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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639102697Author Karin SpeedyFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 331g

The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called '37'. The group and its journal offered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988875451Author Jimmy DongFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Palm Circle PressPublisher Palm Circle PressWeight(grams) 154g

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars. Examining the Buddhist contemplative tradition and its extensive writings from an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors bridge the gap between...

This volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Lodz, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639168952Author Zhila MohammadniaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 313g

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782490057771Author Eric HagleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Research-Publishing.NetPublisher Research-Publishing.NetWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783734789465Author Andrzej CirockiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 213g

This comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language consists of six parts. Following the introductory section, it explores the Japanese lexicon, grammatical foundations, major clause types, clause linkage, and language usage. The discussion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966478795Author Ali Abdulla AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Phoenix PublishersPublisher Phoenix PublishersWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636630649Author Thomas CaucuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782227735200Author Amir Abbas RavaeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Success Publications SarPublisher Success Publications SarWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989416952Author Ratnakar NaraleFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint PC Plus Ltd.Publisher PC Plus Ltd.Weight(grams) 898g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636630656Author Thomas CaucuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 590g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736634042Author Sandra RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint UnilxPublisher UnilxWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639177961Author Kazue KatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639131147Author Gabriela CusenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241643188Author Horace DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint BiblioLifePublisher BiblioLifeWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801347242Author The Language LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Susan KnightPublisher Susan KnightWeight(grams) 127g

This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639085969Author Vass EdinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 118g

Edited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858-1942), this work was first published in two huge volumes between 1911 and 1922. Comprising detailed studies of several Native American languages, Volume 1 has been split into two parts...

Originally published in 1928, this book was written to provide a guide to the translation of French into English, from beginner's level up to the standard of the School Certificate Examination. Numerous exercises are included, together with vocabularies...

Originally published in 1906, this study by E. C. Quiggin was, as its author put it, 'the first serious attempt at a scientific description of a northern dialect of Irish'. Quiggin maintained that collecting linguistic data from the people who were born...

This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system. It investigates pronunciation, particularly the intelligibility of Brunei English and the vowels of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710926Author Stuart ShowalterFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Indo-Aryan language family is a branch of the Indo-European phylum, and includes Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Gujarati. First published in 1872, this three-volume comparative grammar of the family was written by the British civil...

The volume deals with the topic of illocutionary shell nouns in English, i.e. nouns that encapsulate a content that is usually expressed in a complement or in a separate sentence or clause, and report or characterize it as a specific speech act. The book...

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that have struck Japan over the course of over the last hundred years. The small number of volumes previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736634066Author Sandra RojasFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint UnilxPublisher UnilxWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 6mm

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...

Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations in communication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction of the surrounding world helps the child to better conceptualise, objectify, and reify abstract notions...

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 an...

The book presents the first comprehensive description of avialinguistics. The author analyses this new interdisciplinary branch of applied linguistics that recognises the role of language for aviation purposes. She provides an integrated approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782875746139Author Zehra GabillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenPublisher Peter Lang AG,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869370228Author Walter the EducatorFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Silent King BooksPublisher Silent King BooksWeight(grams) 64g

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...