People do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Often, afterward, they apologize. But what makes a successful apology? Why does Joe Biden's 2007 apology for referring to Barack Obama as "articulate and bright" succeed,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-05-01

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Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research offers an alternative theory of listening – as a performative act, or as a relational stance and performance in which listeners ethically engage in an act of learning from others across difference. This...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-05-01

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Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-05-01

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While health care at the end of life is changing, the language for talking about treatment options and patient preferences around the end of life is taking longer to change. This book carefully details the way language shapes decisions around end-of-life care. Using...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-05-01

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This book examines the syntax of Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages within the Principles-and-Parameters framework. It grows out of a collaborative research project on comparative syntax pursued at the Center for Linguistics at Nanzan University from...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-05-01

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For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2014-04-29

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Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. ...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-04-24
Collection : Explorations in Semantics
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Inwieweit vermag das Fernsehen als eine Form der Öffentlichkeit die Ökumene voranzubringen? Über welche Möglichkeiten verfügt die Ökumene, die mediale Kommunikation der Kirchen zu verbessern? Die Arbeit untersucht die Chancen und Risiken ökumenischer Kooperation im...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-23

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Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Mediation als Instrument außergerichtlicher Streitbeilegung. Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung sind die Begrifflichkeiten Mediation und Konflikt und ihre juristische sowie betriebswirtschaftliche Einordnung. Hierbei wird die Mediation von...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-23

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This volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating the ways and means through which culturally-shaped identities are manifested in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of social action. It also looks at possible ways in which...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-22

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Feste strukturieren Zeit, bilden Rhythmen, ordnen Zusammenhänge und ermöglichen Orientierung. Zudem bringen sie die soziale Identität der Feiernden und deren individuelle Emotionen zum Ausdruck. Aber wie formiert sich am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts ein neues Verständnis...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-22

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Das Interesse an Russizismen erreichte seinen Höhepunkt während der Diskussion um das sprachliche Ost-West-Problem, die es in der deutschen Germanistik zwischen 1945 und 1989 gab. Die Bewertung des russischen Spracheinflusses veränderte sich in diesem Zeitraum von einer...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-14

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The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines have long been regarded as the de facto standard for the preparation of digital textual resources in the scholarly research community. For the beginner, they offer a daunting range of possibilities, reflecting the huge range...

Editeur : OpenEdition Press
Parution : 2014-04-11
Collection : Encyclopédie numérique
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‘Latin is "it", the most wonderful "thing". It is mind-enhancing, character-improving, enthralling, exciting, deeply satisfying, and valuable. My solid determination is to spare no pains to do it the justice that its importance demands.’Mr Gwynne, author of the Sunday...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-04-10

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This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-09

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If you teach creative writing or facilitate a writing group, you will want to inspire, inform and encourage would-be writers. This book is a unique, practical resource offering guidance, ideas and exercises to help you do just that. It moves from planning and...

Editeur : How to Books
Parution : 2014-04-03

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What often holds aspiring writers back is the lack of confidence to get started. How do I structure my story? How do I bring my characters to life and make them believable? How do I write convincing dialogue? In this dip-into book a professional, award-winning writer...

Editeur : How to Books
Parution : 2014-04-03

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For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang – the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom – producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, that have been recognised as the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-03

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In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements play an important role as theoretical abstractions in both phonology and syntax. Yet...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-04-03

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This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2014-04-02

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