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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-18
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This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-16
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Provides an international and management perspective on the field of corporate communication Corporate communication plays an important role in higher-level management to help build and preserve a company’s reputation. This intangible yet valuable asset determines the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-10-16
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New diversity style guide helps journalists write with authority and accuracy about a complex, multicultural world A companion to the online resource of the same name, The Diversity Style Guide raises the consciousness of journalists who strive to be accurate. Based on...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-10-15
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Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room....
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Springer
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2018-10-09
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This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense,...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-06
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Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
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Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling? You'll love this hilarious and definitive guide to 21st century language from grammar-guru Gyles Brandreth'Brilliant, clear, entertaining, very funny and often outright silly. Brandreth excels . . . in all his...
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Penguin
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2018-10-04
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'A brilliant way to learn a new language.... a good read as well as improving my Italian' Reader reviewShort Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most...
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Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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Readers
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in English for Beginners has...
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Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Spanish for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in German for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2018-10-04
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Russian for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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This volume offers empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment of practical action, and its significance within different domains of social life-school, education, diasporic families and communities,...
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Springer
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2018-10-04
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Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-10-04
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Why It Matters
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash of Janet Malcolm' VogueFrom its opening journey into...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-10-02
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This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices. It brings together research by leading international experts to examine methods and approaches, multimodality, face and identity, across five...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-29
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A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING) 'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig Brown Advanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few.A symphony can be enjoyed, but...
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Penguin
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2018-09-27
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Die Wahl der „richtigen“ Ausgangsschriften zum Schreibenlernen wird nicht nur in der Grundschulpädagogik, sondern auch öffentlich viel diskutiert. Eva Odersky untersucht, wie sich diese Schriften während der Grundschulzeit weiterentwickeln. Im Rahmen einer empirischen...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-20
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This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-19
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