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Cover of Linguistic Pragmatics of Intercultural Professional and Business Communication
by Svetlana N. Orlova, Elena N. Malyuga
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic...
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The Language of Patient Feedback

A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication

by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Craig Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019

The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this growing area, the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities. Developed as a descriptive term to account for the increasingly stratified processes and effects of migration...
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Project-Based Language Learning with Technology

Learner Collaboration in an EFL Classroom in Japan

by Michael Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

This book highlights the ways in which insights from technology-mediated project-based language learning research can contribute to our understanding of both learner interaction in specific cultural contexts but also of the role of technology in language learning more generally. The volume situates...
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The Discursive Construction of Blame

The Language of Public Inquiries

by James Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously the reserve of moral philosophers, sociologists...
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Tense and Narrativity

From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction

by Suzanne Fleischman
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation...
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by Douglas S. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal aspect theory and other linguistic approaches...
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by Valerie Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction,...
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Language, Literature and the Learner

Creative Classroom Practice

by Ronald Carter, John Mcrae
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature...
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Meaning, Mind and Communication

Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics – the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics – from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters...
Cover of A Modern Course in English Syntax
by Liliane Haegeman, Herman Wekker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002

This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description. It teaches them how to formulate syntactic arguments, and how to apply the tests in the analysis of sentences.
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by Olaf Koeneman, Hedde Zeijlstra
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017

Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like a rather chaotic set of arbitrary patterns, linguistic science has revealed that these patterns can actually be understood as the result of a small...
Cover of The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
by Paola Beninca, John Haiman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity,...
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Reflexivization

A Study in Universal Syntax

by Leonard M. Faltz
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

This title, first published in 1985, is the result of a cross-linguistic, comparative study of reflexives, with a major role played by syntactic conditions on reflexivization rules. The basic definitions outlined in the book lead to a discussion of morphological types, discussions about syntax, and...
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