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Doing Optimality Theory brings together examples and practical, detailed advice for undergraduates and graduate students working in linguistics. Given that the basic premises of Optimality Theory are markedly different from other linguistic theories, this book presents...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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Companion website, featuring additional resources such as sound files, can be found here: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/phonetics/ Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of phonetics, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
Collection :
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-22
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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-22
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Media Industries: History, Theory and Method is among the first texts to explore the evolving field of media industry studies and offer an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis. capitalizes on the current social and cultural environment of unprecedented...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-19
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Bho chionn deich bliadhna fichead, bha cnan agus cultar na Gidhlig, a bha air a bhith iomraiteach ann an Alba airson 1,300 bliadhna, a rir coltais ann an ceumannan deireannach cronadh bsmhor a mhair 200 bliadhna. Bha an ireamh de dhaoine a bhruidhinneadh Gidhlig ann an...
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Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-09-16
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Unravel the mysteries of language with J.P. Davidson's remarkable Planet Word.'The way you speak is who you are and the tones of your voice and the tricks of your emailing and tweeting and letter-writing, can be recognised unmistakably in the minds of those who know and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-09-15
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The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines. Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-15
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Bringing together top listening scholars from a range of disciplines and real world perspectives, Listening and Human Communication in the 21st Century offers a state-of-the-art overview of what we know and think about listening behavior in the 21st century. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
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The Ethical Journalist gives aspiring journalists the tools they need to make responsible professional decisions. Provides a foundation in applied ethics in journalism Examines the subject areas where ethical questions most frequently arise in modern practice...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
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Political Correctness “Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
Collection :
The Language Library
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Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
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Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
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Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
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The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Brings...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Numbers and statistical claims dominate today's news. Politics, budgets, crime analysis, medical issues, and sports reporting all demand numbers. Now in its third edition, News &Numbers focuses on how to evaluate statistical claims in science, health, medicine, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
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This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
Collection :
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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Based on original and previously unseen written and sound archives and interviews with former and current radio producers and presenters, Public Issue Radio addresses the controversial question of the political leanings of current affairs programmes, and asks if...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-02
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African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on howAfrican Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-09-01
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People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past....
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-09-01
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