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This edited book seeks to bridge a gap in the existing literature on nouns, by exploring the exact relationship between their formal and semantic characteristics. The introductory chapter offers a thorough state of the art on the morphosyntactic and semantic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-21
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Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos. We now use words like “zenith”, “Monday”, “disaster”, “dog days”, “starfish”, “lunatic”, flu, and so many others, without a second thought for their...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-21
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There is no denying that linguistic contrasts between languages can have an impact on the learning of foreign languages, and there is no doubt that an awareness of the differences between the mother tongue (L1) and the foreign or second language being learnt (L2) can...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2024-03-21
Collection :
Collection Karoli
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This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the first UK COVID-19 lockdown affected public reading habits. The authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-20
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This book investigates language choices in different domains among Syrian Arab Muslim families who came to Malaysia after war broke out in their country. It focuses on how Syrian Heritage Language (HL), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Classical Arabic (CA), and other...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-11
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This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean. Drawing from Critical Discourse and stylistic analyses, the book's wide-ranging chapters examine language as it is produced within the complex demographic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-05
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This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to existing paradigms such as Steven Krashen's Natural Approach, and Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach. It begins by analysing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-05
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The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes is the first reference work of its kind to describe both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast Asia (SEA). Since the arrival of English traders to Southeast Asia in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-03
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Entstehen Redensarten durch Beobachtung von physiologischen Vorgängen? Wie kommt es, dass Bezeichnungen wie „Hitzkopf“ in zahlreichen nicht verwandten Sprachen vorkommen? Was die Wissenschaft erst seit kurzem entdeckt hat, ist vom Volk schon lange...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-02
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This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-01
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This book is a study of the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian. The definite article is a suffix in all of these languages, but nominal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-01
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This book explores the linguistic landscape of various cities in China, systematically examining the intricate relationship among language policy, language ideologies, and visible multilingualism in the public space. Framed in the spatial triad encompassing spatial...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-25
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This book serves as a definitive reference for the inverse morphology of the Algonquian languages, which has attracted much attention in typological and theoretical linguistics. Will Oxford describes the patterning of inverse morphology across the Algonquian family and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-20
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This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression. The book has two major purposes: the first is to enhance understanding of the phatic communication...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-16
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This volume explains how scientometrics can be used in understanding the research studies in applied linguistics and will assist applied linguists to examine different aspects of the research performed in their field. The book covers a...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-02-07
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For over sixty years, researchers from across the world have been collaborating in a vast endeavour within what is known as “generative linguistics”, to describe human languages. The founding question of this research is related to the unlimited nature of linguistic...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2024-02-06
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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Infolge der pragmatischen Wende in der Germanistik werden die Arbeitsweisen der linguistischen Dialog- und Interaktionsforschung zunehmend mit sprachhistorischen Fragestellungen verknüpft – empirische Erkenntnisse zur heutigen gesprochenen Sprache sollen helfen,...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-01-30
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A new edition of the bestselling textbook on discourse analysis, ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and the broader humanities and social sciences Discourse Analysis explains how to collect and analyze spoken, written, and multimodal language....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-01-15
Collection :
Introducing Linguistics
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This volume provides a comprehensive understanding and assessment of language policy in education in Morocco. All aspects related to language policy and the effect on the education sector for more than half a century in Morocco are included in the book....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-11
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This book provides an analysis of acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program based on the phonetic information. Throughout the book, the term ‘polysemous string’ refers to idioms with plausible literal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-01-04
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