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This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan. Adpositions are an almost...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-04-29
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How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-31
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Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-03-30
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'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX BELLOS___________________________________'Language is mankind's greatest invention - except...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2010-03-30
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This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition. Perception verbs - such as look, see, taste, hear, feel,...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-03-25
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This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries....
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OUP Oxford
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2010-03-25
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This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries....
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OUP Oxford
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2010-03-25
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This book is about language that is designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Ciphers and codes conceal messages and protect secrets. Symbol and magic hide meanings to delight or imperil. Languages made to baffle and confuse let insiders talk openly without being...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-03-25
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This book is about language that is designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Ciphers and codes conceal messages and protect secrets. Symbol and magic hide meanings to delight or imperil. Languages made to baffle and confuse let insiders talk openly without being...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-03-25
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The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century. Focuses on public address as both a subject...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2010-03-25
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Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Since the introduction of radio and television news, journalism has gone through multiple transformations, but each time it has been sustained by a commitment to basic values and best practices.
Journalism Ethics is a reminder, a defense and an elucidation of core...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-17
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New Media for aNew China is a timely introduction to the current state of the mass media in China and it’s growing role in the 21st Century global communication system Brings together an international cast of scholars to analyse the diverse roles of China’s media,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-03-16
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Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-12
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A foundational text on media, propaganda and democracy.First published in 1988 and still startlingly relevant, Manufacturing Consent lays bare the economic and political forces that influence mass media. In this seminal work, linguist Noam Chomsky and economist Edward...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-03-11
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'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' Pam Ayres__________________________________________Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy?Do you know how to recognise a...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-03-04
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Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-25
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This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. Leading scholars explore the division of labour between syntax, compositional semantics, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-02-25
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The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van Craenenbroeck argues that both the PF-deletion and the pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-02-22
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All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers all themajor areas of historical linguistics,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-02-18
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This book, abundantly illustrated with examples, very clearly presents the evolution of Arab writing styles, and particularly shines light on the importance of materials used; both media and instruments, as well as the difficulties that needed resolving when printing...
Editeur :
Atelier Perrousseaux
Parution :
2010-02-15
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