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This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-08
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No mere history of applied linguistics, this volume presents a framework for interpreting the development of applied linguistics as a discipline. It offers a systematic account of how applied linguistics has developed, articulating the philosophical premises that have...
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Springer
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2016-09-05
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This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-05
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This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by changing the location...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-05
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This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative alignment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-05
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The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars adopt a variety of theoretical frameworks and approaches to offer a detailed structural examination of all the individual...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-05
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This volume has its origins in an international conference on emotions organized by the Polish Association for the Study of English and held at the University of Wroclaw in April 2015. In the course of the conference, it became clear that emotions are productively...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-02
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One of the central challenges facing translators of legal texts is the ability to fully understand the requirements of the various legal systems worldwide. In this respect, comparative law plays an important role in legal translation, as it allows for the identification...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-31
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Dieser Band ist aus einer interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung hervorgegangen, die von den Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden des Tübinger Graduiertenkollegs „Ambiguität: Produktion und Rezeption", federführend Nicolas Potysch und Sophia Kuhs, initiiert und geplant wurde. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-29
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This book covers language modeling and automatic speech recognition for inflective languages (e.g. Slavic languages), which represent roughly half of the languages spoken in Europe. These languages do not perform as well as English in speech recognition systems and it...
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Springer
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2016-08-29
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This book discusses current research on learning theories and pedagogical practices in second language acquisition, and tries to bridge the gap between the two. Second language acquisition is perceived as the study of the relationship between input, intake and output in...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-29
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This book is an informed, focused, deep, and creative analysis of the topic of (im)politeness applied to Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel, with in-depth conclusions and analysis about the Matthean Jesus’ (im)politeness.This study utilizes innovative methodological approaches...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-24
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This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years. Using substantial sets of diachronic and synchronic data, it traces the changing status and functions of English in relation to spoken...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-08-24
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This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.S. foreign language deficit negatively impacts national and economic security, business and career prospects. Stein-Smith exposes how individuals are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-24
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This book investigates first language (L1) and second language (L2) use in Chinese university classrooms, focusing on the experiences of four Chinese EFL teachers who were teaching non-English major students at four different proficiency levels. It examines these four...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-23
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Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-20
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Sprachwissenschaft in über 5.000 Einträgen. Den Schwerpunkt bilden grammatische Begriffe aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen der Linguistik wie Phonetik, Morphologie, Syntax und Semantik. Von der historischen Grammatik bis heute sind alle zentralen Begriffe erfasst. Dazu...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-19
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This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English. Metaphor is one of the hot topics in present-day linguistics, with a huge range of research focusing on the systematic connections between different...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-18
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