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This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
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This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
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Second Language Competence
The Acquisition of Complex Syntax in Spanish
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
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This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
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A practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates or any reader interested in how texts function. This book offers theoretical concepts, tools for analysing texts, practical activities, and authentic texts to develop critical thinking skills.
A practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates or any reader interested in how texts function. This book offers theoretical concepts, tools for analysing texts, practical activities, and authentic texts to develop critical thinking skills.
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Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.
Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.
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To Define and Inform
An Analysis of Information Provided in Dictionaries Used by Learners of English in China and Denmark
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner's dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
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This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
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For Arguments’ Sake
Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political Discourse
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
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This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
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The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
Student Exchanges between Japanese and Australian Universities
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students' transition between cultures.
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
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A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese
The Infinitive, the Clitic Pronoun Se and Finite Verb Forms
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
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A Glasgow Voice
James Kelman’s Literary Language
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
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Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
Institutional Discourse and Practices
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
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Xue-guanhua 學官話
A Ryūkyūan Source of Language Education
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
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This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
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Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
Current Issues in Specialised Language Research, Teaching and New Technologies
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
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“The EU is Not Them, But Us!”
The First Person Plural and the Articulation of Collective Identities in European Political Discourse
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
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This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
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This book comprises papers on theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, literature and cultural studies, divided into three sections: Image, Identity, and Reality. A valuable resource for academic study and the general public.
This book comprises papers on theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, literature and cultural studies, divided into three sections: Image, Identity, and Reality. A valuable resource for academic study and the general public.
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