This book applies corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches to provide a new perspective on Chinese multiword expressions (MWEs). It reveals the unique characteristics of Chinese MWEs, providing vital information on MWEs to suppo...Loe edasi...
The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous v...Loe edasi...
This handbook offers an authoritative, one-stop reference work for the dynamic and expanding field of language learning motivation. The 32 chapters have been specially commissioned from the field’s most influential researchers and writers. To...Loe edasi...
Based on consumer culture positioning strategies in marketing, three language strategies are presented: foreign language display to express foreignness, English to highlight globalness, and local language to appeal to ethnicity (for instance, S...Loe edasi...
Phonology is a sub-discipline of linguistics that describes the way sounds function within a given language, or across languages. It can be quite a difficult field of study, but this handy book maps out all the key terminology and concepts that...Loe edasi...
Phonology is a sub-discipline of linguistics that describes the way sounds function within a given language, or across languages. It can be quite a difficult field of study, but this handy book maps out all the key terminology and concepts that...Loe edasi...
M. A. K. Halliday is widely regarded as the father of Systemic Functional Linguistics, as well as having contributed important work to fields such as sociolinguistics and language acquisition. This overview will enable readers to understand and...Loe edasi...
M. A. K. Halliday is widely regarded as the father of Systemic Functional Linguistics, as well as having contributed important work to fields such as sociolinguistics and language acquisition. This overview will enable readers to understand and...Loe edasi...
Provides a global overview of management as a discipline and profession in part constructed through management literature. This book is a discourse and corpus-based examination of management bestsellers. The field of popu...Loe edasi...
A historically, spatially and methodologically rich sub-field of sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscapes (LL) is a rapidly evolving area of research and study. With contributions by an international team of experts from the USA, Europe, the UK,...Loe edasi...
The books content progresses from general to specific: from the notions of worldview and translation, through a consideration of how worldviews are shaped in and through language, to a discussion of worldviews in translation, both in macro-sca...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198814771)
This book offers a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. Schmid argues that linguistic structure is not stable, but continually refreshed by usage, conventionalization, and ent...Loe edasi...
Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among...Loe edasi...
Sari: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350007017)
What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeares language in the plays? Shakespeares Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language criticism can illuminate the surprising expre...Loe edasi...
Dispersals and diversification offers a reassessment of some of the pivotal linguistic and archaeological questions concerning the early phases of the disintegration of Proto-Indo-European, including discussions of the methodological approaches...Loe edasi...
This innovative and interdisciplinary work brings together six essays which explore the complex relationship between linguistic translation and spatial translation and argue for an understanding of linguistic translation as an embodied phenomen...Loe edasi...
Sari: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780415891790)
This hands-on introduction to the qualitative research process specifically for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide with practical illustrations. Accessible and engaging, it both infor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691198347)
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an...Loe edasi...
This book addresses one of the most crucial and common questions confronting planners of languages other than English, that is, how the impacts of global languages on local languages should be dealt with: internationalization or local language...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: de Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110426649)
Die These dieser Arbeit ist, dass der Konjunktiv in der indirekten Rede ein logophorischer Modus ist, d.h. ein Verbmodus, der sich auf eine von der Sprecherperspektive verschiedene Perspektive bezieht. Dieser Vorschlag wird formal-semantisch ausgear...Loe edasi...