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This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one’s sense of self. The author...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-27
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Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book centers on the study of the morphology and syntax of the two major Romance Languages spoken in Latin America from this...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning.This is both a continuation, and a substantial modification, of an inferentialist approach to logic. As such, the book not only...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-24
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Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can't be identified - LBJ (the letters stand for Little Brown Job)? Or that...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called “Indradhanush” (rainbow) in Hindi. It delves into the major challenges involved in developing a WordNet in a multilingual country like India, where the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This edited book focuses on the role of different types of pedagogical solutions in the acquisition of the Japanese grammatical system by reviewing, assessing and measuring current theory and research. Findings from this research have implications for the way Japanese...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-18
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The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity in a variety of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-14
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Studierende der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover gehen in 18 Interviews mit namhaften deutschen Musikkritikerinnen und -kritikern – darunter Volker Hagedorn, Markus Kavka, Claus Spahn, Falk Schacht und andere – der Frage nach, wie sich die Rolle von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools. The authors explore language policy and the way languages are studied from the point of view of students, teachers, schools and curricula. Language in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and translation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-12
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This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, lawyers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of law, communication and arts. The topics include women rights in Turkey, witness statement as evidence in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-07
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Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-05
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Soziale Medien erleichtern es Menschen, Informationen aller Art zu teilen und soziale Beziehungen zu pflegen. Sie sind in den letzten Jahren zu einem wesentlichen Bestandteil der digitalen Kommunikation geworden und verändern die Strukturen gesellschaftlicher...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-05
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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Das »Metzler Lexikon Sprache« informiert in rund 5000 Einträgen über das Gesamtgebiet der Sprachwissenschaft und gibt einen Überblick über die Sprachen der Welt - illustriert durch vierfarbige Sprachkarten. Den Schwerpunkt bilden grammatische Begriffe aus den...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-10-03
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