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  • Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes
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    Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes

    This textbook introduces current thinking on English as a global language and explores its role in intercultural and transcultural communication. It covers how English functions as a lingua franca in multilingual scenarios alongside other languages in a...
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  • Queering Translation History Queering Translation History
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    Queering Translation History

    This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline in order to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and...
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  • English and Translation in the European Union English and Translation in the European Union
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    English and Translation in the European Union

    This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the interplay between the rise of English as a lingua franca and the effacement of translations in EU...
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  • Collaborative Poetry Translation Collaborative Poetry Translation
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    Collaborative Poetry Translation

    This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the "Poettrio" method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as...
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  • The Discourse of Sport The Discourse of Sport
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    The Discourse of Sport

    This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of...
    $123.00

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  • Righting the Mother Tongue Righting the Mother Tongue
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    Righting the Mother Tongue

    When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a...
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  • Labels for Locals Labels for Locals
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    Labels for Locals

    In our globally interconnected age, misnaming where someone is from or the cultural group to which they belong often constitutes more than a harmless social gaffe. Labels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for...
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  • The Story of Yiddish The Story of Yiddish
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    The Story of Yiddish

    A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together.Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Incorporating antique German dialects and elements...
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  • Theories of Rhetoric Theories of Rhetoric
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    Theories of Rhetoric

    Theories of Rhetoric: An Anthology offers students a critical/cultural lens through which to view the history and definition of rhetoric and how it functions in society. The scholarly readings included in this volume illuminate the effects of gender,...
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  • Psychology of Language and Thought Psychology of Language and Thought
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    Psychology of Language and Thought

    The fact that one would contemplate publication of a book such as this indicates both the maturity and the growth of activity that have taken place in the field of psycholinguistics over the past few decades. More­ over, the...
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  • TRANS-DENKER TRANS-DENKER
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    TRANS-DENKER

    Het boek is gebaseerd op Max Stirner en de titel van zijn boek uit 1844: "de enige en zijn eigendom".
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  • Planning Chinese Characters Planning Chinese Characters
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    Planning Chinese Characters

    Prologue.- Making Hanzi Accessible.- Reflections on New Perspectives.- New Challenges for a Digital Society.- Standardization as a Solution.- Influencing Outcomes.- Envisioning the Future.- Some Critical Issues.
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  • Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills
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    Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills

    Personal Knowledge of Being a Teacher.- A Paradigm of Meaning, Language and "Silence".- Explicating Methodological Commitments.- Autobiographical Reflexive Approach in the Context of Teaching Language and Culture for Specific Purposes.- Exploring and...
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  • In the Presence of English In the Presence of English
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    In the Presence of English

    The Presence of English Sociocultural, Acquisitional, and Media Dimensions.- English in Europe.- An Empirical Approach to the Presence of English.- Descriptive Findings on the Presence of English.- Determinants of Contact, Proficiency, and Attitudes.-...
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  • Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes
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    Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes

    The Role of Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes: Some Central Issues.- Corpus-Based Studies.- Corpus Linguistics and English for Academic Purposes.- Interaction in Academic Spoken English: The Use of 'I' and 'You' in the MICASE.-...
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  • Communicating with One Another Communicating with One Another
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    Communicating with One Another

    PART I: A CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. 1. The Problematic. 2. Empirical Methods. 3. Fluency and Hesitation. 4. The Written. PART II: FOUNDATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN DISCOURSE. 5. Rhetoric. 6. Intentionality. 7. From Monologism...
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  • Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages. A Concise Exposition of the History of Sanskrit, Old Iranian ... Old Armenian, Old Greek, Latin, Umbrian-Samnitic, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Lithuanian and Old Bulgarian Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages. A Concise Exposition of the History of Sanskrit, Old Iranian ... Old Armenian, Old Greek, Latin, Umbrian-Samnitic, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Lithuanian and Old Bulgarian
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    Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages. A Concise Exposition of the History of Sanskrit, Old Iranian ... Old Armenian, Old Greek, Latin, Umbrian-Samnitic, Old Irish, Gothic, Old High German, Lithuanian and Old Bulgarian

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Sound-English Sound-English
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    Sound-English

    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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Contesting Empires Contesting Empires
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    Contesting Empires

    Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's...
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  • Language, Nation and State Language, Nation and State
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    Language, Nation and State

    This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member...
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  • Talk in Two Languages Talk in Two Languages
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    Talk in Two Languages

    One of the most common phenomena of language use among bilingual speakers is language alternation. Theoretically this is impossible, both grammatically and socio-functionally. Drawing on Ethnomethodology this book addresses the crucial question of how to...
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  • Evaluating Change in English Language Teaching Evaluating Change in English Language Teaching
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    Evaluating Change in English Language Teaching

    This book is an exploration of the processes of change in English language teaching. In Part I the principles and strategies of change and factors affecting educational change are presented. Part II focuses on implementing change and looks at key...
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  • Language, Sexualities and Desires Language, Sexualities and Desires
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    Language, Sexualities and Desires

    Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures. This volume addresses how people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships and how membership of...
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  • The Language of Police Interviewing The Language of Police Interviewing
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    The Language of Police Interviewing

    Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview techniques. This new study uses tools drawn from interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis for a detailed study of...
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  • Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching
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    Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching

    Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching. After summarising the...
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  • Internet Discourse and Health Debates Internet Discourse and Health Debates
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    Internet Discourse and Health Debates

    Applying multimodal textual analysis to the languages and images of on-line communication forms, Kay Richardson shows, from an applied linguistic perspective, how the Internet is being used for global, interactive communication about public health risks...
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  • Optimality Theory and Pragmatics Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
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    Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

    Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm...
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  • Truth without Predication Truth without Predication
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    Truth without Predication

    This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim that there-sentences' form is distinct from that of ordinary subject-predicate sentences, and that this...
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  • The Exercise of Power in Communication The Exercise of Power in Communication
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    The Exercise of Power in Communication

    This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to...
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  • Meaning Making in Text Meaning Making in Text
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    Meaning Making in Text

    Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
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  • Specialised Translation Specialised Translation
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    Specialised Translation

    This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP' translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards a more realistic understanding of it as a complex and multilayered phenomenon which belies its standard negative binary definition...
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  • Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader
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    Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

    Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.
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  • Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis
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    Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis

    This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays special attention to enunciative pragmatics as a...
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  • Chinese Discourse Studies Chinese Discourse Studies
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    Chinese Discourse Studies

    Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a...
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  • Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making
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    Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making

    The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account...
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  • Y Seren Foreu, Neu, Ganwyll Y Cymry Y Seren Foreu, Neu, Ganwyll Y Cymry
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    Y Seren Foreu, Neu, Ganwyll Y Cymry

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...
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  • Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad
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    Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad

    Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identity in Study Abroad brings together three important...
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  • Business Discourse Business Discourse
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    Business Discourse

    This book will enable students, researchers and practitioners with some background in applied linguistics and/or (business) communication to engage with most of the issues raised by the multidisciplinary field of business discourse. To applied linguists...
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  • Assessing Second Language Pragmatics Assessing Second Language Pragmatics
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    Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

    This volume is the first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, the first section of the book...
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  • Manuel de philologie classique; Volume 2 Manuel de philologie classique; Volume 2
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    Manuel de philologie classique; Volume 2

    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 America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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