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Teaching English To Chinese Students - Voices From Uk Higher Education

by Clare Watson

~~55,65€~~ 44,52€ 20% OFF

 This book shares a narrative inquiry study that explores the voices of Chinese students and unveils how they understand their study of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), as part of their higher education (HE) journey in the UK. The book foregrounds the neo-liberalisation of the university and considers visiting Chinese students in this commodified education space. While challenging common misperceptions of Chinese students that result in the negative labelling and homogenisation of this international student cohort, it links the discussion to aspects of Orientalism applied to East Asian students, reportedly still evident in Western universities today. For contextualisation purposes and the encouragement of a meaningful understanding of contemporary Chinese students, the book includes an exploration of Chinese Education Reforms. The core argument sees a need for an increasing understanding of contemporary Chinese students in the UK HE academic community in relation to social, historical and cultural considerations, in order to enhance their Western education experience.
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The Perception And Acquisition Of Chinese Polysemy

by Haiyan Liang

~~63,60€~~ 50,88€ 20% OFF

 The book investigates how the multiple senses of a Chinese polysemous lexical item are perceived by Chinese native (L1) speakers and second language (L2) learners. It also examines the potential predictors of the acquisition sequence for the selected constructions. The findings contribute to a better knowledge of L2 acquisition of polysemy.
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Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary Of Reduplication In The Major Languages Of The Middle East And Iran

by Dariush Borbor

~~101,39€~~ 81,11€ 20% OFF

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 The present dictionary is an analytical, comparative and etymological presentation of reduplication over a wide spectrum of languages. The preliminary findings show an element of universality to reduplication across languages, both related and unrelated.
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Digital Communication, Linguistic Diversity And Education

~~65,32€~~ 52,26€ 20% OFF

 This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in todayâ€™s digitally networked world. The collection explores diverse digital venues in which language has different roles and functions, including education, politics, technology, media, and popular culture.
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Cognitive Linguistic Explorations Of Writing In The Classroom

by Gwendolyn Williams, Peter Cobin e Rod Case

~~67,64€~~ 54,11€ 20% OFF

 Research into the analysis of classroom-based writing is replete with techniques and methods meant to bring clarity to the question of how to best conduct instruction and assessment. Findings and suggestions for practice are rooted in a philosophy that asks teachers and linguists to judge students writing against a pre-determined standard. Too often, the results do little more than inform teachers and researchers as to which students met the standard and which did not. This book offers research into the analysis of classroom writing that does not use a set standard or rubric to assess student writing but instead relies on insights from cognitive linguistics to explore the connections between cognition and language in student writing. The result is a creative and linguistically driven analysis of classroom writing that allows the linguist or teacher to view student writing on its own terms.
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Towards A Better Understanding Of Metonymy

by Wojciech Wachowski

~~67,64€~~ 54,11€ 20% OFF

 The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.
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Towards A Better Understanding Of Metonymy

by Wojciech Wachowski

~~67,64€~~ 54,11€ 20% OFF

 The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.
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The Writing Of Aletheia - Martin Heidegger: In Language

by Martin Travers

~~67,64€~~ 54,11€ 20% OFF

 Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find new words for his radical form of philosophy. This book is the first study that provides a full account of Heideggerâ€™s language and writing style, revealing his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about his philosophical quest.
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Verbal Semantics In A Tibeto-Burman Language - The Bodo Verb

by Prafulla Basumatary

~~76,25€~~ 61,00€ 20% OFF

 The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, particularly Assam. The description is primarily based on a 1.2-million-word Bodo corpus, both written and spoken, involving different genres. This is the first extensive work solely devoted to the description of the Bodo verb. The book provides a thorough description of the Bodo verb that will be comprehensive enough to be of use to Tibeto-Burmanists, on the one hand, and to language typologists, on the other. Second, it addresses certain pedagogic issues relating to the teaching of the Bodo language in schools. The book encompasses a description of verbal roots, formation of verbal stems, inflection of verbal stems, and distribution of various verb forms in different types of clauses, such as independent clauses, embedded clauses, and chained clauses. Finally, a pedagogic perspective is provided with reference to the morphosyntactic aspects of the Bodo verb. This book was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Linguistics.
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The Past Tense In Polish And French - A Semantic Approach To Translation

by Magdalena Karolak

~~72,61€~~ 58,09€ 20% OFF

 This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Drawing on a selection of Polish literary texts and their translations into French, the author applies the semantic theory of aspect to establish rules for Polish-to-French translation.
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Modality And Its Learner Variety In Japanese

by Razaul Faquire

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 Describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the European school of modality. This title deals with the modal system and its constituents in Japanese, accommodating all the grammatical means of modariti in the Nihongo bunpou (Japanese grammar system).
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Linguistic Meaning And Non-Truth-Conditionality

by Xose Rosales Sequeiros

~~43,73€~~ 34,98€ 20% OFF

 Offers a perspective on semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. This book applies non-truth-conditional semantics to various areas of language and critically considers earlier approaches to the study of semantic meaning, such as truth-conditional semantics, and Speech Act theory.
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Syntaxe Des Pronoms Clitiques En Arabe - Étude Comparative

by Mostafa Rechad

~~60,49€~~ 48,39€ 20% OFF

 Ce livre traite des problématiques liées au fonctionnement des pronoms clitiques (affixes pronominaux) en arabe en comparaison avec plusieurs autres langues afro-asiatiques et indo-européennes. De surcroit, il soulève de nombreuses questions concernant la structure syntaxique de la phrase comme celle du mot, en mettant en relief linterface syntaxe-morphologie. De nombreuses problématiques y sont analysées, comme lordre des mots, la structure de la phrase à prédicat verbal ou non verbal , lincorporation, lidentité catégorielle du pronom clitique et sa projection syntaxique, les traits daccord, le pronom dit résomptif et léconomie morphosyntaxique. Par son approche, louvrage offre un juste équilibre entre description linguistique des faits et explication syntaxique et formelle des problématiques soulevées. Le cadre choisi, celui de la grammaire generative permet, non seulement de comparer larabe standard et dialectal à un grand nombre de faits de langues, mais aussi de proposer un système morphosyntaxique fondé sur des principes universaux, des généralisations, des paramètres et des micro-paramètres.
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Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary Of Reduplication In The Major Languages Of The Middle East And Iran

by Dariush Borbor

~~99,38€~~ 79,50€ 20% OFF

 «Dariush Borbor has created an impressive lexicographical reference work with zeal and passion for over three decades, having collected the largest possible assemblage of alternatives for every single reduplicate. Linguists from many scientific fields must be grateful to him for his pioneering work.» (Adriano V. Rossi, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Philology, DAAM, University of Naples LOrientale and ISMEO, Rome) «The author has created a truly remarkable work on a very strange and little studied area of linguistics. The book contains a wealth of fascinating information and I can only congratulate him on the care and assiduity which he has devoted to it.» (Nicholas Sims-Williams, Professor Emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London) «I had an occasion to look again at your Dictionary of Reduplication. I realized once again how much useful work you have put into compiling it. Your bibliography is comprehensive and very useful. I should like to congratulate you on your assiduous effort to investigate so comprehensively a complex morphological aspect of the Middle Eastern Languages.» ( Ehsan Yarshater, Professor Emeritus, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University) The present dictionary is an analytical, comparative and etymological presentation of reduplication over a wide spectrum of languages. The range of featured languages Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, Persian and Turkish include three separate families connected only by geographical proximity, each with an extremely rich literary tradition. The dictionary covers multiple independent phenomena in several unrelated languages, the underlying idea being that their reduplications are all somehow connected, and that there exists a general «field» of reduplication. The book is not limited to a single field, but rather for several largely separate ones, such as linguistic relations, the theory of reduplication and etymology. Several other related or unrelated languages such as Icelandic, Japanese, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Hittite, etc. have been included for comparative purposes. The preliminary findings of this study indicate that reduplication in the languages under study, and in nearly all other languages, deal mostly with the fundamental, primary human requirements. Another strong proof of the «universality» of reduplicates are that they closely follow the same and similar formation, development and rule in most related and unrelated languages. In consequence of the universality of reduplication and its near identical development in all related or unrelated languages, it even legitimizes the creation of a grammar of reduplication in the future. A few of the essential features of this book include: a complete revision and updating of the semantics; a particular attention to the cognitive aspects; and, many etymologies that cannot be found elsewhere.
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Academic Style Proofreading - An Introduction

by Roxanne Barbara Doerr

~~59,63€~~ 47,70€ 20% OFF

 Academic style and its standards are often unclear to students and scholars. This book aims to unpack the concept of Â«academic style proofreadingÂ» using methodologies including terminology, corpus stylistics and error analysis, presenting common errors and possible proofreading solutions. For research, professional and educational use.
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Form, Meaning And Aspect In The German Impersonal Passive

by Michelle Leese

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 This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The study challenges previous analyses and uses a theoretical framework derived from Saussure and Beedham.
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Form, Meaning And Aspect In The German Impersonal Passive

by Michelle Leese

~~63,60€~~ 50,88€ 20% OFF

 This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The study challenges previous analyses and uses a theoretical framework derived from Saussure and Beedham.
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How Adjectival Can A Participle Be? - Subsective Gradience In English 2nd Participles

by Samirah Aljohani

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 This study of the adjectival passive uses Christopher Beedhamâ€™s aspect analysis of the passive to reconcile the contradiction between verbal and adjectival passive. The authorâ€™s study of 1,000 2nd participles presented to native speakers results in a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.
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How Adjectival Can A Participle Be? - Subsective Gradience In English 2nd Participles

by Samirah Aljohani

~~68,70€~~ 54,96€ 20% OFF

 «This book takes theoretical linguistics by storm, moving our understanding of the passive construction onto a whole new level. Samirah Aljohani puts the adjectival passive under the empirical lexico-grammatical microscope, producing numbers which both dazzle and clarify. Inspired science from copious data presented in an accessible style absolutely brilliant!» (Dr Christopher Beedham, University of St Andrews, Scotland) Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that there is a verbal passive and an adjectival passive. How can the same form express polar opposite meanings? This study of the adjectival passive reconciles the contradiction using Christopher Beedhams aspect analysis of the passive, in which the so-called actional passive (verbal passive) is said to express an action and its resultant state. In the study, the author presented approximately one thousand 2nd participles, mainly from transitive verbs, to three native speaker informants in putative noun phrases such as an accepted practice and putative clauses with un-, such as It is unaccepted, and asked the informants to say if they are grammatical, ungrammatical or borderline. She also interrogated her participles in the British National Corpus for their adjectival properties. In this way, she arrived at five adjective-like properties which a 2nd participle can have. Finally, she put her participles into eight groups, ranging from «0% state, 100% action» to «50% state, 50% action», depending on how many and which of the five adjective-like properties they can exhibit. The result is a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.
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Historical Lacunae And Poetic Space - A Creative Approach To Old Norse Poetry And Poetics

by Beverliey Braune

~~77,25€~~ 61,80€ 20% OFF

 This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, the author explores critical approaches to Old Norse poetry and poetics, exploring the complex relationship between history, criticism and the creative reader.
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Digital Communication, Linguistic Diversity And Education

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 This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in todayâ€™s digitally networked world. The collection explores diverse digital venues in which language has different roles and functions, including education, politics, technology, media, and popular culture.
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The Writing Of Aletheia - Martin Heidegger: In Language

by Martin Travers

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 Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find new words for his radical form of philosophy. This book is the first study that provides a full account of Heideggerâ€™s language and writing style, revealing his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about his philosophical quest.
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Towards A Better Understanding Of Metonymy

by Wojciech Wachowski

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 The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The book argues for a conceptual rather than purely linguistic basis for metonymy and explores distinctions between metonymy and other figurative language.
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Cognitive Linguistic Explorations Of Writing In The Classroom

by Gwendolyn Williams, Peter Cobin e Rod Case

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