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This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition. A wide range of topics are covered, including weak-strong exhaustiveness, maximality,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-02
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Social semiotics reveals language?s social meaning ? its structures, processes, conditions and effects ? in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author explores...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book explores the issue of student speech in public schools from a student usability perspective. Student speech is both a challenge and an opportunity in public schools. When school boards and districts craft policy, they do so with US Supreme Court precedents,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one’s sense of self. The author...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, it describes how the English clause system currently behaves, how it has developed over the history of the language, and how the features and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book argues for a view in which processes of dialogue and interaction are taken to be foundational to reasoning, logic, and meaning.This is both a continuation, and a substantial modification, of an inferentialist approach to logic. As such, the book not only...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-24
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This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called “Indradhanush” (rainbow) in Hindi. It delves into the major challenges involved in developing a WordNet in a multilingual country like India, where the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This edited book focuses on the role of different types of pedagogical solutions in the acquisition of the Japanese grammatical system by reviewing, assessing and measuring current theory and research. Findings from this research have implications for the way Japanese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-18
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This book presents research on the instruction of two heritage languages and two foreign languages in Israeli schools. The authors explore language policy and the way languages are studied from the point of view of students, teachers, schools and curricula. Language in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody. The recent revitalization of these models is placed in the larger context of the intellectual lineage that extends from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean phytonyms in lexicography, colonization, history, songs and translation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-12
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Das »Metzler Lexikon Sprache« informiert in rund 5000 Einträgen über das Gesamtgebiet der Sprachwissenschaft und gibt einen Überblick über die Sprachen der Welt - illustriert durch vierfarbige Sprachkarten. Den Schwerpunkt bilden grammatische Begriffe aus den...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Sprachpflege, Sprachnorm und Sprachpurismus... Begriffe wie diese verbinden wir unmittelbar mit dem Französischen, das von der Renaissance ausgehend in verschiedenen Etappen — zunächst durch Sprachausbau, später durch die präskriptive Definition des bon usage — zu einer...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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Bei der Klassifizierung von Adjektiven sind zahlreiche Varianten möglich. Eine grobe Einteilung in lexikalisch-semantischer Hinsicht ist die Unterscheidung von Qualitäts- und Relationsadjektiven. Sowohl im Deutschen als auch im Französischen und Russischen scheint diese...
Editeur :
innsbruck university press
Parution :
2016-09-29
Collection :
Studien des Interdisziplinären Frankreich-Schwerpunkts
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This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and beyond. In 19 chapters, it explores cases from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-27
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This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings. The book explores six case studies of women leaders, three in UK companies and three in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-09-20
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