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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross-cultural pragmatics. Cross-cultural pragmatics involves the use of contrastive linguistic...

The burgeoning field of sociosyntax brings together two prominent intellectual traditions within linguistics: (variationist) sociolinguistics and formal morphosyntactic theory. However, the state of the field is not always clear to newcomers to the field...

In this book, Peirce's logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome,...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

Topics in Korean Language and Culture: Volume Two covers 12 essential topics relating to both traditional and contemporary Korean culture and society for advanced Korean learners.Each chapter consists of listening and reading passages, key expressions...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739774028Author Jackson BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Infinite WayPublisher Infinite WayWeight(grams) 549g

Meaning lies at the very heart of the development of language. Therefore, it is not surprising that the linguists have long been fascinated by the study of meaning, from the early days of the discipline to the present. Over time, the approach to meaning...

The papers compiled in the present volume reflect the key theme of the most recent Duo Colloquium sessions - contextuality. The psychological notion of context has been central to translation research for decades, and it has evolved along with the...

Through the use of realistic and engaging lectures, Lecture Ready Second Edition prepares students for the demands and atmosphere of the higher-education classroom. Note-taking strategies focus on accurate and concise recording of class material...

Network uses social networking to link learners for common goals - shared language success and professional growth. Social networking themes are incorporated through a variety of classroom-based and online tasks. These provide an authentic and meaningful...

The Book of Proceedings features a selection of papers presented at the 54th Linguistics Colloquium: "Linguistic Encoding / Decoding in Global Contexts," held from September 19th-22nd, 2019, at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow City University...

This volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e.g. pencil-drawn, action-packed, risk-taking, time-consuming. The study, couched in the current Distributed...

For over four decades, textbooks have been enhanced with digital components, and today, it is almost impossible to find a textbook that does not contain any. Does this mean that textbooks have been fully digitalized and that we have reached a point where...

The book aims to demonstrate the diverse shapes that foreign language teaching and learning can have in various educational contexts, in terms of age groups (children, adolescents and adults), learning purposes (general language instruction vs. language...

Die Texte des Buches sind im Kontext einer medien- und kulturaufmerksamen Fremd- und Zweitsprachendidaktik verankert und stellen Aspekte heraus, die in der Diskussion zum didaktischen Potenzial von Linguistic Landscapes noch wenig Beachtung fanden. Die...

The book deals with the analysis of the expression of Grammatical Relations in spoken Italian verbless sentences. Unlike previous studies, this corpus-driven research aims at showing that it is possible to identify Grammatical-Relations in verbless...

Read and discover all about the sun and rain. Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.Book InformationISBN 9780194646802Format...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835663929Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint TranzlatyPublisher TranzlatyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835663837Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint TranzlatyPublisher TranzlatyWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835663912Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TranzlatyPublisher TranzlatyWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

Prosody is strongly influenced by situational variation along conceptional parameters, such as the degree of communicative collaboration, the degree of dialogicity, the degree of planning, or the degree of familiarity between partners. Prosodic research,...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too. This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life...

Der Sammelband umfasst theoretisch-konzeptionelle und empirische Beitrage aus der Romanistik, Germanistik / DaF-DaZ, Anglistik und den Bildungswissenschaften. Die Beitrage beleuchten unterschiedliche Dimensionen von Mehrsprachigkeit und diskutieren ihre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989637942Author Hallyu PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Hallyu PressPublisher Hallyu PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

No detailed description available for "Readings in Romance Linguistics".Book InformationISBN 9789027923035Author James M. AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 847g

This publication examines the complex phenomenon of language contact in its various facets, both for its subject matter and for the variety of interrelationships that come into play, especially as a consequence of its close links with English. The data...

Human ratings are subject to various forms of error and bias. Since the early days of performance assessment, this problem has been sizeable and persistent. For example, expert raters evaluating the quality of an essay, an oral communication, or a work...

This volume offers a wealth of research in the fields of technology-enhanced language teaching, translation and interpreting. It contains articles ranging from the creation of podcasts for improving students' speaking skills to automatic speech...

The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since then, the language has been developing in relative isolation from the European Polish context. In this...

Read and discover all about eyes. Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.Book InformationISBN 9780194646291Format PaperbackPage Count...

Read and discover all about farms. Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.Book InformationISBN 9780194646833Format PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949650983Author Ahmad Al-MasriFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint LingualismPublisher LingualismWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835663974Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint TranzlatyPublisher TranzlatyWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm

Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on the occurrence of single modal auxiliaries. However, cross-linguistically, modal auxiliaries can co-occur with one another, but under interesting restrictions. This monograph examines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835667071Author Carlo CollodiFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint TranzlatyPublisher TranzlatyWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 22mm

This volume deals with the interplay between personal identity and language, with a special focus on interactions involving political correctness, ideological positioning and minority groups. Differently from many studies adopting only either an abstract...

This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The discussion starts with a proposal of extending the...