This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are considered, as well as their locative and temporal uses. The author observes that in both languages the demonstr...Loe edasi...
The ageing of the worlds populations, particularly in Western developed countries, is a well-documented phenomenon; and despite many positive images of later life, in the media and public discourse later life is frequently depicted as a time o...Loe edasi...
Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows. It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the American television channel Food Network...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse lan...Loe edasi...
This edited volume unpacks the familiar concepts of language, literacy and learning, and promotes dialogue and bridge building within and across these concepts....Loe edasi...
The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers to know. Before L2 writers can begin...Loe edasi...
The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers to know. Before L2 writers can begin...Loe edasi...
This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas. According to the authors view, qiyas represents an innovative and sophisticated form of dia...Loe edasi...
This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches of linguistics which have much in common but are traditionally dealt with separate...Loe edasi...
This book discusses multilingual postcolonial common law, focusing on Malaysia’s efforts to shift the language of law from English to Malay, and weighing the pros and cons of planned language shift as a solution to language-based disadvantage befo...Loe edasi...
A Spanish translation of George Kirazs popular New Syriac Primer. This fruitful integration of scholarly introduction and practical application provides a primer that is more than a simple grammar or syntactic introduction to the language....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Well-Trained Mind Press, ISBN-13: 9781945841422)
A writer, educator and historian helps students understand the trustworthiness of a source and how to cite it without plagiarizing it in this reliable, friendly guide to the process of research, writing and documentation. Original. Illustrations....Loe edasi...
This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). By combining diverse, empirically-proven and innovative ESP practices from all over the world with inspiring th...Loe edasi...
Mano a mano: portugues para falantes de espanhol vem preencher uma importante lacuna no mercado editorial: a carencia de livros didaticos que, considerando as necessidades especificas de falantes de espanhol, favorecam um desenvolvimento mais r...Loe edasi...
Mano a mano: portugues para falantes de espanhol vem preencher uma importante lacuna no mercado editorial: a carencia de livros didaticos que, considerando as necessidades especificas de falantes de espanhol, favorecam um desenvolvimento mais r...Loe edasi...
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...
This book is the first to apply the theory of translanguaging to multilingual classrooms in an Asian context, offering strategies for teaching specific grammatical and comprehension skills to students struggling to read in English. It also enriches t...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...
Reading Explorer, a six-level reading series, prepares learners for academic success with highly visual, motivating National Geographic content that features real people, places, and stories....Loe edasi...