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On Reading In Trilingual Learners - Conceptual, Educational And Pedagogical Arenas

by Izabela Olszak

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 The book aims at determining the notion of reading in trilingual learning environments, its external and internal factors as well as presenting the main characteristics of trilingual students.
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From «Jazz» And «Rap» To «Dzhaz» And «Rep» - Phonological Adaptation Of English Loanwords In Russian

by Kateryna Laidler

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 The book provides a significant insight into the complex process of English loanword adaptation in Russian. It is based on an in-depth analysis and comparison of a rich body of experimental data on the adaptation of both established and online loans of those English sounds absent from Russian phonemic inventory. The analysis is couched within the Optimality-Theoretic framework. The uncovered patterns offer valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on loanword phonology.
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Improving Academic Listening And Note-Taking Skills - A Study In Foreign Learners Strategy Training

by Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasiska

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 The book investigates the effectiveness of long-term strategy training on how successfully and efficiently students listen to lectures and take notes. It is centered around a longitudinal study designed to measure to what extent a specially designed course allows 1st year undergraduate students to improve their academic skills. The research presented is grounded in theoretical perspectives on general listening comprehension, discourse processing, and teaching second language subskills. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in tertiary education and providing college and university students with courses useful in their academic performance. The readers might also gain insights into long-term research methodology of which the book gives a detailed account.
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In Search Of The Cultural Motivation In Language - Girl And Woman In James Joyces Dubliners

by Izabela Jarosz

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 This book explores the relationship between language, culture and human mind in cognitive linguistics perspective. It offers a panchronic analysis of girl and woman as conceptualised in James Joyceâ€™s "Dubliners" by highlighting the cultural motivation behind the word.
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Polish Consonant Clusters In The British Mouth - A Study In Online Loanword Adaptation

by Marek Radomski

57,64€ + 10% CARD

 The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent in English, by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched within the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for the phonological approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon and shows that the proposed perspective allows for a deep insight into the nature of the collected language data.
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Centres And Peripheries In Celtic Linguistics

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 This book examines aspects of Celtic linguistics, including Irish initial mutations from a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. It also analyses deverbal adjectives and assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, and communication, language transmission, language change and language policy in Irish, Welsh, Breton and Sorbian.
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The Syntax Of Deverbal Compound Adjectives In English - Internal Structure And Categorial Identity

by Sebastian Wasak

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 This volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e.g. pencil-drawn, action-packed, risk-taking, time-consuming. The study, couched in the current Distributed Morphology framework, uses rich linguistic data to investigate the syntactic behaviour of English participial compounds, in particular their ability to occur in typically adjectival and verbal contexts. The main claim of this work is that the verbal syntactic layers are not universally projected in the internal structure of adjectival synthetic compounds, the most important consequence of which is that linguistic formations derived from lexical verbs, even in combination with their arguments, need not be deverbal in the morphosyntactic sense.
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Valency In Verbs And Verb-Related Structures

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 The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and synthetic compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Ga and Bantu languages). The proposed analyses are couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.
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Phonetics And Phonology In Action

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 The present volume is a collection of 14 papers written by several international scholars who examine a variety of descriptive and theoretical issues topical in current phonetic and phonological research. This is done through a meticulous analysis of a rich body of data, often obtained experimentally, taken from such languages as Gothic, Sanskrit, Old Chinese, Malaylam, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, English and Portuguese as well as through theoretical considerations which carry broader implications for the study of sound systems.
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Motivating The Symbolic - Towards A Cognitive Theory Of The Linguistic Sign

by Hubert Kowalewski

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 The book outlines a new approach to motivation in language. The approach proposes a cognitive theory of the linguistic sign, partly in opposition to classical Saussurean linguistics. The new theory is inspired and informed by Charles S. Peirceâ€™s semiotics, especially the distinction between the icon, the index, and the symbol.
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English Joyful Vocabulary Semantic Developments

by Angelina Yko

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 The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of joy («bliss», «cheer», «delight», «dream», «game», «gladness», «glee», «joy», and «mirth»). The analysis, carried out within the framework of cognitive and historical linguistics, employs the notions of cognitive domains, profiling, and categorisation. The author adopts a panchronic perspective, according to which language reflects the way speakers experience the world. This allows her to provide a new insight into the intrinsic nature of semantic change.
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Constraints On Structure And Derivation In Syntax, Phonology And Morphology

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 The papers collected in this volume explore and discuss the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The analyzed phenomena come from such languages as English, Old English, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Icelandic.
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Phonology, Its Faces And Interfaces

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 The papers collected in this volume examine selected aspects of the interaction of phonology with phonetics, morphosyntax and the lexicon in a variety of languages including Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch and Hawaiian. In order to approach the role and ways of expressing extraphonological information in phonology, the international contributors adopt different methods of analysis (data gathering, experiments, theoretical discussions), couched in various theoretical frameworks (such as Optimality Theory and Government Phonology), which reveal both the multifarious faces and interfaces of modern phonological research.

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