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The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas)
by David J. Costa  Publisher Comments The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day...
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In Other Words; A Coursebook on Translation
by Mona Baker Publisher Comments <P>Addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies. This text explores various areas of language and relates the theoretical findings to the actual practice of translation, using authentic examples.</P>...
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Elementary Arabic
by Reynold A. Nicholson Publisher Comments ELEMENTARY ARABIC a series planned by FREDERIC DU PRE THORNTON. Lecturer in Persian in the University of Cambridge, and some time Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge at the University Press 1909 . PREFACE THIS Reading 7 Book is the second of three which...
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Introduction To Language Policy (05 Edition)
by Thomas Ricento Publisher Comments An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field....
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The Missing Spanish Creoles
by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #81: Historical Linguistics and Language Change
by Roger Lass Publisher Comments Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics....
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Language, Frogs and Savants: Puzzles, Problems and Polemics in Linguistics
by Neilson Voyne Smith Publisher Comments With topics ranging from language death to sign language, Language, Frogs and Savants offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics....
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Western Languages: Ad 100-1500 (03 Edition)
by Wolff Publisher Comments Short, punchy, and highly illustrated, this brilliant historical survey of the development of language in the West is a classic reference. When did Europeans stop speaking Latin? How did the actions of society or religion influence vocabulary? What...
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The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Languages Fast
by A. G. Hawke Publisher Comments There are many reasons why you might need to learn a foreign language quickly. The author, a U.S. Army Green Beret, often travels to foreign countries on short notice and must be able to communicate with military and government officials, many of whom do...
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The Essentials of World Languages, Grades K-12: Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice Series)
by Janis Jensen Publisher Comments As schools shift to a performance-based model of language instruction, your world language programs will be challenged to keep up with new instructional activities and assessments. This new volume in our Priorities in Practice series can help. Explore...
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Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency: The Interface Between Learning and Assessment
by J Charles Alderson Publisher Comments Addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. This work presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered...
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The Language of Football. a Contrastative Study of Syntactic and Semantic Specifics of Verb Usage in English and German Match Commentaries
by Maike Krone Synopsis German and English display, despite their genetic relatedness, a number of structural differences, which have their sources in the historical development of the two languages. Yet do all these differences fit with the frequently made claim that English...
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History of Structuralism #01: The Rising Sign: 1945-1966
by Francois Dosse Publisher Comments Structuralism has had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from history to psychoanalysis. Francois Dosse tells the story of structuralism's beginnings in postwar Paris to its culmination as a movement that would...
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Sociolinguistics of Language (90 Edition)
by Ralph W. Fasold Publisher Comments A companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic....
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Modern Philosophy of Language
by Maria Baghramian Publisher Comments Modern Philosophy of Language brings together the most significant writings on language in twentieth-century philosophy -- from the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the logical positivists to the contemporary contributions of W.V.O. Quine...
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
by David Crystal Publisher Comments Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving the...
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
by Michael Agar Publisher Comments This guide to understanding the culture of conversation is by one of America's foremost linguistic anthropologists. In a fascinating journey through the meaning of language--and the relationship of language to culture--Michael Agar sheds new light on the...
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Language in Society #27: Language Variation as Social Practice
by Penelope Eckert Publisher Comments This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population....
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Systemic Functional Grammar and Natural Language Processing: Linguistic Description and Computational Representation (Communication in Artificial Intelligence)
by Elke Teich Publisher Comments This book deals with the computational application of systemic functional grammar (SFG) for natural language generation. More particularly, it first describes the implementation of a fragment of the grammar of German in the computational framework of...
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Linguistic Evolution with Special Reference to English
by M. L. Samuels Publisher Comments Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of English. He assesses and mediates between the conflicting dogmas of different schools of linguistics, and...
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