wyszukanych pozycji: 83
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Achievements and Perspectives in Sla of Speech: New Sounds 2010: Volume I
ISBN: 9783631607220 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznan, Poland. It consists of two volumes, presenting state-of-the-art achievements and perspectives for future research related to the acquisition of second language phonetics and phonology. The key issues include the development of explanatory frameworks of phonological SLA, the expanded scope of domains under investigation, modern methods applied in phonological research, and a new take on the causal variables related to...
This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Soun...
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344,80 |
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Elements of Slavic and Germanic Grammars: A Comparative View: Papers on Topical Issues in Syntax and Morphosyntax
ISBN: 9783631578575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert Fanselow and Caroline Fery discuss lack of Superiority with German movement; Gereon Muller links pro-drop to non-impoverished inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sowka analyses the semantics of German verbs of...
This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Polish...
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406,67 |
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Ironies of Art/Tragedies of Life: Essays on Irish Literature
ISBN: 9783631544181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Plato s Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a blend of tragedy and comedy. The present collection of essays investigates the presence of comic and tragic elements in Irish literature. The works by Irish authors, be they classical or contemporary, capture the struggles of the lives of individuals and communities in Ireland. Irish literature in various ways deals with the tragic and complex past of the country, as well as an equally interesting present. The irony of the art is always...
In Plato s Symposium, Socrates says that the true poet must be tragic and comic at the same time, and the whole of human life must be felt as a...
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354,82 |
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Speaking from the Margin: Global English from a European Perspective
ISBN: 9783631526637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The papers in this volume analyze the language situation under globalization in several European countries. How does the spread of Global English affect the integrity of the local systems? Changes in lexical and discursive repertories are evidenced and discussed. It is shown how new social identities are linguistically constructed and redefined in the social consciousness of the various local communities. The authors see globalization as a major change-in-progress that sets in relief the dual capacity of language: communication and identification. The collection reconciles empirical...
The papers in this volume analyze the language situation under globalization in several European countries. How does the spread of Global English <...
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The Influence of Text Type on Word Order of Old Germanic Languages: A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Old English and Old High German
ISBN: 9783631613153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types: poetry, original prose and translated prose. Thanks to this methodology, it is possible to compare word order patterns in Old English and Old High German, eliminating differences which may be due to stylistic or technical reasons (rhythm, rhyme, Latin influences), as well as to see to what extent text type determines word order and to check whether this phenomenon is universal (triggering similar behaviour in both analysed languages). The book...
The book examines the word order of two Old Germanic languages, Old English and Old High German, using a corpus containing samples of three text types...
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Grammaticalisation Paths of «Have» in English
ISBN: 9783631600276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functions of have is analysed from pragmatic-semantic, morphosyntactic and phonetic angles. Apart from the well-known and formerly studied cases of the rise of perfect and obligative have, the author describes the developments of the had better structure as well as causative have which have not received much scholarly attention thus far. He shows that the first examples of the fully grammaticalised constructions with...
This book explores the diachronic emergence of the verb have in English in its various grammatical uses. The development of grammatical functio...
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440,80 |
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English Contrastive Studies: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9783631620038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Contrastive linguistics has a much longer history than is commonly assumed in the literature on the subject. This monograph is an account of contrastive studies conducted in England and documented in written materials originating between the middle of the fifteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century. These materials show that contrastive studies were conducted systematically, covered a large scope of language data in various languages, and occasioned a number of theoretical and methodological issues, anticipating those that have constituted the mainstream of modern contrastive...
Contrastive linguistics has a much longer history than is commonly assumed in the literature on the subject. This monograph is an account of contrasti...
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335,54 |
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The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language
ISBN: 9783631644508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results...
This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up t...
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349,60 |
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Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech: The Case of Early Modern English Courtroom Discourse
ISBN: 9783631553442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book focuses on historical pragmatics. The author presents the use of reported speech in the Early Modern English records of a state trial of the Elizabethan period. It is worthy of note that the few acquitted defendants were more efficient in the application of manipulative reported speech strategies. The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses confirm that reported speech is a marker of stance.
This book focuses on historical pragmatics. The author presents the use of reported speech in the Early Modern English records of a state trial of the...
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283,80 |
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Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches
ISBN: 9783631520321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual studies including recent developments in the study of text types and genres, as well as the sociohistorical perspective. This large variety of both traditional and new approaches is mirrored in the four main parts of the book, starting with texts and text types, and moving on to vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and finally phonology and orthography. Aspects of language contact as well as corpus linguistic studies are also addressed in a number of...
This volume presents Middle English studies as a modern discipline which unites linguistics, literature, philology, the history of ideas, textual stud...
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400,46 |
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Translating Anthroponyms: Exemplified by Selected Works of English Children's Literature in Their Polish Versions
ISBN: 9783631630983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children s literature of the Victorian and Edwardian period, show that literary names are usually motivated and linked to their bearers, therefore it is necessary to investigate them in terms of their meaning, functions and role as narrative elements. The study focuses on how anthroponyms function in the context of the narrative, situation and culture, and shows similarities and differences between the name systems of the original and the translation. Also, it gives an overview of...
The subject of the present book are literary anthroponyms and their translation. The examples, taken from English children s literature of the Victori...
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290,67 |
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«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group: Parallel Texts with Notes and Wordlists
ISBN: 9783631663059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and linguistic interest. The readings of all the manuscripts are printed in parallel for easy comparison, presenting the various versions of the Wooing Group in a more cohesive form than in existing editions. Paleographical and textual notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists and a selection of notes from...
This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Kathe...
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274,84 |
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Middle English from Tongue to Text: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference on Middle English: Language and Text, Held at Dublin, Irel
ISBN: 9783631387801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The papers in this book cover an impressive range of research into all aspects of the study of Middle English Language and Texts, hence the title From Tongue to Text. The topics dealt with are arranged according to this spectrum of approach, beginning with spelling evidence (which may tell us something about sounds), and moving forward through phonology, sound symbolism, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, and vocabulary, to the study of dialects, Middle English in contact with other languages, and to text explication. The authors come from all parts of Europe, north, south, east...
The papers in this book cover an impressive range of research into all aspects of the study of Middle English Language and Texts, hence the title F...
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398,94 |
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Change in Life, Change in Language: A Semantic Approach to the History of English
ISBN: 9783631634530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship between language and society can be traced best, notes on the socio-historical background of the period have been included. They are followed by the analysis of language change in general in which some of the literature on the topic is reviewed and the author s interpretation of change as being caused by external factors is...
This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle En...
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219,72 |
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Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506-1656)
ISBN: 9783631626245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506-1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion. It focuses on the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers' spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers,...
This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506-1656), a comprehensive compe...
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372,79 |
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The Trojan Mirror: Middle English Narratives of Troy as Books of Princely Advice
ISBN: 9783631605936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narrative traditions as a discourse related to issues of contemporary politics and morality. The medieval stories of the fall of Troy are viewed as educational texts offering advice on moral and political conduct related in their aims to the genre of the medieval speculum. Four major verse narratives of the history of the Trojan War composed in Middle English at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century are discussed: the...
The book examines four Middle English narratives of the Trojan War as examples of the medieval appropriations of classical history and classical narra...
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399,96 |
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Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Functioning of English in Post-1989 Poland
ISBN: 9783631636770 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in post-socialist Poland has been steadily growing in importance. By employing a holistic integrative approach utilizing relevant theoretical, descriptive, and empirical insights, the author builds up a comprehensive picture of the sociolinguistic functioning of English in post-1989 Poland. In order to supplement his integration and analysis of the state-of-the-art knowledge, the author devises an original investigation probing into the perceived...
The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in p...
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304,17 |
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Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications: A Memrise-Based Case Study
ISBN: 9783631730614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language classroom. This book seeks to advance the knowledge about effective learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes supported by mobile environments. The author investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform. In conclusion, she presents core principles of an educational solution that supports the ongoing and situated learning of English for Medical Purposes by designing a... The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language... |
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Time for Words: Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
ISBN: 9783631397992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume contains a selection of papers on different aspects of foreign vocabulary learning and acquisition. It presents various theoretical issues concerning the language learning process itself and describes its nature. The last section of the volume deals with vocabulary learning strategies considered as procedures applied by learners themselves.
This volume contains a selection of papers on different aspects of foreign vocabulary learning and acquisition. It presents various theoretical issues...
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478,58 |
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Non-European Women in Chaucer: A Postcolonial Study
ISBN: 9783631550571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited The Postcolonial Middle Ages in 2000, some scholars have applied postcolonial criticism to the study of the Middle Ages. However, even in postcolonial studies of Chaucer, the role of non-European women in his work has not yet been fully discussed. Using postcolonial theory, the author explores how Chaucer represents non-European women, his Others both in gender and in culture. Her examination of non-European women in his work from a non-Westerner s point of view reveals that his representation is complicated and ambivalent, showing diverse views. The...
Since Jeffrey Jerome Cohen edited The Postcolonial Middle Ages in 2000, some scholars have applied postcolonial criticism to the study of the M...
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371,55 |