Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

26546 Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

  • How English Became the Global Language
    David Northrup
    While there have been many books on the history of globalization to date, most have stressed economics and politics. Cultural globalization, of which the emergence of English as the world’s first global language is a prime example, has been comparatively n ...
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    134,26 €

  • Literacy as Translingual Practice
    Suresh Canagarajah
    This book advances a translingual orientation to writing-one that is in tune with the new literacies and communicative practices flowing into writing classrooms and demanding new pedagogies and policies. ...
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    86,70 €

  • Literacy as Translingual Practice
    Suresh Canagarajah
    This book advances a translingual orientation to writing-one that is in tune with the new literacies and communicative practices flowing into writing classrooms and demanding new pedagogies and policies. ...
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    268,00 €

  • Theatre Translation in Performance
    This volume focuses on the highly debated topic of theatrical translation, one brought on by a renewed interest in the idea of performance and translation as a cooperative effort on the part of the translator, the director, and the actors. ...
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    267,95 €

  • Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense
    S. Chapman
    This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and political background of her life. It also assesses Stebbing’s contribution in the light of developments both in analytic philosophy and in linguistics in the decade since her death. ...
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    48,11 €

  • Tranströmer International ; An Intercontinental Perspective on the Poetry of Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer
    Azita Ghahreman / Tomas Tranströmer
    Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2011. He was then the first Swedish writer to become a laureate for almost forty years.This anthology takes an intercontinental perspective on the poetry of Tranströmer. It raises the question of how his poetry is actually perceived in continents predominated by other literary preferences. It also gives insight to the ...
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    15,53 €

  • From Utterances to Speech Acts
    Mikhail Kissine
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    157,56 €

  • A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics
    Fabio Rambelli
    One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of the Japanese Shingon tradition.Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained...
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    74,44 €

  • Language and Time
    Vyvyan Evans
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    167,02 €

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers
    Jerome C. Harste / Stacie L. Tate / Vivian Maria Vasquez
    This book bridges critical literacy theory and teacher education by offering a theoretical framework and detailed examples and pedagogical resources teacher educators can use to build critical literacies with teachers in and out of school. ...
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    241,52 €

  • Constraints on Language
    Susan Kemper A debate about the role of working memory in language processing has become center-most in psycholinguistics (Caplan & Waters, in press; Just & Carpenter, 1992; Just, Carpenter, & Keller, 1996; Waters & Caplan, 1996). This debate concerns which aspects of language processing are vulnerable to working memory limitations, how working memory...
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    207,45 €

  • Speech Rate, Pause and Sociolinguistic Variation
    T. Kendall
    This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed discussions of its methods and data, it also acts as a valuable model for conducting corpus (socio)phonetic research. ...
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    47,99 €

  • Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation
    Tyler Kendall
    Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation examines the confluence of psycholinguistic factors and social factors in linguistic variation through corpus-based analyses of speech rate and silent pause in US English. In particular, based on a large amount of data extracted from a wide range of sociolinguistic interview recordings, it demonstrates the great extent to which ...
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    132,70 €

  • Language Power
    Byron Renz
    The focus of Language Power: Dynamic Progression from Word to Message is on words and how they convey meaning and feeling. The microscopic focus on the word itself evolves into the logical organization of words into meaningful sentences, paragraphs, and document sections. The focus is on the somewhat divergent nonfiction elements of information and persuasion. From an examinati...
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    24,07 €

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers
    Jerome C. Harste / Stacie L. Tate / Vivian Maria Vasquez
    This book bridges critical literacy theory and teacher education by offering a theoretical framework and detailed examples and pedagogical resources teacher educators can use to build critical literacies with teachers in and out of school. ...
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    73,74 €

  • Let’s Talk About Early Language Development
    Ana Gamarra Hoover / Karen Griffin Roberts
    Parents, family members and professional educators will find the information in this book understandable and practical when there is concern about a child’s language development. Let’s Talk About Early Language Development gives parents an idea about what a typical child should understand and say at different ages, and it describes the different kinds of language delays in an ...
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    11,43 €

  • Class Politics
    Stephen Parks
    'Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies.' -Richard Ohmann | CLASS POLITICS THE MOVEMENT FOR THE STUDENTS’ RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANGUAGE (Second Edition) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field. Such histories, particularly in the 1980s and 199...
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    40,37 €

  • Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch
    The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide. The contribution...
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    73,91 €

  • Spoken Corpus Linguistics
    Ronald Carter / Svenja Adolphs
    In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in corpus research, the spoken language can reveal patterns of language use that are bot...
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    254,66 €

  • The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2011
    THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field’s independent journals. Repre...
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    42,98 €

  • Towards a General Theory of Translational Action
    Hans J Vermeer / Katharina Reiss / Christiane Nord
    This is the first English translation of the seminal book by Katharina Reiß and Hans Vermeer, Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie, first published in 1984. ...
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    85,45 €

  • Language and Religion
    William Downes
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    60,16 €

  • Sea Passages
    Geoffrey Callender
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    43,38 €

  • New Essays on Umberto Eco
    Peter Bondanella
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    42,13 €

  • Bakhtin and his Others
    ’Bakhtin and his Others’ offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality, research into his theoretical backgrounds, and case studies where these insights are employed in literary analysis. ...
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    142,55 €

  • Sacred Calligraphy of the East
    John Stevens
    Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of brush and ink in Japan, China, India, and Tibet. This beautifully illustrated book covers such topics as the history and spirit of Eas...
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    28,87 €

  • Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning
    Gogate
    The process of learning words and languages may seem like an instinctual trait, inherent to nearly all humans from a young age. However, a vast range of complex research and information exists in detailing the complexities of the process of word learning. Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning: Trends in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence strives to combine c...
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    230,13 €

  • The Spanish Perfects
    Chad Howe
    Among the most prolifically treated topics in grammaticalization approaches to semantic change is the development of periphrastic past constructions, particularly the ’have’-perfects in Romance and other Indo-European languages. This issue is an intriguing one for language researchers since it offers the opportunity to observe language change both as an incipient process that i...
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    65,28 €

  • Phonetic Search Methods for Large Speech Databases
    Ami Moyal / Michal Gishri / Vered Aharonson
    'Phonetic Search Methods for Large Databases' focuses on Keyword Spotting (KWS) within large speech databases. The brief will begin by outlining the challenges associated with Keyword Spotting within large speech databases using dynamic keyword vocabularies. It will then continue by highlighting the various market segments in need of KWS solutions, as...
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    67,88 €

  • The Spanish Perfects
    L. Howe
    This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish. ...
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    48,18 €