Catálogo de libros: Lenguas

50113 Catálogo de libros: Lenguas

  • Lars Saabye Christensen’s Beatles
    Kerstin Ketteman
    This study concerns literary translation strategies, specifically applied to the translation of Beatles - a contemporary Norwegian novel. The novel concerns the cross-cultural impact of the 'Beatles' and the production of culture, and its impact on young people internationally, in a dawning age of mass media. Each of the novel’s four characters identifies with a member of the g...
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    72,94 €

  • Global Englishes in Asian Contexts
    This volume explores the current issues in World Englishes/ELF specifically in relation to the Asian context. The international contributors are all prominent names in the field, taking on a wide variety of issues both in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and address not only the current state of affairs, but the future too. ...
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    134,14 €

  • Boys and Foreign Language Learning
    Anne Pauwels / Jo Dr Carr
    This book examines the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages and is framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling. The core of the book is constructed by boys themselves. Their commentaries raise important issues for language teachers and curriculum planners, bu...
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    134,31 €

  • Globalization and Language in the Spanish Speaking World
    This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently dominant in contact with other languages. But how contested is its hegemony and how far does it threaten other languages? How are these other minoritized languages faring in a world of few strong, global languages? ...
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    134,13 €

  • Capturing Chinese
    Xun Lu
    Finally a book to help you read original Chinese literature. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There is no need to constantly consult a dictionary or look up difficult characters by radical. Historical events, people and places are explained throughout and illustrations recreate the scenes. 3 ...
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    37,41 €

  • The Write to Read
    Lesley J. Roessing
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    46,18 €

  • Interlanguage Pragmatic Development
    Gila A. Schauer
    Gila Schauer’s study of interlanguage pragmatic development in English is situated in the context of studying abroad. It is the first book-length study of a common occurrence worldwide, but one that has not received the focus it deserves. Schauer examines the interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English at a British University over the course of a year. The...
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    297,89 €

  • Spatial Deixis
    Shingo Imai
    This book investigates the semantics of spatialdeixis (e.g., this and that) from a cross-linguisticpoint of view. The objectives are 1) to revealparameters which determine spatial deictic usage, 2)to compare parameters among languages, and 3) toinvestigate parameter dominance. The author lookedinto more than 400 languages and clarified parametersthat have not been fully underst...
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    97,27 €

  • Becoming an Effective EFL Teacher
    Karim Sadeghi
    In educational contexts no learning will take place without the active involvement of the learner. While in many fields the role of a teacher may be supplementary and decorative, in learning a foreign language, the dominant role of the teacher has long been recognized. Over the recent years, there has been some research into desirable qualities of teachers in general, and of fo...
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    60,59 €

  • Isabella Bird
    Maggie Mayhan
    If you open an anthology of travel writing-particularly women’s travel writing-you arebound to find an excerpt by Isabella Bird. However,while Isabella Lucy Bird is much celebrated fortraveling the globe, challenging convention, andbecoming the first woman to gain admission into theRoyal Geographical Society, little attention has beenpaid to the progression of her costume chang...
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    60,30 €

  • The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies
    Janet Maybin / Joan Swann
    An accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies.  Established knowledge and more recent developments in the field are clearly examined and explained by well-known language specialists from a range of backgrounds. ...
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    199,99 €

  • Who’s Writing This?
    Dan Halpern
    After seeing a new translation of Jorge Luis Borges′s mini-essay 'Borges and I' (included here), Halpern asked numerous writers to muse briefly on 'the fictional persona ′behind the scenes,′' the alter(ed) ego that accompanies creation. He asked some 50 well-known authors-such as Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, William Gass, Czeslaw Milosz, James Michener, Joyce Carol Oates, and ...
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    13,03 €

  • The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies
    Janet Maybin / Joan Swann
    The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. This authoritative collection includes entries written by well-known language specialists from a diverse range of backgrounds who examine and explain established knowledge and recent developments in the field. Covering a wide range of t...
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    51,19 €

  • Knowledge Discovery Enhanced with Semantic and Social Information
    Prior Conceptual Knowledge in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery.- On Ontologies as Prior Conceptual Knowledge in Inductive Logic Programming.- A Knowledge-Intensive Approach for Semi-automatic Causal Subgroup Discovery.- A Study of the SEMINTEC Approach to Frequent Pattern Mining.- Partitional Conceptual Clustering of Web Resources Annotated with Ontology Languages.- The...
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    133,20 €

  • Mandarin Self-Study
    George Kuosing Wu
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    14,85 €

  • We loves it when you be smilin'!
    Richard Grünert
    Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 15 Punkte, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Department of English), course: Grammar in the english foreign language classroom, language: English, abstract: Ebonics is probably the most popular and widespread linguistic phenomena in the world today. This is mainly due to th...
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    20,26 €

  • AN ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF A PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH
    Abebayehu Messele
    This book shows how phonetics in general and acoustic phonetics in particular can be used to diagnose different sorts of speech and voice disorders and suggests ways of remedy. It touches upon different matters ranging from such a general topic as the discussion on neuro-muscular activities involved in speech production to fairly specific topics dealing with the acoustic accoun...
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    60,62 €

  • Memory-Based Language Processing
    Antal van den Bosch / Walter Daelemans
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    57,02 €

  • Reduplication
    Cheryl Zoll / Inkelas Sharon / Sharon Inkelas
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    77,60 €

  • Code-switching
    Penelope Gardner-Chloros
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    78,76 €

  • Forbearance and Compulsion
    Maijastina Kahlos
    Most surveys of religious tolerance and intolerance start from the medieval and early modern period, either passing over or making brief mention of discussions of religious moderation and coercion in Greco-Roman antiquity. Here Maijastina Kahlos widens the historical perspective to encompass late antiquity, examining ancient discussions of religious moderation and coercion in t...
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    287,03 €

  • A SINGULAR VOICE
    Jennifer Gay Albertson
    This two-part book brings a fresh perspective to the often neglected narrative ’you’. It deals with aspects of authorial, psychoanalytical and literary significance in the creation of fiction which draws on personal material confrontational to the writer. The essay ’A Singular Voice’ examines the use of the second person singular personal pronoun as narrator in contemporary f...
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    97,36 €

  • The Topic of Paralysis. Parallels between 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead' as Beginning and Ending of James Joyce’s „Dubliners'
    Jascha Walter
    Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, language: English, abstract: In this essay I want to analyse and compare the two short stories 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead' from James Joyce’s Dubliners, the analysis of the theme of paralysis being a second focus. The first s...
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    26,44 €

  • A Rock Concert for India
    Patricia Chapin
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    18,51 €

  • Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching
    Catherine Elder / Rod Ellis / Shawn Loewen
    This book examines a project that investigated ways of measuring implicit/explicit L2 knowledge, the relationship between the two types of knowledge and language proficiency, and the effect that different types of form-focused instruction had on their acquisition. ...
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    59,56 €

  • The Ugly in Russian Literature
    Inna Tigountsova
    Yurii Mamleev’s 'necrophiliac variant' of the Underground is the starting-point for Tigountsova’s 'third way' in Russian prose. This is an a-Soviet way (neither pro- nor dissident), connected to the paradox of Russian space - which goes on forever, even though every human being seems cramped and stuck away in corners or prison cells. Tigountsova is good with this parameter. As ...
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    93,79 €

  • Propertius
    Camps / Propertius
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    62,03 €

  • Propertius
    Propertius
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    54,38 €

  • Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages
    Michael A. Covington / Michael ACovington
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    54,67 €

  • Universal Grammar and Language Learnability
    Anjum P. Saleemi / Anjum PSaleemi / Saleemi Anjum P.
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    54,65 €