Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

15562 Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

  • How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis
    Andrea Mayr / David Machin
    Each chapter presents distinct concepts and ideas in Critical Discourse Analysis, explaining how to use them in your research - and why. Packed with case studies of news texts, social media content, memes, promotional videos, institutional documents, infographics and webpages, the book shows you how to apply each set of tools to real life examples. ...
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    161,84 €

  • Young Scholars in Writing
    Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric publishes research articles written by undergraduates on topics related to rhetoric and writing. Articles integrate secondary sources from the area under investigation and offer primary research conducted by the writer(s) and/or ground inquiry in a defined theoretical framework. Articles make an intellect...
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    44,44 €

  • Globalisation and Linguistic Tendencies in North Africa
    Hichem Aouina
    Investigating the Impacts of Modern Life Style on the Tunisian linguistic profile is, indeed, digging into the role of globalization in shaping Tunisian linguistic situation whether directly or indirectly. This research stands at the intersection of three interconnected fields of research. This multidisciplinary approach is one of the innovatory aspects of this study. The first...
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    94,53 €

  • Positive and Negative Capitalism
    Sebastian Andres Amado
    Both forms of interpersonal meanings, the use of appraisal and the use of irony, take part in an inferential model of communication, in which the right inferences or assumptions on the part of the interlocutor are crucial to the success of communication. This research aims to describe various ways of linguistic realization of interpersonal meanings in language use; the purpose ...
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    41,04 €

  • One Thousand Rules of Everyday English
    Bamidele Ashade
    This book is intended for English non-native speakers around the world, who use English on a daily basis, and need some authoritative and expert support with developing their English communication skills to a formal, conventional, high level. It captures more rules than probably any other texts like it, anywhere around the world, practically addressing communication problems co...
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    142,22 €

  • The two core approaches in English Grammar presentation
    Apbasbek Nazerke Begimbaikyzy
    Since ancient times, language has been the main means by which a human personality expresses itself and satisfies its basic need for social interaction with other people. Even in the modern world where technology has surpassed all the expectations of mankind, language is and remains an important means of communication. The role of international education in modern society is in...
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    60,13 €

  • The Novels of Amitav Ghosh
    Namita Sharma
    Amitav Ghosh is a writer who has embraced almost every genre of fictional and non-fictional writing in English. His span of writing covers history, science fiction, marginalized, post-colonial, feministic approach but with the single motive of bringing to the readers that which has not been discussed so far. Though he is emotionally and professionally bound to his native land, ...
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    126,95 €

  • The Challenge of Subtitling Offensive and Taboo Language into Spanish
    José Javier Ávila-Cabrera
    This book presents a clear and concise guide to understanding the concepts of offensive and taboo language and how this type of language can be subtitled into Spanish for Spain. It includes an array of examples from recent films and TV series as well as exercises which allow the reader to put theory into practice. ...
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    169,97 €

  • Linguistic and Cultural Challenges in Translating Humour
    Dr. Maher Daoud
    This study explores the different types of humour identified in the two comedy plays: Al-Za’eem by Farouk Sabry and Al-Wad Sayed Al-Shaghal by Samir Abdulazim. The humour identified in the two plays posed both cultural and linguistic problems in subtitling as an audiovisual translation domain. The study also investigated the translation strategies employed by the subtitler in o...
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    87,43 €

  • Reimagining the Humanities
    Electracy and Transmedia StudiesSeries Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia HaynesAddressed to digital humanists, Reimagining the Humanities updates our methods for engaging with ideology and technology, drawing on a broad range of practices informed by collective challenges and an ongoing state of crisis. Voices in the collection range from graduate students to established s...
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    44,62 €

  • Soft Hearted !
    Asmaa Baghli
    We have all been through different life experiences. Some of them are good others are inevitable ! Love and Dreams are one of the most common ones ! Not all people find their true honest and pure love easily ! Nor all of them are able to dream especially nowadays. Thus, the following 22 poems are a reflection of a dreaming girl who seeks to live her life peacefully, dreaming of...
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    34,01 €

  • Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
    Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health. ...
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    127,56 €

  • Writing and the Diaspora
    Amara Diabaté
    This study addresses the issue of diasporic writing among writers who are referred to by critics as 'new authors', specifically the Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She shows that Adichie, through a writing of hybrid and subversive character, moves away from the literary codes already established in the literary field. To achieve this, the author uses discursive s...
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    145,00 €

  • Silly Animal Rhymes and Stories
    Anil
    Here are just a few of the Animal Rhyme stories inside:ANOLE LIZARD becomes a Pig.BORZOI Puppy is a riot.CHINCHILLA has a Pet GORILLA. GNUS steal shoes!MOA didn’t make it to Noah’s Ark.TORTOISE dreams of being a Ninja athlete.WHALE ’drops out’ and regrets it.ZINGEL FISH meets Santa in my dreams.About The Author:Anil is a retired biologist who has since been preoccupied with cre...
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    13,84 €

  • Degrees of Markedness of Qur’anic Collocations
    Samah Hassan
    This study investigates the problems of translating marked collocations in the Glorious Qur’an. Four translations have been chosen for this purpose: The Meaning of the Glorious Coran (1970) by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Qur’an (1934) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Koran (1947) by N.J.Dawood and The Qur’an: A New Translation (1999) by M.A.S. Abdel-Hale...
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    111,58 €

  • Effective ways to use songs in teaching English language
    Khadicha Suyarova
    The goal of this research is to employ songs to enhance the needed English abilities in Uzbekistan’s national curriculum, which include grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, as well as vocabulary and pronunciation. The researcher aims to investigate how song lyrics might be used as additional material in handbooks. The findings revealed that song lyrics may be use...
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    70,97 €

  • Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children
    Jieun Kiaer
    This longitudinal study explores young children’s language acquisition in Korean-English multilingual households, investigating how children acquire multiple strategies of verbal and non-verbal communication and use a range of multimodal resources to communicate effectively with members of their family. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Essential problems of literary translation from Uzbek into English
    Sevara Fazildinova
    This monograph studies and looks at the essential peculiarities of translation of classic epic poem from Uzbek into English. Especially, the emphasis has been given to the translation problems of proper nouns such as antroponyms (people’s names), toponyms (geographical names), realias, culture-bound words, binomial pairs and figurative language devices used in epic poem 'Saddi ...
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    84,46 €

  • Translanguaging, Coloniality and Decolonial Cracks
    Robyn Tyler
    In this ethnography of bilingual science learning, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and cracks in the edifice of coloniality. ...
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    169,94 €

  • Translanguaging, Coloniality and Decolonial Cracks
    Robyn Tyler
    In this ethnography of bilingual science learning, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and cracks in the edifice of coloniality. ...
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    48,33 €

  • Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
    Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning. ...
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    60,10 €

  • Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
    Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning. ...
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    181,69 €

  • La littérature mondiale et la littérature minorée
    Mohsine Khrou
    Cet essai découvre, dans les détails, la littérature mondiale dans ses deux grandes formes orale et écrite, depuis les premiers œuvre jusqu’à nos jours. Une littérature, qui a une si courte histoire scripturale (moins de 30 ans) mérite-t-elle d’être nommée littérature ? la littérature mineure s’inscrit pleinement dans cette réflexion historique et sociologique qui porte uniment...
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    37,48 €

  • Grief and Scriptotherapy in Osundare’s City Without People
    Joseph Ajagunmolu Mayaki
    Therapy has long been recognised as one of the main functions of literature. Many African writers, including Niyi Osundare enrich their poetry with ideas and matters that could serve therapeutic purposes. Existing studies on the poetry of Osundare have privileged socio-political, economic and cultural issues to the exclusion of the therapeutic relevance. This study examines the...
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    112,88 €

  • INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
    Dilshodbek Rustamov
    The monograph reviews the types and analyses of speech communication, the cultural nature of language, the study of linguocultural aspects of everyday communication and the issues such as the concept of intercultural communication, the specific aspects and genres of Internet communication are highlighted.The monograph is intended for linguists, young researchers dealing with li...
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    101,22 €

  • Online, Written and Oral Argumentation
    Mayada Tawfik
    The present study investigated the use of complex syntax, grammatical accuracy, interaction, argumentation quality and critical thinking in three argumentative tasks of different modalities. The tasks were composed of the synchronous online forums, academic essays and oral debates of EFL undergraduate students (N= 54) enrolled in a 12 week module of English for academic purpose...
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    167,03 €

  • Seven Brief Lessons on Language
    Jonathan Dunne
    Language is encoded. The words we use every day can tell us something about the meaning of human life, our purpose in this world, the divine being known as God, the creation of the world, the Fall, the economy, the environment... Once our eyes are opened at birth or soon after, we think that we see, but we do not realize that there is another level to reality, a spiritual dimen...
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    25,60 €

  • Dorian, an Imitation?
    Andrea-Zsófia Barabás
    One of the most interesting features of postmodern literature is the interest manifested towards literary works already accepted as part of the literary canon, contemporary authors combining originality and ownership through different techniques, such as rewriting, recontextualization, adaptation and imitation. Will Self’s novel, entitled Dorian: An Imitation, published in 2002...
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    54,97 €

  • A Pragmatic Study of Manju Kapur’s Selected Novels
    Dr. Tukaram Salunkhe
    The author feels that the speech-act analysis of the fictional works carried out can be rewarding in the context of character analysis and literary criticism. Along with the hidden agenda and deixis that occurred in the interactions between characters can be studied from psychoanalytic point of view. There can also be sociological dimension to the study of characters as they ar...
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    68,67 €

  • The Diet and Path of an Amazonian Shaman
    Fermín RODRÍGUEZ YUCUNA / Laurent FONTAINE
    In shamanism, there are two paths. The first always occurs involuntarily and unexpectedly when one has been chosen by an invisible entity (spirit, ancestor or master of the forest), most often during a traumatic event (illness, accident or Near Death Experience). However, the second path requires that one expresses his will to develop his powers with master shamans by means of ...
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    13,37 €