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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
by David Sacks  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-375) and index....
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Individual Differences in Second-Language Learning (Second Language Acquisition)
by Peter Skehan Publisher Comments Understanding the way in which learners differ from one another is of fundamental concern to those involved in second-language acquisition, either as researchers or teachers. This account is the first book-length review of the important research into...
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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
by Michael Erard Publisher Comments Um... is about how you really speak, and why it's normal for your casual, everyday speech to be filled with verbal blunders -- about one in every ten words. Why do they happen? Why can't we control them? What can you tell about the people who make them...
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Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL
by Keith Richards Publisher Comments Graduate and professional TESOL students will welcome this research methods textbook for undertaking qualitative, naturalistic and action research projects. Uniquely, the book offers a three-level structured progression, suited both to novice and...
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Minimalist Syntax: The Essential Readings (Linguistics: The Essential Readings)
by Zeljko Boskovic And Howard Lasnik Publisher Comments This book is a collection of key readings on Minimalist Syntax, the most recent, and arguably most important, theoretical development within the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. Brings together in one volume the key readings on...
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Language in the World: A Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
by M. J. Cresswell Publisher Comments First book-length treatment of relation between words and meaning using possible-worlds semantics....
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Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature #5: Aime Cesaire
by Gregson Davis Publisher Comments Aime Cesaire is the best known poet in the French Caribbean. In this study Gregson Davis examines Cesaire's extraordinary dual career as writer and elected politician. As one of the most profound critics of colonialism, Cesaire, the acknowledged inventor...
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Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology
by Judith Baxter Publisher Comments Positioning Gender in Discourse offers a newly emerging approach to the study of spoken discourse. Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis has particular relevance to analyzing the significance of gender in relation to the competing and...
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Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching (Yale Language Series)
by B. Kumaravadivelu Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-330) and index....
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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
by Daniel Nettle Publisher Comments Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #0070: Ergativity
by Robert M. W. Dixon Publisher Comments This book provides a full survey of the various types of ergativity, looking at the ways they interrelate, their semantic bases and their role in the organisation of discourse....
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Teaching Translation and Interpreting
by Dollerup Synopsis Includes papers from a conference on the state of the art in translator and interpreter training. Topics range from culture specific problems (in Iran, South Africa and Canada, for instance) to today's internationalization of the profession. The book is...
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Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics #02: Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics
by Mineharu (edt) Nakayama Publisher Comments A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, particularly English. This handbook, the second in a three...
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The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
by Andrea Tyler Publisher Comments Provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions....
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The Structure of Coordination
by Jose Camacho Publisher Comments This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other...
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The Translation Studies Reader
by L. Venuti Publisher Comments "The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential approaches to translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the developments of the last thirty years. With introductory essays prefacing each...
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Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims
by Cedric Boeckx Publisher Comments Boeckx examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to date of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. He exemplifies its methods, considers the...
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Advertising as Multilingual Communication
by Helen Kelly-holmes Publisher Comments Advertising has traditionally communicated messages with strong local and national identities to consumers. Increasingly, though, products, producers, advertising agencies and media are becoming internationalized. In the development of strategies that...
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology #36: Verbal and Signed Languages: Comparing Structures, Constructs and Methodologies
by Elena Pizzuto Et Al Book News Annotation Signed languages share many characteristics with those that are verbal, not the least of which are in their structure and methodology. This collection of articles examines the ways in which signed and spoken compare, including in iconicity...
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Cognitive Linguistics Research [Clr] #35.2: Sociocultural Situatedness
by Roslyn M. (edt) Frank Publisher Comments The papers in this volume introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with culturally...
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