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This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This book’s innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes. It uses robust theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate the specificity of language used by teachers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-15
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This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences. Using English-language press coverage of inflammatory comments made by Nicolas Sarkozy in his role as French interior minister in 2005 as a case...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-14
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Improve your English grammar You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using proper English language and grammar. The ability to articulate and communicate effectively is a valuable asset in all aspects of life. From writing a research paper to giving a...
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For Dummies
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2018-03-09
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This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological perspective, studies...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into central aspects of clause structure and word order, outlining the different stages of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary,...
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Springer
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2018-03-08
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This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-06
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How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship. But, how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow?How well do they serve citizens?eBased on original research as well...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-03-02
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Contemporary Political Communication
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This book is the first comprehensive comparative-historical survey of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb which appear to be 'autonomously morphological': although they can be shown to be persistent through time, they have long ceased to be conditioned by any...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-02
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This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea. South Korea is regarded as a shining example of success in educational achievement and, as this book reveals, pressurised standardised testing has been a major...
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Springer
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2018-02-26
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This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak),...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-24
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This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-23
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This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-22
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This book demonstrates how foreign language self-esteem (FLSE) affects foreign language (L2) learning and teaching, and how it fluctuates with growing proficiency. Further, it explains the interaction between FLSE and a range of factors of recognized importance in...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-22
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This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-02-19
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Eva Schneider untersucht mögliche kulturelle Bildungsprozesse im Unterrichtsdiskurs einer gymnasialen Lerngruppe im bilingualen Politikunterricht zum Lehrstück Dorfgründung von Petrik. Kulturelle Bildungsprozesse konzeptualisiert die Autorin in einer Zusammenführung von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-16
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Small Talk ist der gekonnte Start, um erfolgreiche Verbindungen zu Menschen zu knüpfen. Egal ob privat, auf Messen, beim Geschäftsessen, auf der Reise oder beim Vorstellungsgespräch: Wenn andere Sie mögen, öffnen sich Ihnen viele neue Möglichkeiten. Worüber aber reden,...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-02-15
Collection :
Für Dummies
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This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues. The book presents a collection of longitudinal studies drawing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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