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Language History, Language Change, And Language Relationship - An Introduction To Historical And Comparative Linguistics

by Brian D. Joseph e Hans Henrich Hock

43,94€ + 10% CARD

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 Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? This book provides answers to questions like these with illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages.
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Statistics For Linguistics With R - A Practical Introduction

by Stefan Th. Gries

54,99€ + 10% CARD

 This is the third, newly revised and extended edition of this successful book (that has already been translated into three languages). Like the previous editions, it is entirely based on the programming language and environment R and is still thoroughly hands-on (with thousands of lines of heavily annotated code for all computations and plots). However, this edition has been updated based on many workshops/bootcamps taught by the author all over the world for the past few years: This edition has been didactically streamlined with regard to its exposition, it adds two new chapters - one on mixed-effects modeling, one on classification and regression trees as well as random forests - plus it features new discussion of curvature, orthogonal and other contrasts, interactions, collinearity, the effects and emmeans packages, autocorrelation/runs, some more bits on programming, writing statistical functions, and simulations, and many practical tips based on 10 years of teaching with these materials.
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Good Humor, Bad Taste - A Sociology Of The Joke

by Giselinde Kuipers

41,91€ + 10% CARD

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 Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, this book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States.
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English Pronunciation For Speakers Of Spanish - From Theory To Practice

by María De Los Ángeles Gómez González e Teresa Sánchez Roura

41,91€ + 10% CARD

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 Covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology for Spanish-speaking learners of English. This book combines theoretical issues and applications to practice, and adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach. It is suitable for Spanish-speaking students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.
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Rodents Of Sub-Saharan Africa - A Biogeographic And Taxonomic Synthesis

by Ara Monadjem, Christiane Denys, Fenton P. D. Cotterill e Peter J. Taylor

307,56€ + 10% CARD

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 Covers all the rodents occurring in Southern, Central, East and West Africa, south of the Sahara. This book includes diagnostic descriptions, systematics and taxonomy, biogeographical environment, fossil species, photographs of skull and mandible, illustrations of molar dentition, photographs and tables of standard museum measurements.
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Contrasting English And German Grammar - An Introduction To Syntax And Semantics

by Remus Gergel e Sigrid Beck

31,77€ + 10% CARD

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 Offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics.
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Statistics For Linguistics With R - A Practical Introduction

by Stefan Th. Gries

54,99€ + 10% CARD

 This is the third, newly revised and extended edition of this successful book (that has already been translated into three languages). Like the previous editions, it is entirely based on the programming language and environment R and is still thoroughly hands-on (with thousands of lines of heavily annotated code for all computations and plots). However, this edition has been updated based on many workshops/bootcamps taught by the author all over the world for the past few years: This edition has been didactically streamlined with regard to its exposition, it adds two new chapters - one on mixed-effects modeling, one on classification and regression trees as well as random forests - plus it features new discussion of curvature, orthogonal and other contrasts, interactions, collinearity, the effects and emmeans packages, autocorrelation/runs, some more bits on programming, writing statistical functions, and simulations, and many practical tips based on 10 years of teaching with these materials.
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Multimodality - Foundations, Research And Analysis - A Problem-Oriented Introduction

by Janina Wildfeuer, John Bateman e Tuomo Hiippala

49,03€ + 10% CARD

 This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specifically tailored sets of methods for conducting and evaluating analyses. Extensive references and critical discussion of existing approaches from many disciplines and in each of the multimodal domains addressed are provided. The authors adopt a problem-oriented perspective throughout, showing how an appropriate foundation for understanding multimodality as a phenomenon can be used to derive strong methodological guidance for analysis as well as supporting the adoption and combination of appropriate theoretical tools. Theoretical positions found in the literature are consequently always related back to the purposes of analysis rather than being promoted as valuable in their own right. By these means the book establishes the necessary theoretical foundations to engage productively with today’s increasingly complex combinations of multimodal artefacts and performances of all kinds.
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Introduction To Semantics - An Essential Guide To The Composition Of Meaning

by Thomas Ede Zimmermann e Wolfgang Sternefeld

36,50€ + 10% CARD

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 Introduction to Semantics
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Cognitive Phonology In Construction Grammar - Analytic Tools For Students Of English

by Riitta Välimaa-Blum

135,19€ + 10% CARD

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 Presenting an introduction to both English phonology and phonology in general, this book analyzes some central phenomena of the sound system of two standard varieties of English, Southern British English and General American. It is intended for students as well as teachers of English and linguistics.
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The Externalist Challenge

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 In original contributions, internationally leading authors address themselves to one of the most important questions of contemporary theoretical philosophy. The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language.
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Politeness In Language - Studies In Its History, Theory And Practice

55,43€ + 10% CARD

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 The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century.
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Language History, Language Change, And Language Relationship - An Introduction To Historical And Comparative Linguistics

by Brian D. Joseph e Hans Henrich Hock

291,33€ + 10% CARD

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 Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? This book provides answers to questions like these with illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages.
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Word Power: Phrasal Verbs And Compounds - A Cognitive Approach

by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

135,19€ + 10% CARD

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 Word Power: Phrasal Verbs and Compounds is a textbook for guided self-learning intended for post-intermediate and advanced learners of English. Thanks to cognitive linguistics the material is organized around each particle giving the students an astonishing insight into the networks of metaphorical meanings of each particle.
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Folk Linguistics

by Dennis R. Preston e Nancy A. Niedzielski

49,35€ + 10% CARD

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 Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. This text argues that what a people believe about their language is as important as any other key to an understanding of their culture.
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Multimodality - Foundations, Research And Analysis - A Problem-Oriented Introduction

by Janina Wildfeuer, John Bateman e Tuomo Hiippala

49,03€ + 10% CARD

 This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specifically tailored sets of methods for conducting and evaluating analyses. Extensive references and critical discussion of existing approaches from many disciplines and in each of the multimodal domains addressed are provided. The authors adopt a problem-oriented perspective throughout, showing how an appropriate foundation for understanding multimodality as a phenomenon can be used to derive strong methodological guidance for analysis as well as supporting the adoption and combination of appropriate theoretical tools. Theoretical positions found in the literature are consequently always related back to the purposes of analysis rather than being promoted as valuable in their own right. By these means the book establishes the necessary theoretical foundations to engage productively with today’s increasingly complex combinations of multimodal artefacts and performances of all kinds.
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English Pronunciation For Speakers Of Spanish - From Theory To Practice

by María De Los Ángeles Gómez González e Teresa Sánchez Roura

48,36€ + 10% CARD

 Covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology for Spanish-speaking learners of English. This book combines theoretical issues and applications to practice, and adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach. It is suitable for Spanish-speaking students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.
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Introduction To English Linguistics

by Ingo Plag, Mareile Schramm, Maria Braun e Sabine Arndt-Lappe

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 This highly successful textbook introduces university students to English linguistics, with a hands-on didactic orientation. It covers the core areas of structural linguistics, with extensions to historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
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English Syntax In Three Dimensions - History - Synchrony - Diachrony

by Carola Trips

35,78€ + 10% CARD

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Good Humor, Bad Taste - A Sociology Of The Joke

by Giselinde Kuipers

48,36€ + 10% CARD

 Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, this book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States.
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Politeness In Language - Studies In Its History, Theory And Practice

135,15€ + 10% CARD

 <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="microsoft dhtml editing control"> </head> <body> The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century. The original articles focus on the phenomenon of politeness in language. They present the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term 'politeness' as a concept within a theory of linguistic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models such as those developed by Brown and Levinson, Lakoff, and Leech. New approaches are suggested. In addition to this theoretical discussion, an empirical section presents a number of case studies and research projects in linguistic politeness. These show what has been achieved within current models and what still remains to be done, in particular with reference to cross-cultural studies in politeness and differences between a Western and a non-Western approach to the subject. The publication of this second edition demonstrates that the significance of the collection is just as salient in the first decade of the new millennium as it was at the beginning of the 1990s. </body> </html>
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Contrasting English And German Grammar - An Introduction To Syntax And Semantics

by Remus Gergel e Sigrid Beck

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 Offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics.
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Signs Of Crime - Introducing Forensic Semiotics

by Marcel Danesi

35,78€ + 10% CARD

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English Grammar For Literature Students - How To Analyse Literary Texts

by Laura Wright

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