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  • Vowel Measurements Vowel Measurements
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    Vowel Measurements

    "Vowel Measurements" by C.H. Grandgent offers a detailed exploration into the scientific study of vowel sounds. This work delves into the intricacies of phonetics and acoustics, presenting methodologies for accurately measuring and analyzing vowel...
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  • Raças Raças
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    Raças

    Raças: Usos E Costumes Dos Indigenas Da Districto De Inhambane, Acompanhado De Um Vocabulario Em Shitsua, Guitonga E Shishope, by Augusto Cabral, offers a detailed look into the cultures and languages of the indigenous people of the Inhambane district...
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  • Das Deutsche Gaunerthum in Seiner Social-Politischen Das Deutsche Gaunerthum in Seiner Social-Politischen
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    Das Deutsche Gaunerthum in Seiner Social-Politischen

    Das Deutsche Gaunerthum in Seiner Social-Politischen Literarischen Und Linguistischen Ausbildung Zu Seinem Heutigen Bestande, Vierter Theil by Friedrich Christian Benedict Avé-Lallemant delves into the world of German rogues and vagabonds,...
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  • The Association Review The Association Review
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    The Association Review

    "The Association Review, Volume 1" presents a detailed look at the methods and philosophies employed in teaching speech to the deaf at the turn of the 20th century. Published by the American Association To Promote The Teaching Of Speech To The Deaf, this...
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  • Biblical Selections for Beginners in German Biblical Selections for Beginners in German
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    Biblical Selections for Beginners in German

    Biblical Selections for Beginners in German, compiled by Warren Washburn Florer, offers a unique approach to learning German through carefully chosen passages from the Bible. Designed for beginning students, this book provides accessible texts that...
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  • Abhandlungen Zur Germanischen Philologie Abhandlungen Zur Germanischen Philologie
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    Abhandlungen Zur Germanischen Philologie

    Abhandlungen Zur Germanischen Philologie ist eine Sammlung von Abhandlungen, die sich mit dem Studium der germanischen Philologie auseinandersetzen. Dieses Werk aus dem Jahr 1898 bietet Einblicke in die sprachlichen und literarischen Aspekte der...
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  • Gramatica Ibanag-Castellana Gramatica Ibanag-Castellana
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    Gramatica Ibanag-Castellana

    "Gramatica Ibanag-Castellana" is a comprehensive linguistic resource designed to facilitate understanding and communication between the Ibanag and Spanish languages. This book serves as both a grammar guide and a dictionary, offering valuable insights...
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  • Lectures Faciles Lectures Faciles
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    Lectures Faciles

    Lectures Faciles by Mary Stone Bruce is a charming French language textbook designed for beginners. Published in 1908, this book offers a collection of simple stories and dialogues to aid students in their early stages of learning French. Its focus on...
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  • The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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    The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

    The Harleian Ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales presents a detailed examination of one of the significant manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's renowned work. This edition, meticulously prepared by Frederick James Furnivall, offers invaluable insights...
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  • Essay On Language Essay On Language
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    Essay On Language

    "Essay On Language," by William Samuel Cardell, explores the intricate relationship between language, the faculties of the mind, and its application to the natural world and human artifice. Originally published in 1825, this work delves into the...
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  • Studies in Reading Studies in Reading
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    Studies in Reading

    "Studies in Reading, Volume 6" offers a comprehensive exploration of effective reading methodologies and pedagogical strategies for educators. Authored by James William Searson and George Ellsworth Martin, this volume delves into the core principles of...
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  • Masnavi Manavi - Mohammad Ramezani Edition - Vol.1 of 6 Masnavi Manavi - Mohammad Ramezani Edition - Vol.1 of 6
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    Masnavi Manavi - Mohammad Ramezani Edition - Vol.1 of 6

     Undoubtedly, the most complete and accurate authentic version of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi is the one compiled by Mohammad Ramezani (may he rest in peace), which is used as a reference book at the Rumi's Path Institute.Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī...
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  • Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain
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    Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain

    This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in...
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  • Relative Points of View Relative Points of View
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    Relative Points of View

    The relationship between language and various kinds of non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The...
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  • Rethinking Racial Uplift Rethinking Racial Uplift
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    Rethinking Racial Uplift

    In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed could provide the race with the guidance it needed to surmount slavery, segregation, and...
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  • Journal of Language Relationship 17/1-2 Journal of Language Relationship 17/1-2
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    Journal of Language Relationship 17/1-2

    The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific...
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  • Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia
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    Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia

    Neuropsycholinguistics - the interaction between linguistics, psycholinguistics, and aphasiology - has, over the past two decades, established itself as a multidisciplinary science worthy of its recent attention in Drs...
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  • The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi
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    The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi

    The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years. The dominant discourse encourages the reading of the texts in light of biographical or theological conventions and religious...
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  • Game Theory and Pragmatics Game Theory and Pragmatics
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    Game Theory and Pragmatics

    Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to...
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  • The Rhetoric of Religious Cults The Rhetoric of Religious Cults
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    The Rhetoric of Religious Cults

    The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members. First outlining a rhetorical framework, which encompasses contemporary discourse analysis, the persuasive...
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  • The Language of Jury Trial The Language of Jury Trial
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    The Language of Jury Trial

    Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries. Careful analyses of genres...
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  • Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
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    Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

    A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for...
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  • Language Rights Language Rights
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    Language Rights

    Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights...
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  • Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language
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    Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language

    Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers. This book observes individuals performing similar tasks in their first and their foreign language and...
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  • Metaphor and Iconicity Metaphor and Iconicity
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    Metaphor and Iconicity

    Metaphor and Iconicity attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from a cognitive perspective. There are various degrees in which metaphor and iconicity manifest themselves,...
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  • Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
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    Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

    In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed...
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  • Europe and the Politics of Language Europe and the Politics of Language
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    Europe and the Politics of Language

    Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the...
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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. It offers new insights into Dickens' linguistic...
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  • Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition
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    Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition

    Much research has been done on the social messages conveyed to children reading or listening to fairy tales. In this highly original study, the emphasis shifts from content to linguistic expression. The language and linguistic organization of a dozen...
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  • Isolation and Language Change Isolation and Language Change
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    Isolation and Language Change

    Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a...
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  • The Extent of the Literal The Extent of the Literal
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    The Extent of the Literal

    The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of standard assumptions concerning 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 show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in...
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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 history and current practices of teaching and researching...
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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 interest to students of language and linguistics.
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  • Discipline-Specific Writing Discipline-Specific Writing
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    Discipline-Specific Writing

    Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers...
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  • The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism
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    The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism

    This book provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.  The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for citizenship is key reading for...
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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 authors focus on how different forms of touch are...
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  • Everyday Language and Everyday Life Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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    Everyday Language and Everyday Life

    For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes...
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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 engineering who are taking a course in writing or...
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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 of language variation, examining how gender identities...
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