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Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch (Aup - Meertens Ethnology Lectures)
by Peter Burke  Publisher Comments From the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, patterns of living and communication in the Netherlands transformed dramatically due to developments such as the rise of cities and the invention of the printing press. Now, cultural historian Peter...
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Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics " #33: The Acquisition of Verbs and Their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages
by Natalia (edt) Gagarina Publisher Comments Introduction Part 1: Language-specific impact on the acquisition of HebrewPart 2: Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semanticsPart 3: Stages and the role of semantic bootstrapping in the acquisition of the...
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Chomskys Universal Grammar an Introduction 2ND Edition
by V J Cook Synopsis The theory of Universal Grammar is central to the concerns of present-day linguistics. The book is intended as an introduction for those who want a broad overview of the theory with sufficient detail to see how its main concepts work. The new edition of...
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Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
by David Barsamian Publisher Comments In his latest interview collection, Noam Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. Whether discussing the recent U.S. military escalation in Colombia, the bipartisan rollback of Social...
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Roland Barthes (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
by Graham Allen Publisher Comments Covers Barthes key writings on topics such as: Existentialism and MarxismSemiology, or the 'language of signs'Structuralism and narrative...
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Migration Accomodation and Language Change: Language at the Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity
by Bridget L. Anderson Publisher Comments Migration, Accommodation, and Language Change: Language and the Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes the differences between internal and external...
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The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture
by Hanna Scolnicov Publisher Comments This is a volume of essays, which examines the relationship between the play and its historical and cultural contexts. Transferring plays from one period or one culture to another is so much more than translating the words from one language into another....
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Explaining Language Change: an Evolutionary Approach (UK Edition)
by William Croft Synopsis William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics....
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Second Language Conversations
by Rod Gardner Publisher Comments "This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of...
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English : Meaning and Culture (06 Edition)
by Wierzbicka Publisher Comments It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Its dominance has even led to its use and adaptation by local communities for their own purposes and needs. One might see English in this context as being simply a...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #54: From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Stucture
by Eve E. Sweetser Publisher Comments This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's...
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New Directions 2ND Edition Instructors Manual
by Peter S Gardner Publisher Comments The interactive approach in this text prepares ESL students for university level courses....
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Language, Truth and Logic
by A. J. Ayer Synopsis Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. First published in 1936 when he was only 24, this work shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious....
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I Am Not a Machine-Book II: Thinking with Words
by Jack Lynch Publisher Comments This book, the second in a series of three on cognitive science, explains how natural language is not just a means of communication but is essential to what is often referred to as human thought or reason. An analog model of human cognition is developed...
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Talking about Treatment: Recommendations for Breast Cancer Adjuvant Treatment (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
by Felicia Roberts Publisher Comments Clear and accessible, this book is the first qualitative analysis of the complex conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their oncologists. Roberts focuses on discussions about possible avenues of treatment, and shows them to be an...
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Linguistics : an Introduction To Linguistic Theory (00 Edition)
by Victoria (ed.) Fromkin Publisher Comments "Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory" is a textbook, written for introductory courses in linguistic theory for undergraduate linguistics majors and first-year graduate students, by twelve major figures in the field, each bringing their...
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Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations
by Samuel D. Epstein Publisher Comments A fundamental concept in all syntactic theories is that of a syntactic relation between syntactic objects. While recent work in the Minimalist Framework has attempted to explain the nature of syntactic objects in terms of simple and conceptually...
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Current Studies in Linguistics #21: Foundations of Generative Syntax
by Robert Freiden Publisher Comments This is the first entry-level introduction to generative syntax to develop a foundational approach that rationally reconstructs syntactic theory from the perspective of current research. It shows how basic grammatical concepts are incorporated into...
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Tools for Writing (95 Edition)
by Linda R. Fellag Publisher Comments Tools for Writing features a structured process approach that provides the "tools" -- rhetoric, sentence structure, vocabulary, and grammar -- that students need to become successful writers.<BR>-- Stimulating themes of wide general interest...
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NATO Asi Series #17: Toward Second Language Acquisition
by Elaine C. Klein Publisher Comments This book uniquely illustrates how second language acquisition (SLA) data can instigate linguistic exploration and help inform linguistic and acquisition theory in crucial ways. It also offers new perspectives toward our understanding of the relationship...
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