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  • Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean
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    Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean

    This satirical novel is set in the heady atmosphere of carnival on the tropical Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, where the contradictions of postcolonial existence come to a boil that is furious,...
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  • Graphic Criticism Graphic Criticism
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    Graphic Criticism

    Graphic Criticism analyzes the semantic families of one hundred Anglophone novels written between 1719 and 1997. The analysis demonstrates that these novels embed a code for semantic distribution,...
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  • Investigating Dickens' Style Investigating Dickens' Style
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    Investigating Dickens' Style

    This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations...
    $184.00

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  • Amharic With Style Level 1 Amharic With Style Level 1
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    Amharic With Style Level 1

    This Amharic communication textbook, Amharic withStyle, is designed to be taught at the Fares Academy.However, it is designed so that students who do notparticipate in this academy can learn the...
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  • Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian
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    Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

    First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to...
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  • Teaching and Researching Speaking Teaching and Researching Speaking
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    Teaching and Researching Speaking

    Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The...
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  • Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
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    Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

    Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Techniques for Developing Language Skills and Grammar is an indispensable guide for in-training and novice teachers of Arabic as a foreign language and a source...
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  • Towards a Contextual Grammar of English Towards a Contextual Grammar of English
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    Towards a Contextual Grammar of English

    This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of...
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  • Touch in Social Interaction Touch in Social Interaction
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    Touch in Social Interaction

    Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The...
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  • Writing for Engineering and Science Students Writing for Engineering and Science Students
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    Writing for Engineering and Science Students

    Writing for Engineering and Science Students is a clear and practical guide for anyone undertaking either academic or technical writing. This book is essential reading for all students of science and...
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  • Colloquial Burmese Colloquial Burmese
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    Colloquial Burmese

    Colloquial Burmese provides a step-by-step course in Burmese as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with...
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  • The Sociolinguistics Reader The Sociolinguistics Reader
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    The Sociolinguistics Reader

    The Sociolinguistics Reader presents a state-of-the-art account of the discipline in the closing years of the twentieth century.Volume 2: Gender and Discourse in the first section looks at patterns...
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  • Colloquial Cantonese Colloquial Cantonese
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    Colloquial Cantonese

    Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Cantonese as it is written and spoken today...
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  • Language in Indenture Language in Indenture
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    Language in Indenture

    Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a political act with far-reaching consequences for their...
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  • How To Set Boundaries How To Set Boundaries
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    How To Set Boundaries

    In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, setting boundaries is essential for maintaining healthy relationships. If you struggle with saying no, feeling overwhelmed, or finding yourself...
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  • SWEET & SOUR DREAMS SWEET & SOUR DREAMS
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    SWEET & SOUR DREAMS

    Sweet & Sour Dreams: A Ride Through My Mind is Reagan Watkins' enchanting second book-a captivating collection of prose and poetry that embarks on an emotional odyssey through grief. Within these...
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  • How to Talk to Anyone with Confidence How to Talk to Anyone with Confidence
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    How to Talk to Anyone with Confidence

    Are you tired of feeling anxious and awkward in social settings? Do you struggle to strike up conversations and connect with others? It's time to unlock the secret to overcoming social anxiety and...
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  • Are You Visible? Are You Visible?
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    Are You Visible?

    Are you tired of being the best-kept secret in your industry? Do you want to be recognized as the go-to expert in your field? Look no further than "Are You Visible?" -The ultimate guide to being...
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    Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts

    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the...
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    Lexical Innovation in World Englishes

    Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsLexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the lexical...
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    Language, Diaspora, Home

    This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of...
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  • Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition
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    Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition

    This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary...
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    Perspectives on Knowledge Communication

    This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary...
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    English Vocabulary

    English Vocabulary: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English vocabulary, the way linguists classify and explain it, and the place of vocabulary in our overall picture of the...
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    Postdigital Disconnects

    This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects that...
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    English for Journalists

    English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics of English and to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and...
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  • Doing Academic Careers Differently
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    Doing Academic Careers Differently

    Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way? Is there one best way of being an academic? This book says no. Assumptions about who academics are and what they should do are becoming...
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    Embodied Playwriting

    Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio...
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    Southernizing Sociolinguistics

    This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern Sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary...
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    The Human Translator in the 2020s

    Has the language industry of the 21st century been racing ahead of the translation profession and leaving translators behind? Or are translators adapting to new sociotechnical realities and societal...
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    Contexts of Co-Constructed Discourse

    This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume contributes new understandings of how speakers jointly...
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    Transcultural Theater

    Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist...
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  • An Introduction To The French Language ... An Introduction To The French Language ...
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    An Introduction To The French Language ...

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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  • A School Dictionary, English And Marâthî A School Dictionary, English And Marâthî
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    A School Dictionary, English And Marâthî

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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