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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.
Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.
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This guide to English Author Lexicography traces its development from early concordances to modern resources. It analyzes linguistic dictionaries (e.g., Shakespeare’s insults) and encyclopedic works for writers like Chaucer, Milton, and Dickens.
This guide to English Author Lexicography traces its development from early concordances to modern resources. It analyzes linguistic dictionaries (e.g., Shakespeare’s insults) and encyclopedic works for writers like Chaucer, Milton, and Dickens.
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Language Acquisition and Development
Proceedings of GALA 2009
An invaluable reference on Language Acquisition, this collection covers a wide range of topics from the GALA conference. It compares L1, L2, and atypical development across all areas of language, from phonology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics.
An invaluable reference on Language Acquisition, this collection covers a wide range of topics from the GALA conference. It compares L1, L2, and atypical development across all areas of language, from phonology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics.
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Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
Current Challenges, Future Directions
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
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This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard's archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
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Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts
An Approach to Establishing Text Structure
This book explores how experienced authors use word repetition in research articles, short stories, and speeches. It reveals how repetitions form a genre's skeleton and which types improve a text, with applications for assessing quality and writing.
This book explores how experienced authors use word repetition in research articles, short stories, and speeches. It reveals how repetitions form a genre’s skeleton and which types improve a text, with applications for assessing quality and writing.
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Pronouns as Elsewhere Elements
Implications for Language Acquisition
Why do young children misuse pronouns? This study offers a unifying account, arguing their non-adult behavior stems from processing difficulties related to limited working memory, rather than a lack of linguistic knowledge.
Why do young children misuse pronouns? This study offers a unifying account, arguing their non-adult behavior stems from processing difficulties related to limited working memory, rather than a lack of linguistic knowledge.
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Adventuring in Dictionaries
New Studies in the History of Lexicography
Adventuring in Dictionaries brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present. The diverse perspectives are united by a focus on the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities.
Adventuring in Dictionaries brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present. The diverse perspectives are united by a focus on the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities.
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