Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

27052 Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

  • Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language
    Ramona Tang
    It can be a challenge writing in a language that is not your native tongue. Constructing academic essays, dissertations and research articles in this second or foreign language is even more challenging, yet across the globe thousands of academics and students do so, some out of choice, some out of necessity. This book looks at a major issue within the field of English for Acade...
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    66,63 €

  • Lithic Language
    Lord Walsingham
    This is a serious book examining the original sounds and meanings of languages right back to the Stone Age - up until now believed to be impossible. But it can also be seen as tracing the overwhelming sexual orientation of human thinking for the last six hundred thousand years or more - when we were only hominids, squatting round the camp fires at the mouths of our caves - to...
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    24,16 €

  • Word and Object (Studies in Communication)
    Willard Van Orman Quine
    2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, 'Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when.' With 'Word and Object' Quine challenged the tradition...
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    23,86 €

  • The Meaning of Meaning
    Bronislaw Malinowski / C. K. Ogden / CKOgden / Ivor A. Richards / Ivor ARichards
    2013 Reprint of 1927 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Revised second edition of this classic text. Although the original text was published in 1923 it has been used as a textbook in many fields including linguistics, philosophy, language, cognitive science and most recently semantics and semiotics in...
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    17,83 €

  • Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
    Natalie Schilling
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    60,20 €

  • Dyslexia and Bilingualism
    Alla Podgaevskaja / Wabke Waaijer
    This book investigates how different features of the Russian language, such as extremely unpredictable word stress, complex inflectional and derivational morphology, and phonetic vowel reduction, can complicate language acquisition in bilingual children with and without dyslexia, and in particular Dutch-Russian children. As discussed in this book, research on Russian-speaking c...
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    65,04 €

  • R.K. Narayan
    Dhananjay Tripathi
    The present endeavour is a synthesis of two different choices: the theoretical assumption of Phenomenological Criticism and R.K. Narayan’s novels which are replete with the concepts of Phenomenology. Phenomenology, as a philosophy, has a very wide spectrum but the present work confines its range only to the literary domain of the philosophy commonly represented by Geneva Cr...
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    146,57 €

  • Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage
    Michael Pace-Sigge
    Corpus Linguistics is becoming an increasingly important branch of language research and interest has spread noticeably beyond the confines of academia, fuelled by applications like text predicting software. The idea of priming in language goes back to the early 1960s with the concept of a ’Teachable Language Comprehender’, which started experiments into language processing and...
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    132,80 €

  • Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage
    Michael Pace-Sigge
    This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how Lexical Priming applies to the use of spoken English as the book provides evidence that Lexical Priming is found in everyday spoken conversations. ...
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    48,22 €

  • Speaking Pittsburghese
    Barbara Johnstone
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    65,21 €

  • Deaf Lit Extravaganza
    John Lee Clark
    This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between these covers, a Deaf couple fights over their son's language use, an Australian woman joins the community as an adult, a Deaf woman's body is fished out a dumpster, and a British ...
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    18,31 €

  • The Philosophy of Rhetoric
    George Campbell
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    79,02 €

  • The Philosophy of Rhetoric
    George Campbell
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    70,73 €

  • Translation and Fantasy Literature in Taiwan
    Y. Chung
    This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available. Topics covered include global fantasy fever, Chinese fantasy, game industry, the social status of translators, and the sociological direction of translations studies. ...
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    48,38 €

  • Lectures on the Science of Language
    F. Max M. Ller / F. Max Muller / FMax MLler / FMAX MULLER
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    94,68 €

  • Photojournalism
    Helen Caple
    Photojournalism provides an analysis of press photography from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the role of photography in the news and how meanings are made in news photographs. It also investigates the meanings that are made at the intersection of words and images in the news story context. This is becoming increasingly important for multimodal news reporting in the...
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    65,12 €

  • Silence in the Second Language Classroom
    Jim King
    Why are second language learners in Japan’s universities so silent? Using an innovative mixed-methods research approach, Jim King investigates the perplexing but intriguing phenomenon of classroom silence. With its exciting new conceptual framework of Dynamic Systems Theory, Silence in the Second Language Classroom offers a unique insight into the true complexity behind why som...
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    132,89 €

  • Translation and Fantasy Literature in Taiwan
    Yu-Ling Chung
    This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial, but often invisible, role that translators have played in making this genre widely available. Yu-Ling Chung applies Bourdieu’s habitus-capital-field framework to investigate the cultural phenomenon of the upsurge of fantasy translations from 1998 onwards and covers topics such as global f...
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    65,47 €

  • Literacy and the Bilingual Learner
    Catherine Dr Wallace
    Literacy and the Bilingual Learner focuses on bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges and aims to bring this marginalised group into sharper relief so as to allow their distinctive skills and resources to be acknowledged and to ensure greater access to quality education. While the interest is in literacy more widely, this book will look specifically at the teachi...
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    65,06 €

  • Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation
    Colin H. Professor Williams
    Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation blends a discussion of the role of official language strategies with an analysis as to how both strategies and legislation are implemented in a variety of contexts ranging from Catalonia, The Basque Country, Finland, Ireland and Wales to Canada at both federal and provincial level. It is an authoritative guide and reference...
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    132,26 €

  • Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation
    C. Williams
    This is an analysis of the promises and contradictions surrounding contemporary minority language policy. It draws on theoretical and real-world perspectives and interviews with key players within European institutions together with field work undertaken principally in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Canada. ...
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    47,53 €

  • Literacy and the Bilingual Learner
    Catherine Wallace
    Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences. ...
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    47,96 €

  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century
    This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi-/multilingual students in monolingual schools. ...
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    59,81 €

  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century
    This book includes the work of specialists working in various educational contexts to create comprehensive coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi-/multilingual students in monolingual schools. ...
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    181,42 €

  • Alternatives in Semantics
    Anamaria Falaus
    Alternatives in Semantics is the first volume to focus on alternatives as a key theme. It offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. The chapters represent different theoretical frameworks, which differ in the w...
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    64,98 €

  • Reclaiming Writing
    This book offers pedagogical strategies for reclaiming writing spaces in classrooms and the knowledge base in which they are grounded. Writing is considered across the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats. ...
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    86,59 €

  • Communication Disorders
    Louise Cummings
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    66,88 €

  • Theories of Syntax
    Jacqui Nokes / Koenraad Kuiper
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    61,50 €

  • Reclaiming Writing
    This book offers pedagogical strategies for reclaiming writing spaces in classrooms and the knowledge base in which they are grounded. Writing is considered across the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Photojournalism
    H. Caple
    This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets. ...
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    48,02 €