wyszukanych pozycji: 204
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Classroom Talk; Exploring the Sociocultural Structure of Formal ESL Learning
ISBN: 9783039114344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study explores the field of ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom learning within a formal learning institution. Influenced by the sociocultural theory in SLA (Second Language Acquisition), the book sheds light on the question that has been boggling the minds of language practitioners and researchers: Why is ESL classroom talk the way it is? Based on a case study of a school in an ESL community, it argues persuasively that classroom talk may be linked in important ways to an operative sociocultural structure of ESL pedagogy over and above the classroom at the institutional level....
This study explores the field of ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom learning within a formal learning institution. Influenced by the sociocu...
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247,71 |
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Extroversion/Introversion in Foreign Language Learning: Interactions with Learner Strategy Use
ISBN: 9783039115969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores how learners personalities influence foreign language learning in Japan. In particular, this volume investigates three main research questions: What are the learning strategies generally employed by Japanese college students? What are the characteristic learning strategies of extroverts and introverts? Do extroversion and introversion have an impact on English listening proficiency? In the analysis carried out in the volume, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. As regards the former, various types of questionnaires have been employed, measuring...
This book explores how learners personalities influence foreign language learning in Japan. In particular, this volume investigates three main researc...
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348,92 |
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Business Discourse: Texts and Contexts
ISBN: 9783039106066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The contributions to this volume together confirm that though context and culture are complex and difficult notions, they are crucial to understanding the professional genres of modern business communication. In today s globalised business environment, professionals of all backgrounds are under pressure to employ new and different discourse standards to allow for smoother production and reception of business documents and dialogues. In this changing environment, the success of any commercial activity will depend on how competently business professionals respond to the cultural sensitivities...
The contributions to this volume together confirm that though context and culture are complex and difficult notions, they are crucial to understanding...
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403,52 |
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Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca: How Written Communication Is Changing Under the Influence of Electronic Media and New Contexts of U
ISBN: 9783034312769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume investigates the changes undergone by written communication in our globalized world as English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The latter usually functions as a language for communication purposes, but also becomes a language for identification purposes. The study takes into account different web-genres: from the replication of existing genres in other media to cybergenres, whose key evolutionary force is the progressive exploitation of the new functionalities afforded by the new medium. The variety of the contexts of use has made it possible to consider different ELF-using communities...
This volume investigates the changes undergone by written communication in our globalized world as English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The latter usuall...
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331,01 |
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Identities in and Across Cultures
ISBN: 9783034314589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating the ways and means through which culturally-shaped identities are manifested in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of social action. It also looks at possible ways in which understanding and acceptance of diverse cultural identities can be moulded and developed through appropriate education.
Language being one of the most evident and powerful markers of cultural identity, discourse and text are sites where cultures are both constructed and displayed and where identities are negotiated. The... This volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating the ways and means through which culturally-shaped identities are manifested in and thr...
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397,62 |
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Evidence-Based Lsp: Translation, Text and Terminology
ISBN: 9783039111879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book presents a number of different perspectives on the central theme of evidence and its interpretation in the study of specialist languages and their various uses. The principal topics include text corpora, citation patterns, some challenging dichotomies, terminology and knowledge management, and specialist translation. Each topic is presented in one of five parts, each with its own introduction. The volume includes contributions from established and new researchers in the field, as well as well-known scholars from other disciplines who bring a fresh eye to LSP studies. The book...
This book presents a number of different perspectives on the central theme of evidence and its interpretation in the study of specialist languages and...
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814,49 |
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The Language Factor in International Business: New Perspectives on Research, Teaching and Practice
ISBN: 9783034310901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume aims to explore what the field of business communication has accomplished so far and where it is heading. In addition to presenting new research, a number of the contributions included address the question of how business communication scholarship may be relevant to education and practice. While the multidimensional nature of the field does not allow a single answer to that question, the contributors generally agree that the language factor in international business is an intriguing mix of communicative skills that are receiving increased attention across disciplines. The...
This volume aims to explore what the field of business communication has accomplished so far and where it is heading. In addition to presenting new re...
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427,86 |
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Doing Diversity: Teachers' Construction of Their Classroom Reality
ISBN: 9783039116874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live and work in will influence, in many different ways, the interaction within their classrooms. This book describes an indepth research that used ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study three different groups of teachers. The study highlights the teachers perspectives concerning heterogeneity in the classroom, using recordings of discussions concerning cultural and linguistic diversity.
Moreover, this research examines the discourse participants choice in the use... How teachers and students work together through discourse to construct their understanding of the context they live and work in will influence, in man...
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391,68 |
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Eil, Elf, Global English: Teaching and Learning Issues
ISBN: 9783034300100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How can you teach the English language to global English speakers? Can English be taught as an international language? Is it worth teaching? Isn t it more proper and profitable to learn a standard variety of English? How realistic and useful is the identification of an EIL/ELF variety? Can an EIL/ELF standard be identified? These are some of the questions the present volume has addressed with the contribution of some of the most qualified scholars in the field of English linguistics. The book is divided into four sections. The first part deals with the definition of English as an...
How can you teach the English language to global English speakers? Can English be taught as an international language? Is it worth teaching? Isn t it ...
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634,33 |
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Identities Across Media and Modes: Discursive Perspectives
ISBN: 9783034303866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to problematizing the issues associated with its representation in discourse, which has recently been attracting increasing attention in different disciplinary areas. Identity representation is the main focus of this volume, which analyses instances of multimedia and multimodal communication to the public at large for commercial, informative, political or cultural purposes. In particular, it examines the impact of the increasingly sophisticated forms of...
The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to problemat...
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466,03 |
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Researching Discourse in Business Genres: Cases and Corpora
ISBN: 9783034310925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The contributions of this volume approach the genres of employee, CEO and organizational communication from different angles. They analyze how the author s position in the company influences the construction of these genres, what content and linguistic style characterize them, and how the discourse of these genres is related to other resources. They look at linguistic and rhetorical strategies in a range of communicative settings: email correspondence among (male versus female) co-workers, collaborative writing of formats in the workplace, leadership messaging by the CEO, financial...
The contributions of this volume approach the genres of employee, CEO and organizational communication from different angles. They analyze how the aut...
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276,95 |
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The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose
ISBN: 9783039117635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were...
The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflect...
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477,46 |
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Pobreza, Lenguaje y Medios en América Latina; Los Casos de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y México
ISBN: 9783034321426 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 2017 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Lengua Y Derecho: Líneas de Investigación Interdisciplinaria
ISBN: 9783034304634 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2011 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Este volumen recoge algunos estudios presentados en el IV Congreso Internacional del CERLIS (Centro de Investigacion sobre Lenguajes con Fines Especificos), titulado Lengua y Derecho: Perspectivas Interculturales y celebrado en la Universidad de Bergamo (Italia) del 19 al 21 de junio de 2009. Dichas intervenciones, a las que se anaden varios trabajos de expertos del sector, presentan el resultado de recientes investigaciones sobre el vinculo entre lengua y derecho, con especial atencion al analisis de algunos generos acunados por la comunidad de los juristas (recomendacion de la UE,...
Este volumen recoge algunos estudios presentados en el IV Congreso Internacional del CERLIS (Centro de Investigacion sobre Lenguajes con Fines Especif...
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449,12 |
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The Perception of Nature in Travel Promotion Texts: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
ISBN: 9783034315210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Given the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of research the natural environment, tourism and discourse, and how this relationship is affected by and affects society as a whole. In particular, the book highlights the central role of language in constructing eco-friendly tourist sites. Since the images associated to nature are various, this study examines the uses of nature and explores how the terms nature and natural are constructed within the texts. The research identifies how nature is...
Given the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of resea...
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258,25 |
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Modality in Specialized Texts: Selected Papers of the 1 St Cerlis Conference
ISBN: 9783906767109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (5-6 May 2000), which focussed on the semantic and pragmatic values of modality in specialized texts legal, economic, academic and medical. The assembled contributions give an overview of the range of scholarly approaches to modality. They convey the theoretical background and provide in-depth analyses of specialized texts on a synchronic as well as on a diachronic level."
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (5-6 May 2000), which focussed on the semantic and...
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571,58 |
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Systems for the Phonetic Transcription of English: Theory and Texts: In Collaboration with Inmaculada Arboleda
ISBN: 9783034300599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book covers in a systematic way the main systems of phonetic transcription currently used for English. Unlike other texts in the market, which focus on just one type of transcriptional model, the book provides theoretical information and full practice for all systems.
The material is divided into seven sections headed by a lengthy introduction to the history and development of the International Phonetic Alphabet. A set of eighteen samples from real contemporary colloquial English (British English), graded in terms of difficulty, follows. The accent chosen is the one known as RP or... This book covers in a systematic way the main systems of phonetic transcription currently used for English. Unlike other texts in the market, which fo...
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363,34 |
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Language Revitalization: Insights from Thailand
ISBN: 9783034334976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume reports on programs to revitalize and maintain languages of Thailand, with a particular focus on small enclave languages and school-based revitalization programs. Issues of language status, cultural heritage and identity are explored. The approximately 70 languages of Thailand belong to five language families: Tai (24), Austroasiatic (23), Austronesian (3), Sino-Tibetan (18) and Hmong-Mien (2). Currently, fifteen of these languages are classified as seriously endangered. This volume discusses language revitalization efforts involving six Mon-Khmer groups (Maniq, Chong, Nyah Kur,...
This volume reports on programs to revitalize and maintain languages of Thailand, with a particular focus on small enclave languages and school-based ...
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403,52 |
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Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives
ISBN: 9783034320146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect and extend the evaluative paradigms previously observed in the print and broadcast media. In this complex scenario, discourse analysis offers a rich and varied methodology for understanding the different types of evaluation conveyed through media texts and the way these project, reflect and develop their relationships with their audience. The chapters in this volume draw on a variety of analytical tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation theory,... Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect and extend the... |
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364,06 |
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Legilinguistic Translatology: A Parametric Approach to Legal Translation
ISBN: 9783034312875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With the purpose of making the process of legal translation accessible to investigation, the author resorts to the parametrization of translational reality as an inalienable component of her translational theory being proposed here for consideration. The aim is to propose a more precise theory of legilinguistic translation which compels the author to clearly distinguish primitive terms and postulates. These latter specify the image (model) of the reality in question in terms of relevant dimensions used to characterize a set of translational objects and relations. The dimensions secure a...
With the purpose of making the process of legal translation accessible to investigation, the author resorts to the parametrization of translational re...
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306,41 |