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An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-12-08
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This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-12-07
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Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-11-30
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This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known appearance in Ancient Egypt to the present day.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-30
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An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-24
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Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights ofDeaf communities. Renowned contributors such as James Woodward, Yerker Andersson, and Paddy Ladd...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-24
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This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-12
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic structures. Until now, the remarkable progress made in the field of human sentence processing had been...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-05
Collection :
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great...
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Penguin
Parution :
2010-11-04
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This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding double CD.- You can purchase the book and double CD as a pack (ISBN: 9781444107111)- The double CD is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444107128)(copy and paste the ISBN number into the search...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2010-10-29
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The history of translation has focused on literary work but this book demonstrates the way in which political control can influence and be influenced by translation choices. New research and specially commissioned essays give access to existing research projects which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of immigration discourse. It will be of special interest to students and researchers with which to explore new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-20
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The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-13
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Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-13
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-06
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This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways and it argues that the textual construction (and imaging) of English...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-29
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What do the following have in common?
Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles
Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels
They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-23
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What do the following have in common?
Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles
Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels
They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-23
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The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years. This includes research on linguistic micro-variation that is dependent on fine distinctions in syntax and information structure. However,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-09-22
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