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The papers that make up this collection were either presented at the CETaLL (Commission on Educational Technology and Language Learning) Colloquium The Autonomous Learner and the Media held as part of the 10th AILA World Congress in Amsterdam, August...

Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Foerderpreis der Landeshauptstadt Salzburg zur Foerderung von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Literatur ausgezeichnet. The book addresses the issue of Universal Grammar (UG) and parameter resetting in Second Language (L2) acquisition...

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...

This book is designed for beginning and seasoned speech-language pathologists and others in regular and special education who work with students demonstrating oral and written language problems. The intent of this book is to provide a resource of...

The English word infant is derived from the Latin word meaning unable to speak, reflecting the general sense that the transition from infancy into childhood is marked by the production of the child's first word. However, modern methods for measuring...

Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theoretical linguistics and pedagogical teacher training. This book seeks to bridge that gap. Using engaging examples from a wide variety of languages, it provides an innovative overview of linguistic...

Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized...

Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the latest avenues of research and practice in the dynamic field of Specialised English. Ken Hyland and Lillian Wong present 17...

From tech giants to plucky startups, the world is full of companies boasting that they are on their way to replacing human interpreters, but are they right? Interpreters vs Machines offers a solid introduction to recent theory and research on human and...

Conflict, Culture and Communication provides a coherent, research-informed overview of conflict and intercultural communication. Aimed at encouraging and enabling conflict prevention, this book contributes to a better understanding of the factors that...

If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is...

Uniquely interdisciplinary and accessible, The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication is the ideal text for undergraduate introductory courses in Intercultural Communication, International Communication and Cross-cultural Communication...

Anita Pomerantz is one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis (CA), a field that has grown from a small and marginalized subfield into a significant, international, multidisciplinary field of inquiry. CA now enjoys widespread acceptance and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108490191Author Aleksandra GnachFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with critical discourse studies to...

Encounters involving different cultures and languages are increasingly the norm in the era of globalization. While considerable attention has been paid to how languages and cultures transform in the era of globalization, their characteristic features...

Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284275Author Duncan PoupardFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Focusing on the substitution and numeration of modern Chinese, this is the third volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists. In this volume, the author first introduces the different types of...

Focusing on the fundamental grammatical units and construction in modern Chinese, the title is the first volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by Wang Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists. Based on the corpus of two classic...

This book is both research report and performance piece. Here is a team of researchers as they study communication on the volleyball court. And here are the voices and actions of the volleyball coach and his players as they practise and play. Research in...

Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an 'add-on' to spoken language? Why do...

Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority...

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar,...

-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns...

Multilingualism and Ageing provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches,...

This book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to categorial grammar, a type of formal grammar which analyses expressions as functions or according to a function-argument relationship. The book's focus is on linguistic, computational, and...

This volume contains selected papers on linguistics from the conference organized by the Jagiellonian University Student's English Society from April 7 to 8 in 2008 in Krakow. The authors were all students of the Jagiellonian University and the...

Despite the current explosion of interest in cognitive linguistics, there has so far been relatively little research by cognitive linguists on narrative comprehension. Catherine Emmott draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence...

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifies the most important characteristics of this research and its historical developments, before the main part...

This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652224Author Barron BrainerdFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447106269Author Aynur AbishFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856388Author Ross PetrasFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Bestselling introduction to English morphology, now revised and updatedWhat exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of...

The Relationship Between Various Types of Teachers' Language and Comprehension exposes new research on the methods of successfully teaching Japanese as a second language. It breaks down the comprehension process into immediate comprehension, delayed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462853Author Pam PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 172g

This learner's dictionary for students whose native language is other than English is a unique and educational aid for more than 3,400 words. Author Raja Nasr details primary stress, part(s) of speech, and various meanings in simple English. Nasr also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474326222Author David R OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa EditorialWeight(grams) 157g

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something...