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Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
by Pedro J. Chamizo-dominguez  Publisher Comments This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the...
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Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs #182: Definiteness in Bulgarian: Modelling the Processes of Language Change
by Olga M Mladenova Book News Annotation Mladenova (U. of Calgary, Canada) offers historical linguists an account of the evolution of overt definiteness in Modern Bulgarian over the past four centuries as expressed by nominals of varied structure that have common nouns, proper names, or...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #26: Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
by Daniel Lefkowitz Publisher Comments Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they...
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Studies in Language and Gender #2: Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender
by Anna Livia Publisher Comments Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most...
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The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects
by Kristen Brustad Publisher Comments This book is the first comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. These four dialect regions are geographically diverse and representative of four distinct dialect...
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Communication in Personal Relationship (96 Edition)
by William B. Gudykunst Publisher Comments This innovative book contains studies of personal relationships from a variety of non-western cultures, and leaves behind the western biases that are typical of most research and theorizing done in this expanding area.</p> <p></p> <p&...
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Singing the Dead; a Model for Epic Evolution.
by Reyes Bertol<'i>n Cebri<'a>n Publisher Comments This book outlines the evolution of Greek heroic epic from funeral laments and creates a model for epic evolution using Greek, other Indo-European, and non-Indo-European materials. Singing the Dead conceives the epic as a post-Mycenean phenomenon...
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African American English in the Diaspora (Language in Society)
by Shana Poplack Publisher Comments This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics....
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A History of the Spanish Language
by Ralph Penny Publisher Comments This textbook provides a clear and elegant account of the development of Spanish over the last 2000 years....
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The Undergraduate's Companion to African Writers and Their Web Sites (Undergraduate Companion)
by Miriam E Conteh-morgan Publisher Comments Discover the best resources available on 300 influential African writers, drawn from the major geographical regions of Sub-Sahara and Maghreb....
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Sociolinguistics; A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions Series)
by Peter Stockwell Publisher Comments Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics. Sociolinguistics: * Provides a comprehensive introduction to Sociolinguistics * Draws on a range of real...
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Language and Gender
by Penelope Eckert Publisher Comments This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic...
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Problems of High-Stakes Testing System- Students' Attitudes Toward the English Section of the Korean University Aptitude Examination
by Bokyung Cho Publisher Comments Achieving high scores on the English section of the Korean University Aptitude Examination (KUAE) is very important for Korean high school students because the scores can determine admission to Korean universities and students' future social, political...
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Gendered Discourses
by Jane Sutherland Publisher Comments This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of...
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French: A Linguistic Introduction
by Zsuzsanna Fagyal Publisher Comments An accessible introduction to the linguistic structure of French, suitable for students of both linguistics and French language....
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Universal Quantification With Skolemization As Evidenced From Chinese and English
by Shi-zhe Huang Book News Annotation Huang (Asian studies and Chinese and linguistics, Haverford College, Pennsylvania) explores the formal definition of universal quantification, arguing that the formal definition of EVERY, which stands for any distributive universal quantifier, ought...
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Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain: The Survival of Regional Languages (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
by Anne Judge Publisher Comments It was traditionally assumed that having a single official language was a necessary condition for the wellbeing of the state, particularly in France and Britain. This assumption is now questioned, and the regional languages are making, in some cases, an...
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The Everything Mandarin Chinese Book: Simple Techniques to Improve Your Speaking and Writing Skills with CD (Audio) (Everything)
by J.f Grasso Synopsis The Everything Conversational Chinese Book with CD provides readers with basic instruction for speaking Chinese in a business setting, while traveling, or within the Chinese-American community. Step-by-step instruction is followed by challenging...
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Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
by Merle L Bachman Book News Annotation As a "post-assimilation" student of Jewish literature in America, Bachman (English, Spalding U., Louisville, Kentucky) reads works by authors who provide "thresholds" to understanding the immigrant experience in the real/imagined "Yiddishland" of New...
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Language and the Law in Deaf Communities (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities)
by Ceil Lucas Publisher Comments The 9th volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series focuses on forensic linguistics, particularly the problems and prejudice that Deaf people face in legal situations due to the language barrier....
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