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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826481733Author Alwin FillFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Continuum Publishing CorporationPublisher Continuum Publishing CorporationWeight(grams)...

In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding...

Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education is aimed at applied linguists who are interested in understanding more about the learning of novice teachers in their classes. The 21 studies in this volume provide information on the complexity of...

This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis which was submitted in April 1993. The main extension is a chapter on evaluation of the system de scribed in Chapter 8 as this is clearly an issue which was not treated in the original version. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699145695Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a relational action constructed in interaction through pre-existing patterns and captures the features of ritual...

Dueling Discourses offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of the linguistic and discursive forms utilized by opposing lawyers in their closing arguments during criminal trials. Laura Felton Rosulek analyzes how these arguments construct contrasting...

A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what discursive identities are constructed; and how interpersonal...

Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer...

This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses,...

Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293351Author Jakub WaszczukFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293054Author Paul R KroegerFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287879Author Aviva ShimelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530019109Author Donald AlburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across...

Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English language, replace stereotypical language and improve communication skills. Also included is advice and...

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular subclasses of adjectival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170710746Author John MapletoftFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 286g

When studying the two concepts of tense and aspect linguists have commonly kept apart their semantic and syntactic properties. The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified...

This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013294617Author Bernhard WalchliFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289613Author Sanghoun SongFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a widely accepted instrument for assessing second and foreign language ability. It is used by the Foreign Language Institute, the Defense Language Institute, Educational Testing Service, the American Council on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253052Author Ahmed FakhriFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282971Author John B CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 608g

This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description of language content. The book explores how Cognitive Linguistics offers teachers a description of language that can translate into practical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780699168267Author Multiple ContributorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g

In contrast to traditional approaches of mainstream psycholinguists, the authors of Communicating with One Another approach spontaneous spoken discourse as a dynamic process, rich with structures, patterns, and rules other than conventional grammar and...

Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more...

MARK ARONOFF The articles included in this section represent recent research on morpholog ical classes which has been independently performed by a number of investi gators. This work was presented at a symposium that was organized as part of the...

In this important book, Surma combines threads from ethical, political, communications, sociological, feminist and discourse theories to explore the impact of writing in a range of contexts and illustrate the ways in which it can strengthen social...

One of the most notorious differences between the academic production on management carried out in Europe, compared to that in the United States, is the attention that European scholars give to the managerial discourse and rhetorics, especially in their...

This introductory study offers a critical overview of the major works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. Professor Mustafa's main concern is with literary issues, but historical, political and cultural questions are also addressed, with...

This volume systematically applies the accumulated knowledge of developmental psycholinguistics to the field of language instruction. The first part of the book draws together a wide range of theoretical material from developmental psycholinguistics...

DNA fingerprinting is a revolutionary technique that enables scientists to match minute tissue samples and facilitates scientific studies on the composition, reproduction, and evolution of animal and plant populations. As a tool for positive...

This book explores the relationship between conversation analysis and applied linguistics, demonstrating how the analysis of institutional talk can contribute to professional practice. With a foreword by Paul Drew, the core of the collection deals with...

Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state...

This volume brings together original research in the four areas of L2 collocation learner corpora, L2 collocation lexicographic and classroom materials, L2 collocation knowledge assessment, and L2 collocation learner processes. Each area is covered by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292996Author Kofi YakpoFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g