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Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize
Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize
A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-16
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This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-15
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-06-15
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Swearing is an art form, and with this handy collection of obscenities you can be the Picasso of profanity. Bursting with obnoxious insults and filthy names for unmentionable acts, The Little Book of Rude Words will leave you shocked and tickled by how creatively crude...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-06-09
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This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. Requests for carrying out little jobs-passing some object or fetching items from the next room -are...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-03
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For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders’ debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-06-03
Collection :
Contemporary Political Communication
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Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-05-26
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A collection of twenty-one essays by David Bartholomae, Writing on the Margins includes selections that have helped shape the discipline of composition studies. With a wide-ranging introduction and three retrospective postscripts to set the essays in context, it serves...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-24
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This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-24
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This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-24
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This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects. Employing sociocultural perspectives on examining professional practices of in-service teachers, it examines the complexities of negotiating beliefs,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-23
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This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly
new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can
be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural
environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-23
Collection :
Second Language Learning and Teaching
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This book investigates the characteristics of hybridity in Chinese texts that have been translated from English. It also explores the potential impact of translation and hybridity on written Chinese over the past 70 years. It suggests that English-Chinese translations...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-20
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The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers.The results of its deliberations were published for general consumption in a series of pamphlets called Broadcast...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-20
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Scientific English is possibly the most rewarding area of EFL teaching. It differs from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as it is directed to a much smaller audience: PhD and postdoc students. Courses onScientific English are held in universities throughout the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-19
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With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-19
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This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-18
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This book summarizes the results a three-year longitudinal project on Mandarin development among children of Indonesian mothers, the second largest non-Mandarin speaking immigrant group in Taiwan. These children were acquiring their first language while interacting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-14
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Die in diesem Band vereinigten Beiträge nehmen Bezug auf Forschungsgegenstände der Germanistik und angewandten Sprachwissenschaft, insbesondere der Morphologie, Syntax, Phraseologie, der Text- und Diskurslinguistik sowie der Translations- und Literaturwissenschaft.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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