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The vocabulary of wine is large and exceptionally vibrant -- from straight-forward descriptive words like "sweet" and "fragrant", colorful metaphors like "ostentatious" and "brash", to the more technical lexicon of biochemistry.The world of wine vocabulary is growing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-08
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This is a history of the great language controversy that has occupied and empassioned Greeks - sometimes with fatal results - for over two hundred years. It begins in the late eighteenth-century when a group of Greek intellectuals sought to develop a new, Hellenic,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-04-02
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Public Internet discussion forums offer opportunities for intercultural interaction in many languages on a vast range of topics, but are often overlooked by language educators in favour of purpose-built exchanges between learners. The book investigates this untapped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-31
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The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-26
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The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that: "'Blog' is a syllable whose time...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2009-03-25
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With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-03-19
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This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-12
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This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program. Leading linguists and promising young scholars from all over the world focus on two...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-03-12
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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education. Explores the field of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
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The Language Library
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Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-06
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Master the essentials of the English language and write with greater confidence.
Editeur :
How to Books
Parution :
2009-02-27
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Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most anthropologists and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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Language in Cognition argues that language is based on the human construal of reality. Humans refer to and quantify over virtual entities with the same ease as they do over actual entities: the natural ontology of language, the author argues, must therefore comprise...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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This diverse collection of gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction explores how gender is reflected and accomplished in relation to other situational and larger-scale sociocultural practices, identities and structures.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-12
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The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-12
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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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