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With the second volume of West Iranian Dialect Materials thirteen short-stories in Luri (Baxtiari) dialect from the collection of D. L. Lorimer are published. The stories appear in transcription, and are followed by translation and an extensive glossary...

An introduction to the pronunciation and phonetics of French for English-speaking students. Recent research has shown that adult learners can achieve good and even near-native pronunciation by using a phonetics-based approach. This book is the result of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887563710Author Morry SoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Schreiber PublishingPublisher Schreiber PublishingWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 266mm...

Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses provides foreign and second language teachers with easy and practical additions they can make to their existing curricula to help their students develop real-world professional skills and prepare to...

The specific-and varied-ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for...

In the last part of the twentieth century, the human sciences witnessed three paradigmatic turns' that made it possible to comprehend each individual discipline in the light of a unitary object of study, the text: the pragmatic turn within linguistics,...

Errington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java. Employing data from texts, interviews, observed speech, and questionnaires, he shows a progressive leveling in the language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104807Author Shimelis MazengiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447104050Author Bo IsakssonFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447103121Author Bo IsakssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447102650Author Ablahad LahdoFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447056762Author Ruth L SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5390g

Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the Mycenaean Greeks and their time. This Companion aims at not only summarizing the results of current research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700166573Author Ela FilipponeFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

There is great interest in recent scholarship in the study of metropolitan cultures in India as evident from the number of books that have appeared on cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Though Hyderabad has a rich archive of history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954902019Author Isabella BerivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 1720g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366519743Author Gesellschaft von GelehrtenFormat HardbackPage Count 692Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task. It offers an overview of how think-alouds have...

With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an...

The Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon is an invaluable resource for all learners of Arabic. It contains some 8,000 entries, arranged into themes, including flora and fauna, food and drink, the human body, health care, the family, housing, clothing,...

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a...

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological survey of 400 languages, it is shown that the traditional conception that...

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context...

Can the euro challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar as a global currency? From the time Europe's joint money was born, many have predicted that it would soon achieve parity with the dollar or possibly even surpass it. In reality, however, the euro...

This first linguistic study of British Sign Language is written for students of linguistics, for deaf and hearing sign language researchers, for teachers and social workers for the deaf. The author cross-refers to American Sign Language, which has...

Idiomatic expressions are the 'salt and pepper' of any language. They give Spanish its colour and imagery, its richness and variety. From set phrases and idioms to metaphorical expressions and proverbs, these essential components allow users to add...

With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture offers extensive coverage of Japanese culture spanning from the end of the Japanese Imperialist period in 1945, right up to the present day. Entries...

This second edition of Georgian: A Learner's Grammar is a completely revised and updated guide to the fascinating and most widely spoken language of the Caucasus. Presenting the language in the form of dialogues and reading passages, full attention is...

How often have you looked up an English word in a German dictionary only to be confronted by a bewildering array of German equivalents? Which is the correct word for the context in question? Thirty years' experience in teaching Germanic languages at...

The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved. A variety of translation issues...

Intermediate students and their teachers will find this compact manual an invaluable resource for essay-writing and debate in German. Thirty sections provide questions and vocabulary on a range of contemporary issues guaranteed to stimulate thought and...

Asi somos los espanoles provides advanced students with a genuine insight into Spanish culture via a range of practical activities and exercises. The courses includes many unscripted recordings of interviews with Spaniards from a variety of geographical...

Dictionaries are among the most frequently consulted books, yet we know remarkably little about them. Who makes them? Where do they come from? What do they offer? How can we evaluate them?The Dictionary of Lexicography provides answers to all these...

Connecting words and phrases are essential for discussion, clarity and fluency in any language. French is particularly reliant on connecting language: also and in fact have around 15 equivalent words and expressions in French. This is the first...

Jaschke's classic work, first published in 1881 and still invaluable to students, is now reprinted in paperback for the first time. The dictionary is essential for textual interpretation, particularly of Buddhist philosophy. Sanskrit equivalents are...

Manual of Business Italian is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using Italian. Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, this manual comprises five parts: * A 6000-word,...

Manual of Business French is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using French. Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, this manual comprises five parts: * A 6000-word,...

Manual of Business German is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using foreign languages. Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, it comprises five parts: * A 6000-word, two-way...

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish. The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a...

Escrita por completo en espanol, la Enciclopedia de Linguistica Hispanica proporciona un tratamiento detallado de los campos principales y subsidiarios de la linguistica hispanica. Las entradas se organizan alfabeticamente en tres secciones principales: ...