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This book explores the issues and concerns many language teachers have in not just helping able students to learn a foreign or second language but more importantly how to get reluctant learners to become interested in language learning. Tin proposes ‘interest’ as an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-13
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This book is to date the first monograph-length study of the popular American political TV series House of Cards. It proposes an encompassing analysis of the first three seasons from the unusual angles of discourse and dialogue. The study of the stylistic idiosyncrasies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-12
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This book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement system of Archi, an endangered Nakh-Daghestanian language. Even straightforward agreement examples are puzzling for syntacticians...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-11
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Lesen und deuten von Runeninschriften. Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die Runeninschriften (bzw. über die Verwendung von Runen in Handschriften) vom 3. nachchristlichen Jahrhundert bis in das späte Mittelalter. Der Autor führt in die Voraussetzungen zur Lesung und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-10
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Sammlung Metzler
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This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-09
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Sprachwissenschaft in rund 5.000 Einträgen. Den Schwerpunkt des Lexikons bilden grammatische Begriffe aus den verschiedenen sprachwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wie Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax und Semantik. Aber auch Fachtermini aus der Historischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-05
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"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world." Observer*Does language reflect...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-08-04
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal syntactic and morphological theory.This volume proposes that words in Palauan are not drawn directly from a mental lexicon,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-01
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This book demonstrates how foreign language textbook analysis can inform future materials development to improve foreign language teaching. Through chronological analysis of French textbooks in the United States, this book explores the representations of Canada and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-30
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This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-29
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This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests. While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate diverse...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-28
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This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-26
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This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry. In particular, the book is divided into three parts, each one addressing one of the following topics:
1) Facing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-16
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This volume surveys the current debate on the morphome, bringing together experts from different linguistic fields--morphology, phonology, semantics, typology, historical linguistics--and from different theoretical backgrounds, including both proponents and critics of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-15
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This book investigates the three pivotal points of
text for foreign language acquisition: reception, construction and deconstruction. In
Part One, the focus is on various aspects of text reception, such as developing
literacy, text interest, and perceptions of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-28
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Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-23
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This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of “translation” as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-22
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In this thesis, the author makes several contributions to the
study of design of graphical materials. The thesis begins with a review of the
relationship between design and aesthetics, and the use of mathematical models
to capture this relationship. Then, a novel method...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-20
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Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize
Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize
A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-16
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-15
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