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This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book presents an innovative exploration of linguistic prefabrication in the travel advertising discourse from a functional perspective. Most of the previous studies on prefabricated language have adopted a structural, systematic point of view.This study, however,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-21
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This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-20
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This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. It offers an explicit and detailed analysis of differential object marking in Hungarian, and shows that the same...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-17
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From the Private First Class who knows his place (above a Private but below a Lance Corporal), to the classification of the natural world (Species, Genus, Family, Order . . .), we introduce hierarchies, pecking orders and ranks to every aspect of our lives, from society...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK. It challenges the view that vocabulary strategies result only from learners’ cognitive choices, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of “self-identity” and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for administrative use...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-15
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This book studies Chinese opposites. It uses a large corpus (GigaWord) to trace the behavior of opposite pairings’ co-occurrence, focusing on the following questions: In what types of constructions, from window-size restricted and bi-syllabic to quad-syllabic, will the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-15
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As the tricolor rose over revolutionary France, language, with its ability to define ideals and allegiances, was both a threat to authority and weapon to be wielded. In the early years of the Republic, the Académie Française, the royal body responsible for the French...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-15
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This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-14
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An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-11-14
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This book shows how Shakespeare’s excellence as storyteller, wit and poet reflects the creative process of conceptual blending. Cognitive theory provides a wealth of new ideas that illuminate Shakespeare, even as he illuminates them, and the theory of blending, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
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Bartosz Wilczek untersucht am Beispiel der Newsroom-Konvergenz in zwei führenden Schweizer Medienunternehmen, wie sich veränderte Marktbedingungen auf die Qualität des digitalen Journalismus auswirken. Der Autor entwickelt ein organisationsökonomisches Framework, das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-10
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This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse a wide range of teaching and learning contexts,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-10
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How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region?How are our conversations and other interactions structured?How does society view and regulate language?How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-09
Collection :
Linguistics in the World
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This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia—abundance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-08
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This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book employs the realm of English Language Teaching (ELT) as a discursive point of departure to explore how individuals, groups, entities and institutions apprehend, embrace, deal with, manipulate, problematize and resist glocal flows of people, ideas, information,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-11-02
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