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Swearing is an art form, and with this handy collection of obscenities you can be the Picasso of profanity. Bursting with obnoxious insults and filthy names for unmentionable acts, The Little Book of Rude Words will leave you shocked and tickled by how creatively crude...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-06-09
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Language Between Description and Prescription is an empirical, quantitative and qualitative study of nineteenth-century English grammar writing, and of nineteenth-century language change. Based on 258 grammar books from Britain and North America, the book investigates...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-24
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This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-24
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This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects. Employing sociocultural perspectives on examining professional practices of in-service teachers, it examines the complexities of negotiating beliefs,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-23
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This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly
new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can
be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural
environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-23
Collection :
Second Language Learning and Teaching
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The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers.The results of its deliberations were published for general consumption in a series of pamphlets called Broadcast...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-20
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Scientific English is possibly the most rewarding area of EFL teaching. It differs from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as it is directed to a much smaller audience: PhD and postdoc students. Courses onScientific English are held in universities throughout the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-19
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With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-19
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This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-18
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This book summarizes the results a three-year longitudinal project on Mandarin development among children of Indonesian mothers, the second largest non-Mandarin speaking immigrant group in Taiwan. These children were acquiring their first language while interacting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-14
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Negli ultimi anni Searle ha prodotto una teoria che delinea le caratteristiche fondamentali della realtà sociale in cui viviamo e degli oggetti che ne fanno parte. Questo libro espone con chiarezza straordinaria le posizioni di Searle e permette di seguirne gli...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
Scuola di Alta Formazione Filosofica
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This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on
the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual
English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the
language learning experiences of five Asian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-09
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This book provides an overview of phonological typology: the study of how sounds are distributed across the languages of the world and why they display these distributions and patterns. It examines major phonological phenomena such as phoneme inventories, syllable...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-06
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Writing centers are complex. They are places of scholarly work, spaces of interdisciplinary interaction, and programs of service, among other things. With this complexity in mind, this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-05-05
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In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-03
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This book is a practical and insightful guide for new MA TESOL students, providing information that will shape their expectations of the field and of their program. It discusses foundational information about the profession, as well as discussion and guidance regarding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more on ideological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
Collection :
Language and Globalization
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Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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This collection gathers contributions from scholars from Poland and abroad addressing different facets of research into the processes of foreign-language and second-language learning and teaching as they transpire in a typical language classroom. The book is divided...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-30
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