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This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act. The author establishes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-20
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This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-20
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Dieses Lexikon informiert über die Grundlagen, Praxiskontexte und Forschungsfelder des Lehrens und Lernens von Sprachen. Es umfasst Begriffe aus der Sprach-, Kultur-, Literatur- und Mediendidaktik und ist insbesondere für die Schulfremdsprachen in Deutschland sowie für...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-02-14
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This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages. Almost all languages...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-12
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This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public.This book is based on a pilot project funded by the Aston...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-07
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This book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision. Theoretically, this research provides a better understanding of students’ metacognitive knowledge about revision and their self-efficacy for text revision in EFL writing; such...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-05
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This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-31
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This book provides a detailed description and a cross-dialectal comparison of the major dialects of Myanmar. The fieldwork was carried out under very difficult conditions in Myanmar, which makes this material all the more valuable. Chapter 1 provides...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-31
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This book contains a comprehensive view of pragmalinguistic studies and their recent ramifications, boasting some of the most advanced recent research in pragmatics. Organised into three sections—pragmalinguistics, social pragmatics, and cognitive-inferential...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-29
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In Dimensions of Linguistic Variation, the contributors investigate evidence for the myriad factors which influence language variation and change, and consider how to best account for these factors in data and metadata coding. Given linguists' increasing ability to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-22
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
ThisVery Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book offers an academic dialogue between news values construction and readers' evaluative response in Weibo news package from the interpersonal perspective. The study focuses on the under-researched field of news reception, i.e. how the media-reader relationship...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-07
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This open-access book presents standards which were developed by the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China (PPLRC).
At present, China is home to some of the world’s richest language resources. However, in the course of globalization and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-06
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This book provides educators (including but not limited to those at university level) with data-driven insights into video-mediated interaction. Drawing on extensive research on classroom interaction from a variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-06
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This is an open access book.
The English language stands as a pivotal tool for fostering international dialogue, facilitating the acquisition of scientific and technological knowledge, propelling economic growth, and enabling participation in global competition. Its...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-31
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The book is a comprehensive typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and other languages worldwide, focusing on the grammaticalization pathways through which conjunctions emerge. Utilizing an extensive database of coordinating conjunctions,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-31
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This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America. Speech data from naturally-occurring conversations by 56 children and adults of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-26
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This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of bilingualism and multilingualism with focus on education. It compiles various sub-themes such as minority and majority languages, childhood bilingualism, and the historical aspects of bilingualism. Each...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
ThisVery Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-24
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This book presents a cutting-edge overview of the language models of in phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, proposed to underlie language phenotypes across aphasic syndromes, as well as the potential applications of linguistic theory to advance therapeutic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-23
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