wyszukanych pozycji: 205
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Doing Diversity: Teachers' Construction of Their Classroom Reality
ISBN: 9783039116874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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393,52 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Business Discourse: Texts and Contexts
ISBN: 9783039106066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Researching Discourse in Business Genres: Cases and Corpora
ISBN: 9783034310925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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248,87 |
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Identities in and Across Cultures
ISBN: 9783034314589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Eil, Elf, Global English: Teaching and Learning Issues
ISBN: 9783034300100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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La Primavera del Árabe Marroquí
ISBN: 9783034331043 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 2017 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Discourse and Identity in the Professions: Legal, Corporate and Institutional Citizenship
ISBN: 9783034310796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Professional identities are not only constructed through discourse, but can also be studied and analysed through discourse and communication behaviour, which is probably the most powerful resource available for the understanding of their nature and function. The present volume investigates the ways in which the discourses produced in a variety of professional contexts, especially in business, legal and institutional spheres of action, shape and manifest professional identities.
The focus of the studies in this collection is on whether, and to what extent, the in-group identity of a given... Professional identities are not only constructed through discourse, but can also be studied and analysed through discourse and communication behaviour...
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Fusion Symétrique Et Alternances Ditransitives
ISBN: 9783039116096 / Francuski / Miękka / 2008 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Cet ouvrage propose une analyse unifiee de differentes proprietes structurales opposant les constructions ditransitives comme He offered a woman the flowers et He offered the flowers to a woman (alternance dative) ou He loaded a truck with the wood et He loaded the wood onto a truck (alternance locative). En mettant en parallele l anglais et le russe a l egard de la portee relative des quantificateurs et de la modification depictive, l etude s etend a trois autres oppositions observees dans le cas de l alternance locative en russe par rapport a la prefixation...
Cet ouvrage propose une analyse unifiee de differentes proprietes structurales opposant les constructions ditransitives comme He offered a woman th...
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316,39 |
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Investigating Linguistic Knowledge of a Second Language
ISBN: 9783034313308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book investigates several important issues revolving around the psycholinguistic modelling of language proficiency in terms of L2 linguistic knowledge, which is a topic of considerable interest and importance in SLA theories and language testing practice. Four tests including the Elicited Imitation Test, Timed Grammaticality Judgment Test, Untimed Grammaticality Judgment Test and Metalinguistic Knowledge Test are employed to examine the extent to which they provide separate measures of Chinese third-year university students L2 lingusitic knowledge. The role of four psychological factors...
This book investigates several important issues revolving around the psycholinguistic modelling of language proficiency in terms of L2 linguistic know...
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Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary Corpus-Based Study
ISBN: 9783034300582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 611 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The history of regional Englishes in the Early Modern period still presents numerous lacunae that need to be filled, in order to provide a complete insight into the English linguistic setting at this time. This book aims to remedy these deficiencies in some measure. In particular, this monograph seeks to shed light upon the history of Early Modern Northern English vocabulary by means of the first corpus of Early Modern texts where Northern linguistic traits are used for literary purposes. It provides a linguistically documented description of Northern words from a synchronic...
The history of regional Englishes in the Early Modern period still presents numerous lacunae that need to be filled, in order to provide a comp...
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780,95 |
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Corpus-Based Studies of Diachronic English
ISBN: 9783039108510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Corpus-based studies of diachronic English have been thriving over the last three decades to such an extent that the validity of corpora in the enrichment of historical linguistic research is now undeniable. The present book is a collection of papers illustrating the state of the art in corpus-based research on diachronic English, by means of case-study expositions, software presentations, and theoretical discussions on the topic. The majority of these papers were delivered at the 25th Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), held at the...
Corpus-based studies of diachronic English have been thriving over the last three decades to such an extent that the validity of corpora in the enrich...
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457,33 |
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Language Revitalization: Insights from Thailand
ISBN: 9783034334976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Evaluation in Media Discourse: European Perspectives
ISBN: 9783034320146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Frontiers in Comparative Prosody: In Memoriam: Mikhail Gasparov
ISBN: 9783034303736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume incorporates some of the most important trends in linguistically-oriented theory of verse. It includes papers from renowned scholars, such as Paul Kiparsky, Reuven Tsur, Gregory Nagy, Seiichi Suzuki, David Chisholm, Geoffrey Russom, Marina Tarlinskaja, and others. Different aspects of comparative prosody are treated, drawing from contemporary approaches such as cognitive metrics, generative modelling, experimental phonetics, etc. Special emphasis is placed on the linguistic typology of verse forms as well as on their origin and historical evolution. The analysis encompasses...
This volume incorporates some of the most important trends in linguistically-oriented theory of verse. It includes papers from renowned scholars, such...
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344,53 |