Catálogo de libros: Lenguas

50113 Catálogo de libros: Lenguas

  • Thanks, But This Isn’t for Us
    Jessica Page Morrell
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    22,52 €

  • Divination Machine
    F. Daniel Rzicznek / FDaniel Rzicznek
    F. Daniel Rzicznek is a shapeshifter of poets-sometimes a watchful heron, sometimes a wheeling hawk, sometimes a gliding owl, and always an exquisitely observant crow. Poetry, he says, is a paranormal event. DIVINATION MACHINE makes the case. -Djelloul Marbrook We have confessional poets, who write about themselves; nature poets, who write about place; experimental poets, who ...
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    17,56 €

  • Under the Quick
    Molly Bendall
    In Molly Bendall’s fourth book of poems, the verbal underworld of doing and undoing-oath, love charm, prayer, curse-becomes a refuge of tenderness and malediction. One of her generation’s most subtly imaginative poets, Bendall overhears-and whispers to the reader-a lost language which is by turns brainy and promiscuous, clueless and inscrutable, bewitching and bereft: a voice s...
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    17,49 €

  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality
    Ruth Page
    This study investigates the richly diverse but integrated semiotic potential of storytelling. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies which have privileged the study of words in storytelling, this unique collection provides a much needed analysis of how narrative operates using combinations of visual, typographic, aural, gestural and haptic resources. Alt...
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    268,06 €

  • Bilingual Education in the US
    Renard Teipelke
    Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, course: Oral and Writing Skills, language: English, abstract: On the introductory historical basis, the role of bilingual education, with focus on English as a second language for Hispanic children in school, will be presented in this ...
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    22,04 €

  • The Meaning Makers
    C. Gordon Wells / CGordon Wells
    The Meaning Makers traces the language and literacy development of a large, representative sample of children from age 1 to 10, quoting liberally from observations made at home and at school. Setting the findings of the study in the context of recent research, it offers suggestions for improving children’s opportunities for learning. ...
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    41,34 €

  • Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops
    Nicoline van der Sijs
    In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson River. To this day, American children are taught the thrilling history of the transformation of this settlement, New Netherland, and its capital, New Amsterdam, from landmark port into present-day New York State and the island of Man...
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    37,58 €

  • Almost Madam President
    Nichola D Gutgold / Nichola D. Gutgold / Nichola DGutgold
    This book takes the reader on a rhetorical journey through Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, focusing on Clinton’s sophisticated ’You Tube’ style announcement speech, the debates, and the many notable stump speeches and media events on the campaign trail. Along the way Gutgold examines the obstacles and opportunities of women as presidential candidates. ...
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    62,99 €

  • The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
    George Sand and Gustave Flaubert / A. L. McKenzie / ALMcKenzie
    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters is a compilation of personal correspondence between two great nineteenth century French writers and contemporaries. The letters reveal often divergent but always profound, effervescent, and fascinating views on art, literature, drama, philosophy, culture, and gossip of the period: an unparalleled window into history, and a rare interior ...
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    40,54 €

  • The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
    George Sand and Gustave Flaubert / A. L. McKenzie / ALMcKenzie
    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters is a compilation of personal correspondence between two great nineteenth century French writers and contemporaries. The letters reveal often divergent but always profound, effervescent, and fascinating views on art, literature, drama, philosophy, culture, and gossip of the period: an unparalleled window into history, and a rare interior ...
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    27,60 €

  • Almost Madam President
    Nichola D Gutgold / Nichola D. Gutgold / Nichola DGutgold
    This book takes the reader on a rhetorical journey through Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, focusing on Clinton’s sophisticated ’You Tube’ style announcement speech, the debates, and the many notable stump speeches and media events on the campaign trail. Along the way Gutgold examines the obstacles and opportunities of women as presidential candidates. ...
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    132,20 €

  • Language Acquisition
    Susan Foster-Cohen
    Language learners come in all sizes. Children learn one language; they learn many. Older children and adults add languages. Some children learn language against the odds, faced as they are by developmental difficulties of many kinds. How do learners meet these different language acquisition challenges?What role does the ability to read the minds of others play in the developmen...
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    133,60 €

  • Quantitative Methods in Sociolinguistics
    Ronald Macaulay
    This detailed textbook critically examines methods used in sociolinguistc studies, including the ways in which the categories of age, gender, ethnicity and social class have been employed to chart language variation. It discusses the nature of data and encourages students to examine the evidence with a more critical eye. ...
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    193,95 €

  • ESL Learners’ Learning Styles
    ROSNIAH MUSTAFFA
    When students moved to tertiary education, they need to adapt to diverse teaching methods and therefore need to have the ability to adapt to the teachers’ various teaching techniques and styles. This is especially true when it comes to the two major teaching modes at tertiary level namely listening to lectures and giving presentations. As such, some mismatching by using auditor...
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    97,31 €

  • Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
    Anne Mette
    Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Anglistik), course: Proseminar 'Start Spreading the News': New York and Early Modernism, language: English, abstract: Never conventional, never following the rules of any given norm, but in contrast, making ironic stateme...
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    23,04 €

  • A Handbook of Lexicography
    Bo Svensén
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    109,32 €

  • The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics
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    237,81 €

  • A Handbook of Lexicography
    Bo Svensén
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    191,59 €

  • Example-based Machine Translation
    Stefanie Dietzel
    Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Marburg (Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Human Language Technologies, language: English, abstract: Machine Translation has more and more become an essential method to assist or even replace human translators. The necessity of developing useful co...
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    22,04 €

  • Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics
    Alfio Gliozzo / Carlo Strapparava
    Semantic fields are lexically coherent - the words they contain co-occur in texts. In this book the authors introduce and define semantic domains, a computational model for lexical semantics inspired by the theory of semantic fields. Semantic domains allow us to exploit domain features for texts, terms and concepts, and they can significantly boost the performance of natural-la...
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    133,24 €

  • Academic Evaluation
    This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others’ work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others’ ideas, argue their own viewpoints, and establish academic credibility. ...
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    134,09 €

  • Academic Evaluation
    Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres; K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics; D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World; J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems; P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces ...
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    132,74 €

  • A Student’s Guide to the MA TESOL
    Nancy Bell
    Beginning a graduate program in TESOL can be a daunting prospect, as students encounter not only a great deal of new information, but also new ways of thinking, writing, and interacting. Many of the expectations are implicit, and it is often not until they are well into their program that many students begin to feel at ease. By making norms and expectations for professional and...
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    65,49 €

  • Women, Writing, and Soul-Making
    Peggy Tabor Millin
    Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine moves the reader to quiet depths, affirming what it is to embody and then write down one's truth. At once informative and inspirational, the book reveals its wisdom in layers, inviting the reader to return to it again and again. Millin delivers the profound message that women have access to a feminine approach ...
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    10,66 €

  • Politics & Rhetoric
    G. Yoos
    Since we need words with new meanings to discover what is true, it follows that without those words there could be no truth as we know it. Without just those words that we create there would be no knowledge for us. In that case knowledge is found embedded in the very words that we formulate. Interpretation and definition as rhetorical and logical modes are interactive in determ...
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    65,16 €

  • The Essential Picture Dictionary
    Awil Hashi
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    58,67 €

  • Creating Juicy Tales
    June Gillam
    Many writers hope to create compelling stories but may fail to build effective conflict or tension among their characters, thus causing readers to drift away. To improve their practice of writing dramatic narrative, seven middle-class American white women journey through the process of Cooperative Inquiry-a qualitative rese...
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    97,53 €

  • The Rise, Progress, And Present Structure Of The English Language (1856)
    Matthew Harrison
    ''The Rise, Progress, and Present Structure of the English Language'' is a comprehensive study of the English language written by Matthew Harrison and originally published in 1856. The book covers the history of the English language from its earliest roots to its current state, exploring the influences of Latin, Greek, and other languages on its development. Harrison discusses ...
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    39,61 €

  • The Latin Element In Welsh (1908)
    Samuel James Evans
    The Latin Element In Welsh is a book written by Samuel James Evans and published in 1908. It is a linguistic study that explores the influence of the Latin language on the Welsh language. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of the Latin influence on Welsh. The first chapter provides an overview of the historical context of Lati...
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    22,67 €

  • Relative Efficiency Of Phonetic Alphabets
    Guy Montrose Whipple
    ''Relative Efficiency Of Phonetic Alphabets: An Experimental Investigation Of The Comparative Merits Of The Webster Key Alphabet (1911)'' is a book written by Guy Montrose Whipple. The book is an experimental study that compares the effectiveness of different phonetic alphabets, with a focus on the Webster Key Alphabet. The author conducts a series of experiments to determine t...
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    21,87 €