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This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-06
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This book explores the influence of high stakes standardised testing within the context of South Korea. South Korea is regarded as a shining example of success in educational achievement and, as this book reveals, pressurised standardised testing has been a major...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-26
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This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable...
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Springer
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2018-02-23
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This book demonstrates how foreign language self-esteem (FLSE) affects foreign language (L2) learning and teaching, and how it fluctuates with growing proficiency. Further, it explains the interaction between FLSE and a range of factors of recognized importance in...
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Springer
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2018-02-22
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This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-02-19
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Eva Schneider untersucht mögliche kulturelle Bildungsprozesse im Unterrichtsdiskurs einer gymnasialen Lerngruppe im bilingualen Politikunterricht zum Lehrstück Dorfgründung von Petrik. Kulturelle Bildungsprozesse konzeptualisiert die Autorin in einer Zusammenführung von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-16
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This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues. The book presents a collection of longitudinal studies drawing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of voices and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-12
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In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts. The present volume examines this activity of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-10
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This book presents an innovative teaching experiment and an analytical study of critical thinking and the sociocultural theory of learning to illustrate the cognitive learning development mechanisms. It addresses the issues in developing critical thinking, including...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-02-09
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This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-08
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When data consist of grouped observations or clusters, and there is a risk that measurements within the same group are not independent, group-specific random effects can be added to a regression model in order to account for such within-group associations. Regression...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-07
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This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency. It addresses the urgent need in language related survey research for a comprehensive examination of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-06
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This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike. Analysing a number of different practices throughout the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-02
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This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-01
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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-31
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book provides an overview of a recent and flexible approach to speech synthesis design to develop the first statistical parametric speech synthesizer for Ibibio, a West African tonal language. The design precludes the inflexibility encountered when modeling tonal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-25
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This book focuses on the most commonly made grammar mistakes by non-native English speakers.This means that you can set yourself a reasonable target. So rather than trying to learn all English grammar, just concentrate on those issues that tend to be used the most...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-24
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This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion. Focusing on conditionals, the book defends a wholly pragmatic, wholly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-24
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