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"What might have been a forbidding chronological slog is thoroughly enlivened by Conboy's thematic approach, shot through with passion and rigour in equal measure. This is a book written with a commitment to the importance of history for the present; it will undeniably...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-14
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A set of easy to use techniques helps students discover for themselves how grammar works in real world contexts and how grammatical choices are not just about form but about meaning. Sample teaching ideas, covering a wide range of grammatical topics including verb...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-14
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Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-13
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Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works. A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentence structure,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-13
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Learn British Sign Language quickly and easily with this essential guide and CD-Rom This lively guide introduces the key hand shapes and gestures you need to communicate in British Sign Language. The illustrations depict both the actions and facial expressions used to...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2010-12-13
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Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, Wee demonstrates how the appeal to language...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-12-10
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An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-07
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Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
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This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known appearance in Ancient Egypt to the present day.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-30
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An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-24
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Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights ofDeaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson, and Paddy Ladd...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-24
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Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Millions of people have come to America seeking a different life than the one they had in their home country. The storied lives of these immigrants fill copious volumes of literature, each volume with its own interpretation of history. In documenting the history of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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In diesem Überblick werden grundlegende, aber dennoch über die Zeiten sehr unterschiedliche explizit oder implizit sprachwissenschaftliche Herangehensweisen an die Kategorie «Stil» nachvollziehbar. Insofern kann der Band auch als Einführung in die Stilproblematik...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-12
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke.It was even the first word spoken on the moon.It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-08
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Das Internet ist das Massenmedium Nummer eins. Es vereint in sich die tradierten Formen des Rundfunks, Film und Fernsehens und der klassischen Druckerzeugnisse. Alle Möglichkeiten von Verletzungen der Persönlichkeit, die bereits in diesen Medien auftraten und bekannt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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In dieser Arbeit werden die Mediation und die systemische Therapie mit ihren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen dargestellt und verglichen. Zudem wird eine praktische Methode entwickelt, in der bestimmte systemische Therapietechniken in die Mediation integriert werden, um besser...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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Die Welt der elektronischen Medien befindet sich in ständigem Wandel. Immer neue Angebote erscheinen und führen zu einer schnellen Veränderung von althergebrachten Nutzungsmodellen.Die technische Entwicklung führt zu immer weiter konvergierenden Medien.Die rechtliche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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