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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century, the date of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-03
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Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs. Full...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-02
Collection :
Language in Society
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English medium-of-instruction (EMI) is transforming modern-day universities across the globe, creating increasingly complex linguistic and intercultural realities which lecturers, students and decision-makers must negotiate. Teaching subject matter at higher-education...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Sprechstimme im Kontext von Musik und Sprache. Erstmalig wird das Phänomen des Sprechgesangs am Beispiel computergestützter Analysen dargestellt. Eine systematische Betrachtung der Notation der Sprechstimme in zeitgenössischen...
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Springer VS
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2016-02-25
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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization that classifies languages as either 'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed'. In verb-framed languages, such as those of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This volume gathers researchers from around the world endeavouring to better understand a number of perennial issues in assessing Chinese learners of English, covering topics such as students' test performances, interactional competence and lexical knowledge, students'...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-17
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The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizing principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify a wide range of lexical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-29
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This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-28
Collection :
Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
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The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings. The authors re-examine Wittgenstein’s fundamental insights into the workings of human linguistic behaviour, its creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local people was essential to the success of the missions. This book explains how the Alliance responded to this challenge so...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-20
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This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-19
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The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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