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by John Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often...
by Barbara Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them. Reference is at the centre of debate among linguists and philosophers and, as Barbara Abbott shows, this has been the case for centuries. She begins by examining the basic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include...
The Languages of East and Southeast Asia
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains wide-ranging and accessible discussions of every important aspect of the languages of the region, including word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology,...
by Lia Blaj-Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book critically refines and adds depth to current understandings and practices in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EMI (English-Medium Instruction), using empirical research examining the experiences of English language learning and use of undergraduate and postgraduate international students...
Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics
Studies Presented to Manfred Bierwisch
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Materialitaet und Medialitaet der sprachlichen Kommunikation - Materiality and Mediality of Linguistic Communication
Akten des 47. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Olsztyn 2012 - Proceedings of the 47 th Linguistics Colloquium in Olsztyn 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge des 47. Linguistischen Kolloquiums an der Universität Olsztyn (Polen) zum Thema Materialität und Medialität der sprachlichen Kommunikation. In den beiden letzten Jahrzehnten haben die Medien in allen Lebensbereichen immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Wahl des...
Semantics
Defining the Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology. As a result, it is difficult to define the study of semantics as an actual discipline without discovering what each...
by Diana Eades
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Written by one of the pioneers of the field of forensic linguistics, this collection presents 30 years of research and writings that focus on the distinct dialect of English spoken in Australia known as Aboriginal English. The implications of Diana Eades's work within the education, legal, and social...
Attitudes of German Non-Native Speakers of English Towards British Varieties
A Case Study on the Example of the TV-Series 'Downton Abbey'
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 2,7, LMU Munich (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Accents of English, language: English, abstract: The reason to conduct this study lies within the question of how German (and therefore non-native) speakers of...
Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese
Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to their...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.
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Problems and Perspectives
Studies in the Modern French Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining...
Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language
A Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This guide clearly and succinctly presents the basic tenets of teaching foreign languages specifically for Arabic teachers. Consolidating findings from second language acquisition (SLA) research and applied linguistics, it covers designing curricula, theory and methods, goals, testing, and research,...