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Terminology in English Language Teaching
Nature and Use
Av Roger Berry
Häftad, 2010
1078 kr
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Based on original research and novel concepts, this book investigates the nature and use of terminology from linguistic and applied viewpoints. Throughout, problems with terminology, such as overuse by teachers and cases of synonymy and polysemy, are considered and solutions are offered.Part One …
Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse
Häftad, 2009
1414 kr
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This volume explores the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing. Despite the standardising pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation …
Les interactions quotidiennes en français et en anglais
De l'approche comparative à l'analyse des situations interculturelles
Häftad, 2010
2115 kr
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Cet ouvrage, accompagné d’un résumé en anglais de chaque chapitre, explore les liens entre comportements discursifs, contextes et valeurs culturelles à partir de plusieurs corpus d’interactions authentiques en anglais et en français. Il se donne pour objectif de mettre en évidence la spécificité …
Early Modern Northern English Lexis
A Literary Corpus-Based Study
Häftad, 2010
1426 kr
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The history of regional ‘Englishes’ in the Early Modern period still presents numerous lacunae that need to be filled, in order to provide a complete insight into the English linguistic setting at this time. This book aims to remedy these deficiencies in some measure. In particular, this monograph …
Pragmatics of Academic Writing
A Relevance Approach to the Analysis of Research Article Introductions
Häftad, 2010
1048 kr
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This volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing – paragraph structure, length and construction of …
Content and Foreign Language Integrated Learning
Contributions to Multilingualism in European Contexts
Av Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe, Juan Manuel Sierra m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
981 kr
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This book received the XV Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (XV Premio de Investigación de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) 2012.The present volume bears witness to the Europewide character of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) …
Professional English in the European Context: The EHEA Challenge
Av Angeles Linde López, Rosalia Crespo Jiménez
Häftad, 2010
1483 kr
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More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is demanding immediate reflections, serious …
Rhythm of Speech, Verse and Vocal Music: A New Theory
Häftad, 2010
1294 kr
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This book represents a step forward into the development of text-setting studies from an Optimality Theory perspective, concentrating on the strong bond between the rhythm of spoken language and that of text set to music. It provides an overview of the prosodic characteristics of spoken English and …
Studies on English Modality
In Honour of Frank Palmer
Av Anastasios Tsangalidis, Roberta Facchinetti
Häftad, 2009
1522 kr
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Inspired by Frank Palmer’s work, this book addresses a set of specific topics pertaining to the description of modality in English and places them in a broader context. A number of more general theoretical and typological matters are also raised, which bear upon the theory of syntax, semantics and …
Autonomy, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Av Jing Huang
Häftad, 2013
1648 kr
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This book offers readers a basic grounding in autonomy and related concepts of agency and identity in foreign language education. The ethnographic study explores how autonomy develops within the long-term process of EFL and TEFL learning in a Chinese social and institutional context. Through …
Academic Vocabulary in Context
Av David Hirsh
Häftad, 2010
923 kr
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Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of function in texts representing different subject areas. The book presents a framework which describes …
Lingua Franca English
The Role of Simplification and Transfer
Häftad, 2011
857 kr
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Questions of how to access and analyze the use of English as a global language are central to the study of the continuing spread of English as a vehicle of cross-cultural communication. The present book explores the relationship between the functions and forms of English as a Lingua Franca, and …
Lengua y Derecho: líneas de investigación interdisciplinaria
Laineas De Investigaciaon Interdisciplinaria
Av Luisa Chierichetti, Giovanni Garofalo
Häftad, 2011
1721 kr
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Este volumen recoge algunos estudios presentados en el IV Congreso Internacional del CERLIS (Centro de Investigación sobre Lenguajes con Fines Específicos), titulado Lengua y Derecho: Perspectivas Interculturales y celebrado en la Universidad de Bérgamo (Italia) del 19 al 21 de junio de 2009. …
Studies in Bilingual Education
Av Daniel Madrid Fernandez, Stephen Hughes
Häftad, 2011
1619 kr
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This book deals with bilingual education in general, but it pays special attention to bilingual education in monolingual areas. One central aim is to study the effects of bilingual programmes during the final stages of Primary and Secondary Education in contexts where the L2 (English) is not …
Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching
Av Tony Harris, Maria Moreno Jaen
Häftad, 2010
683 kr
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Derived from the successful International Seminar on Corpus Linguistics, New Trends in Language Teaching and Translation Studies: In Honour of John Sinclair (Granada, September 2008), organised by the research groups ADELEX (Assessing and Developing Lexical Competence) and ECPC (European Comparable …
Status and Development of N+N Sequences in Contemporary English Noun Phrases
Av Iria Pastor Gomez, Maurizio Gotti
Häftad, 2011
621 kr
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This volume aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of those nouns within the structure of the noun phrase which are referred to as N+N sequences (e.g. drug addiction, computer cluster). They are studied from three perspectives, namely their status as syntactic constructs, their evolution as …
Full-verb Inversion in Written and Spoken English
Av José Carlos Prado Alonso, Maurizio Gotti
Häftad, 2011
654 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive corpus-based analysis of full-verb inversion in present-day English. The author examines the distribution and pragmatic functions of full-verb inversion in different fictional and non-fictional text styles as well as in the spoken language. Surprisingly enough, …
Discourse, Identities and Genres in Corporate Communication
Sponsorship, Advertising and Organizational Communication
Av Paola Evangelisti Allori, Giuliana Elena Garzone
Häftad, 2011
1085 kr
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The studies collected in this volume contribute to shedding light on the multi-faceted complexity and stratification of identity within the context of corporate communication, by definition characterized by the interplay and intersection among genres, discursive practices and communicative events …
Speech Acts and Politeness across Languages and Cultures
Häftad, 2012
1476 kr
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Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in pragmatics, and it is also …
Cohesion: A Discourse Perspective
Häftad, 2011
1064 kr
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This book represents a fresh look at cohesion, the point of departure being Halliday and Hasan’s seminal Cohesion in English, which is examined in depth as are other notable approaches to cohesion such as Hoey’s Patterns of Lexis in Text. It also compares different studies of relevance to cohesion …
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise. Genres and Trends
Av Giuliana Elena Garzone, Maurizio Gotti
Häftad, 2011
1002 kr
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This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the fifth conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN V) held in Milan in September 2009, and mainly focuses on the relevance of discourse and communication to the world of business and organizations as …
Ways of the World’s Words
Language Contact in the Age of Globalization
Häftad, 2011
1879 kr
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This book investigates lexical borrowing processes of our era in a sociolinguistic context. Innovatively, it seeks to examine language contact in a comprehensive way, taking into account socio- and psycholinguistic aspects as well as implications for language politics.As the sociolinguistic focus …
Sociolinguistics of Language Education in International Contexts
Häftad, 2012
962 kr
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In many parts of the world the language education scenario is increasingly dynamic, as demographic, economic and social changes powerfully influence socio-political agendas in the sphere of language education. These in turn impact on complex issues such as linguistic pluralism, multiculturalism, …
Emergence of Patterns in Second Language Writing
A Sociocognitive Exploration of Lexical Trails
Häftad, 2012
1586 kr
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This book received the Cambridge/Language Teaching Brumfit Award 2010.Drawing upon a convergence of sociocultural theory and linguistic emergentism, this book presents a longitudinal investigation of the development of ESL users’ written lexicogrammatical patterning (collocations and colligations). …
Lengua Del Turismo
Gaeneros Discursivos y Terminologaia
Av Maria Vittoria Calvi, Giovanna Mapelli
Häftad, 2011
1174 kr
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Este volumen recoge los resultados del proyecto Linguaturismo , un programa de investigación interuniversitario sobre la lengua de la comunicación turística español-italiano, que consiste en la creación y el análisis de un extenso corpus de textos representativos de esta especialidad. Incluye …
Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication
Av Sandra Campagna, Giuliana Elena Garzone m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1182 kr
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This volume explores genres in Web-mediated communication in a discourse-analytical perspective, focusing in particular on genre change and evolution under the pressure of technological renewal, the availability of new affordances, and the consequent emergence of new generic conventions that …
Breaking Ground in Corpus-based Interpreting Studies
Av Francesco Straniero Sergio, Caterina Falbo
Häftad, 2012
960 kr
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This book focuses on interpretation corpora which is one of the major subjects of research in interpreting studies. It explores key issues such as corpus design and representativeness, as well as aims and challenges of the application of corpus-linguistics principles and methods to interpreting. …
Discourse and Identity in the Professions
Legal, Corporate and Institutional Citizenship
Av Vijay K. Bhatia, Paola Evangelisti Allori
Häftad, 2011
1032 kr
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Professional identities are not only constructed through discourse, but can also be studied and analysed through discourse and communication behaviour, which is probably the most powerful resource available for the understanding of their nature and function. The present volume investigates the ways …
Creativity and Innovation in Language Education
Häftad, 2013
1210 kr
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This volume sheds light on Creativity and Innovation in Language Education as key issues for the development of personal, professional and social competences and aims at highlighting the relevance of such concepts which education at any level, in any sector and at any time should continuously …
Language Factor in International Business
New Perspectives on Research, Teaching and Practice
Av Sylvain Dieltjens, Paul Gillaerts m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1358 kr
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This volume aims to explore what the field of business communication has accomplished so far and where it is heading. In addition to presenting new research, a number of the contributions included address the question of how business communication scholarship may be relevant to education and …
