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The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language (L2) proficiency development over time and/or in relation to L2 instruction. It also reports the findings of a longitudinal study that aimed to examine...

John of Damascus is one of the most remarkable figures among the Church Fathers. The reception of his theological and philosophical works among the Orthodox Slavs in the Middle Ages has been comparatively well researched - unlike that of his homiletic...

These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and supports English across the curriculum, making the series perfect for CLIL...

The book discusses the sociolinguistic status and prestige of the Polish language and the changes in the national identity of Catholics in Belarus due to the switch from Polish to Belarusian in the Catholic Church. The research shows that the national...

This book, part of the series "Synergy: Translation Studies, Literature, Linguistics", intends to gather new perspectives in the field of linguistics. It particularly deals with the cross-cultural aspects of language focusing on the themes such as...

Die Schwerpunkte des 50. Bandes sind vielfaltig und reichen von der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven uber die Bewertung des Sprachgebrauchs in verschiedenen soziopolitischen Kontexten bis hin zu...

This book comprises 30 selected papers that were presented at the 5th World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties (WCPCL) held at the University of Mainz (Germany). The conference was organized by the Working Group on...

This book uses a complex systems perspective to describe how a language school in Greece evolved, and at times resisted change. Starting with an accessible introduction to complex systems theory (CST), it uses a complexity perspective to interpret data...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962752053Author Matthew AldrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint LingualismPublisher LingualismWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 10mm

Nach der internationalen Tagung, die an der Universitat zu Creteil am 10. Marz 2017 zu Ehren Jean-Marie Zembs abgehalten wurde, ist diesem nun der vorliegende Band ausgewahlter Beitrage gewidmet. Die ForscherInnen aus unterschiedlichen Landern heben...

The aim of this monograph is an attempt to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy...

The bipartite work titled Philosophical and Translatological Wanderings in Moominvalley explores Tove Jansson's renowned children's classic to illumine its inherent double-address mode. Part one discusses the plentiful philosophi-cal hypotexts of the...

En este libro presentamos una novedosa taxonomia para la categorizacion de los errores ortograficos en zonas de contacto linguistico. La taxonomia ha sido disenada como resultado de la combinacion del analisis contrastivo entre las ortografias del ingles...

This book is an outcome of the 9th ELT Research Conference organised by Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The papers in this volume illustrate some of the key research interests and priorities for English language teaching in Turkey and provide...

This book aims to provide a detailed study of young adult fiction concentrating on Mexican teenage (im)migrants to the United States and their search for identity. In its quest to define young adult (im)migration literature as a genre, the first chapter...

The Global World is a pivotal formula in present-day "Newspeak". The book's leitmotif - if it is true that the faces of today's global world are manifold - is that language opens to the other, that the word's boundaries are the multiple boundaries of the...

Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations incommunication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction of the surroundingworld helps the child to better conceptualise, objectify, and reify abstractnotions...

Research on narrative production plays a central role in linguistics, psycholinguistics and language acquisition. Narrative elicitation allows researchers to investigate specific linguistic structures and the processes involved in their acquisition in...

Linguistic research has always, either explicitly or implicitly, dealt with the interaction of linguistic phenomena and extralinguistic reality. Whether we are talking about targeted analyses of the nature of their interaction or whether this interaction...

Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexity of fictional characters "speaking in tongues" in different genres and for different...

The volume Urban Voices presents studies, analysing how speakers of Russian convey social meanings across a variety of speech situations. Rooted in quantitative and qualitative methodological frameworks, the contributions show how various linguistic,...

The Festschrift volume consists of 42 contributions by 55 authors from 13 countries. The papers, written in Catalan, English, French, Russian and Spanish, treat data from these and some other languages (Arabic, BCS [Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian], Czech,...

This book offers a collection of research contributions that delve into crucial aspects within two intricately connected realms of knowledge: Education and the Humanities. It explores pivotal topics, including tutoring across diverse educational levels,...

This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of...

Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaounde's Linguistic Landscape is examined with respect to its multilingual and multimodal nature. Next...

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of English Linguistics and features selected contributions from the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. The contributions comprise studies (i) that focus...

This book comprises a compilation of papers authored by researchers who took part in the 5th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial, and Institutional Translation held at the University of Alicante in 2023. We hope that this...

The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal...

This book bridges the gap between phonological and Interpreting Studies. It first presents interdisciplinary studies on interpreters and interpreting receivers. The subsequent chapters discuss phonology, phonological transfer and bilingual processing...

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These questions and more are addressed in the various contributions in this volume, thus expanding the boundaries of...

Dentro del aula es importante adquirir una competencia cultural (conocer la cultura meta), que dara como resultado hablantes que se adecuan a la situacion comunicativa, pero tambien competencia intercultural, enfocada en desarrollar hablantes...

This book intends to present the challenges and new perspectives in the field oftranslation studies in parallel with the improvements in the academic and scientificworld with a specific focus on the themes of translation studies, ecocriticism,subtitling,...

This book investigates how bilingualism affects children's language, cognitive and narrative abilities. The data sample derives from 209 8-12 years old bilingual children, in three different targeted languages (Greek-English, Greek-German,...

The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family.The Uralic languages are spoken...

In this volume, first published in 1963, Cambridge lecturer R. G. Popperwell provides a fascinating and highly accessible guide to the correct pronunciation of Norwegian. In a text rich with examples and useful explanations, Popperwell introduces the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366518746Author Gesellschaft von GelehrtenFormat PaperbackPage Count 694Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366348497Author Friedrich GerstackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366295616Author Friedrich GerstackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366133871Author International Correspondence SchoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780365969648Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...