Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

27052 Catálogo de libros: Lingüistica

  • The Language of Interstate Relations
    P. Twardzisz
    In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. Opposed to mainstream cognitive assumptions, it provides detailed data-driven research and one realistic solution to many of the dilemmas. ...
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    48,03 €

  • Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film
    Katja Krebs
    This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts of translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film. ...
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    268,09 €

  • Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad
    Gary Barkhuizen / Peter Bodycott / Phil Benson
    Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students’ attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identity in Study Abroad brings together three important research areas by exploring the impact of study abroad on second language identities through narrative research. It outlines a ne...
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    133,07 €

  • Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots
    Horace Danner / Horace Gerald Danner
    Dr. Horace Gerald Danner’s A Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the medical and health-care professions. All word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that ...
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    204,12 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Florian Coulmas
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    171,79 €

  • Handbook of Philosophical Logic
    This second edition of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic reflects great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since the first edition. It gives readers an idea of that landscape and its relation to computer science and formal language and artificial intelligence. It shows how the increased demand for philosophical logic from computer science and artificial intellige...
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    132,60 €

  • Sociolinguistics
    Florian Coulmas
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    73,69 €

  • The Stylistics of Poetry
    Peter Verdonk
    Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk’s most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk covers everything from intrinsic textual meaning and external context in it...
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    285,11 €

  • Text World Theory and Keats’ Poetry
    Marcello Giovanelli
    Text World Theory and Keats’ Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and dream theories to explore reading poems in the light of their emphasis on sta...
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    284,85 €

  • Corporate Discourse
    Ruth Breeze
    Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with other collective entities and with the world at large. It is concerned with understanding how language works in business contexts and how corporate identity and personal and profession...
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    285,10 €

  • Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric
    Timothy Richardson
    LAUER SERIES IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION | Series Editors: Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay | CONTINGENCY, IMMANENCE, AND THE SUBJECT OF RHETORIC Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric considers rhetoric as the historical counterpoint of philosophical and religious discourses via its correspondences with antique rabbinic exegetic...
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    34,57 €

  • Essay Writing the Secrets Revealed
    Cindy M
    Ever wondered why some students are good at writing essays? The secrets to their success are revealed in this book. If you are a teacher or a student of ESL who struggles to explain or understand the concept of essay writing, this reference and practice book is a must! The secrets have helped thousands reduce mistakes and hence boost confidence. Once the secrets are learnt, stu...
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    20,32 €

  • Exploring Language Pedagogy through Second Language Acquisition Research
    Natsuko Shintani / Rod Ellis
    In this book, Ellis and Shintani examine how theory and research relating to second language acquisition can inform language pedagogy. ...
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    307,88 €

  • Legal-Lay Communication
    Chris Heffer
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    57,35 €

  • Asymmetries between Language Production and Comprehension
    Petra Hendriks
    This book asserts that language is a signaling system rather than a code, based in part on such research as the finding that 5-year-old English and Dutch children use pronouns correctly in their own utterances, but often fail to interpret these forms correctly when used by someone else. Emphasizing the unique and sometimes competing demands of listener and speaker, the author e...
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    132,78 €

  • I Think I Am a Verb
    Thomas A. Sebeok
    My writing career has been, at least in this one respect, idiosyncratic: it had to mark and chart, step by step, its own peculiar champaign. My earliest papers, beginning in 1942, were technical articles in this or that domain of Uralic linguistics, ethnography, and folklore, with a sprinkling of contributions to North and South American linguistics. ...
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    134,04 €

  • Analyzing Sound Patterns
    Bruce Long Peng
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    214,79 €

  • Making Connections Level 2
    Jessica Williams / Jo McEntire
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    63,56 €

  • English as a Lingua Franca in the International University
    Jennifer Jenkins
    In this book, Jennifer Jenkins, one of the leading proponents of English as a Lingua Franca explores current academic English language policy in higher education around the world. ...
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    268,00 €

  • Analyzing Sound Patterns
    Long Peng
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    67,36 €

  • Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship
    Vaidehi Ramanathan
    This volume explores the concept of ’citizenship’. The authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency. ...
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    47,73 €

  • English as a Lingua Franca in the International University
    Jennifer Jenkins
    In this book, Jennifer Jenkins, one of the leading proponents of English as a Lingua Franca explores current academic English language policy in higher education around the world. ...
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    82,69 €

  • Language and the Market Society
    Gerlinde Mautner
    Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society-a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government departments have re-defined themselves as service providers; universities produce gradu...
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    93,63 €

  • Between Syntax and Semantics
    C.T. James Huang
    This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang’s work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades.  It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.   ...
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    92,41 €

  • Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts
    Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change. ...
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    92,85 €

  • The Role of Reading in First and Second Language Acquisition
    Viktor Kocsis
    Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Graz (Institut für Anglistik), course: Linguistics Seminar (Beyond Interpretation: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Reading Research), language: English, abstract: 'A person's future opportunities for success and prosperity will be even more...
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    15,86 €

  • Classroom-oriented Research
    The volume brings together papers related to different aspects of classroom-oriented research on teaching and learning second and foreign languages that have been authored by specialists from Poland and abroad. The first part contains contributions dealing with individual variation in the language classroom, in particular age, anxiety, beliefs and language learning strategies. ...
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    135,00 €

  • Community Literacy Journal 7.2 (Spring 2013)
    COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 7.2 (Spring, 2013) | The journal understands 'community literacy' as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but...
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    25,68 €

  • Controversy as News Discourse
    Peter A. Cramer
    This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textua...
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    134,28 €

  • Translation and Web Searching
    Vanessa Enríquez Raído
    This book presents a comprehensive study of various cognitive and affective aspects of web searching for translation problem solving. ...
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    254,61 €