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Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language
The Bodo Verb
Häftad, 2017
907 kr
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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 …
Cognitive Linguistic Explorations of Writing in the Classroom
Av Rod Case, Gwendolyn Williams m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
815 kr
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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’ …
Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives
New Perspectives in English and French
Av Raffaella Antinucci, Maria Giovanna Petrillo
Häftad, 2017
1063 kr
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The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology». Structured into two sections, …
Discours et terminologie dans la presse scientifique française (1699-1740)
La construction des lexiques de la botanique et de la chimie
Av Claudio Grimaldi, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1361 kr
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Ce volume analyse le rapport étroit qui existe entre la structuration des connaissances et l’évolution terminologique et langagière dans la presse scientifique française, en tant que genre textuel, au cours des quarante premières années du XVIII e siècle. L’auteur part de l’hypothèse que, pendant …
Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy
Häftad, 2019
815 kr
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«Scholars in cognitive linguistics will find his points helpful as reminders of what to teach our own students, for his ideas are enlightening enough to stimulate more innovative research in this field. Furthermore, the author’s employment of diverse methods such as sample analysis and …
Writing of Aletheia
Martin Heidegger: In Language
Häftad, 2019
791 kr
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Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find words – new words, both descriptive and analytical – for his radical form of philosophy. This tendency can be traced from Being and Time, where he elaborated an entirely new vocabulary for his ontological enquiry; to Contributions to …
Digital Communication, Linguistic Diversity and Education
Häftad, 2020
755 kr
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This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in today’s digitally networked world. It aims to examine (1) how language(s) are (re)contextualized and (re)localized concerning other languages, multimodalities, semiotic …
Syntaxe Des Pronoms Clitiques En Arabe
Étude Comparative
Av Mostafa Rechad, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1183 kr
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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 …
Interactions in New Academic Discourses
Genre and Discipline
Häftad, 2022
676 kr
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This book explores how interactions are achieved in new academic discourses, from both cross-genre and cross-disciplinary perspectives. By adopting a corpus-based analysis, it takes a detailed look at academic blogs, online book reviews, the abbreviated summary of article highlights, and the …
How adjectival can a participle be?
Subsective Gradience in English 2nd Participles
Häftad, 2022
752 kr
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«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 …
Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space
A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
Häftad, 2022
973 kr
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This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. It considers lacunae in the history, criticism and scholarly translations of Old Norse poetry into English through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, demonstrating …
Methodological Considerations in Morphological Processing Research
Av Zhaohong Wu
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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This book falls in the broad subject area of psycholinguistics and second-language acquisition. More specifically, this book is written for researchers stepping into the field of morphological processing so that they are not overwhelmed by the large number of individual studies and do not lose …
Academic Style Proofreading
An Introduction
Häftad, 2023
676 kr
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«The contribution of Dr Doerr’s book is beyond measure. Her research relies on highly sophisticated methodology with invaluable practical applications in academic style editing for scholars who are non-native speakers of English. Academic Style Proofreading stands to become vital for readers from …
Form, Meaning and Aspect in the German Impersonal Passive
Häftad, 2022
705 kr
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«Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly "exceptional" passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as …
Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Reduplication in the Major Languages of the Middle East and Iran
Av Dariush Borbor, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
715 kr
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«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 …
Perception and Acquisition of Chinese Polysemy
Av Haiyan Liang, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
720 kr
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Polysemous lexical items have multiple senses associated with a single form, and these senses are interrelated. Polysemy is a universal and omnipresent phenomenon, providing a robust tool to convey creatively our ideas and thoughts. As a result, polysemy presents challenges for second language (L2) …
Teaching English to Chinese Students
Voices from UK Higher Education
Av Clare Watson, Graeme Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
596 kr
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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 …
Modality in the Qurʾān
Av Yehudit Dror
Häftad, 2026
601 kr
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This book presents a pioneering linguistic study of modality in the Qurʾān. Although there is considerable research on modal expressions in modern Arabic, modality in Classical Arabic and the Qurʾān in particular have not been examined in a systematic linguistic framework. This volume helps fill …
Semantics for Translation Students
Arabic–English–Arabic
Av Ali Almanna
Häftad, 2016
795 kr
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This book is an introduction to semantics for students and researchers who are new to the field, especially those interested in Arabic–English translation and Arabic–English contrastive studies. The book first presents key concepts in semantics, pragmatics, semiotics, syntax and morphology and …
Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese
Häftad, 2012
730 kr
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In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the …
Discursive Constructions around Terrorism in the "People’s Daily" (China) and "The Sun" (UK) before and after 9.11
A Corpus-based Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis
Av Yufang Qian
Häftad, 2010
859 kr
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How have media constructions around terrorism changed since 9.11? This book analyses the ways that language is employed in the media to reference discourses around terrorism in different social systems and doctrines, and illustrates the ways in which news reporting around terrorism is filtered …
Global English and Arabic
Issues of Language, Culture, and Identity
Av Ahmad Al-Issa, Laila S. Dahan
Häftad, 2011
980 kr
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This volume contains selected chapters from researchers and scholars concerning global English in the Arab world. It brings a new perspective to the phenomenon of global English as today’s lingua franca by focusing on an area of the world that is troubled by the spread of English. The book goes to …
Researching Intertextual Reading
Av Stephen Bax
Häftad, 2013
1025 kr
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Intertextuality in reading – namely the way in which written texts refer to other texts – has recently attracted attention in the field of linguistics and related disciplines. This book offers a unique look at the operation of intertextuality in real-world texts and the role of readers’ cognitive …
Perceiving Identity through Accent
Attitudes towards Non-Native Speakers and their Accents in English
Häftad, 2013
896 kr
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Given the increasing use of English worldwide and in intercultural communication, there is a growing interest in attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English. Research on attitudes towards non-native English accents is therefore important because of concerns about positive and negative …
One Word, Two Genders
Categorization and Agreement in Dutch Double Gender Nouns
Häftad, 2016
1097 kr
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Dutch is a peculiar language in that certain nouns have more than one gender. This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates this anomaly. First assigned a lexicological classification, the DGNs are then analysed contextually by means of a corpus study. …
Past Tense in Polish and French
A Semantic Approach to Translation
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
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This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Grounded in the field of aspectual research, this study bridges the gap between theory and practice by presenting a set of equivalency rules for Polish past imperfective verb forms and …
Dynamic Linguistics
Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and other Precursors of the Dynamic Approach to Language Description
Av Iwan Wmffre
Häftad, 2013
1114 kr
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Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Linguistics approaches the description of the complex phenomenon that is human language by focusing on this important but often neglected aspect.This book …
Corpus-Based Study of Nominalization in Translations of Chinese Literary Prose
Three Versions of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Av Yu Hou
Häftad, 2014
877 kr
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This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English versions of the Chinese novel Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).Previous studies have explored the relevance of the cultural and linguistic …
Elements of Hermeneutic Pragmatics
Agency and Interpretation
Av Tahir Wood
Häftad, 2014
825 kr
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Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act theory, are limiting and out of step with the linguistic science of recent decades.Using a …
Unified and Integrative Theory of Language
Häftad, 2016
933 kr
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Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to some extent non-verbal) communication. Grammar is merely the systematized aspect of language: by drawing on data from oral communication in a number of …
