wyszukanych pozycji: 204
Identities Across Media and Modes: Discursive Perspectives
ISBN: 9783034303866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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617,05 zł |
Business Discourse: Texts and Contexts
ISBN: 9783039106066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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409,84 zł |
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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821,47 zł |
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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351,91 zł |
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. 10-14 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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442,50 zł |
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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395,04 zł |
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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431,53 zł |
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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639,77 zł |
Identities in and Across Cultures
ISBN: 9783034314589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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529,78 zł |
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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249,84 zł |
Researching Discourse in Business Genres: Cases and Corpora
ISBN: 9783034310925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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323,58 zł |
The Directionality of Conversion in English; A Dia-Synchronic Study
ISBN: 9783039112418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book received the Leocadio Martin Mingorance award
This book describes three of the main problems that the word-formation process known as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delimitation, and its directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of the study, which is based on a corpus of over seven hundred lexical units and, more specifically, on 231 actual noun-verb conversion pairs. Considering that directionality is intrinsic to conversion, the main question is whether it is always possible to establish the direction of... This book received the Leocadio Martin Mingorance award
This book describes three of the main problems that the word-formation process know... |
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574,95 zł |
Legilinguistic Translatology: A Parametric Approach to Legal Translation
ISBN: 9783034312875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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517,53 zł |
Lingueística Experimental Y Contraargumentación: Un Estudio Sobre El Conector del Español
ISBN: 9783034337915 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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432,55 zł |
Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics: Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment
ISBN: 9783034315067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with various L1 backgrounds and to subsequently apply the findings to language teaching and assessment. It is made up of 18 chapters selected from papers presented at the international conference -Compiling and Using Learner Corpora-, held in May 2013 at the University of Padua, Italy. The chapters discuss current issues and future developments of the use of learner corpora, present case studies based on teaching and assessment experiences in...
This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with va...
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600,21 zł |
Multiple Perspectives on English Philology and History of Linguistics: A Festschrift for Shoichi Watanabe on His 80 Th Birthday
ISBN: 9783034304801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of articles covers a wide range of topics in English philology and history of linguistics. The volume proceeds from Old English studies offering a unique perspective and approach in literary and linguistic research into Anglo-Saxon England. Two articles deal with English phonology from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and another with a theoretical discussion of etymological inquiry. The last section contains three articles focusing on the history of linguistics or the history of ideas. The wide range of topics addressed in the 12 chapters of this volume reflects...
This collection of articles covers a wide range of topics in English philology and history of linguistics. The volume proceeds from Old English studie...
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639,77 zł |
Approaches to Telephone Interpretation: Research, Innovation, Teaching and Transference
ISBN: 9783034331050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book gives an overview of telephone interpretation from a professional, innovative and pedagogical approach. There are not many studies on telephone interpretation, as this technique was first introduced in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, it is becoming very popular due to its effectiveness: it is an excellent option for situations that cannot be planned in advance (for instance, emergency services), it is provided immediately and it is available 24/7, it relies on readily available everyday technology (mobile telephones) and it decreases the cost of the interpretation services. Due...
The book gives an overview of telephone interpretation from a professional, innovative and pedagogical approach. There are not many studies on telepho...
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395,29 zł |
Investigating Linguistic Knowledge of a Second Language
ISBN: 9783034313308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 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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409,33 zł |
The Dissemination of Contemporary Knowledge in English: Genres, Discourse Strategies and Professional Practices
ISBN: 9783034316798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a series of studies on the nature of the dissemination of specialist knowledge in English, its various principles, conceptualizations, constructs and pragmatic dynamics, over a range of discourse genres: knowledge discourse is addressed to a number of audiences, expert and lay, in a variety of fields, legal, political, economic, institutional, academic, organizational and professional. The authors explore the use of language in the creation and diffusion of knowledge, in its transformation from being a mere repository of information, achieved through complex...
This volume brings together a series of studies on the nature of the dissemination of specialist knowledge in English, its various principles, concept...
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345,79 zł |
Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication
ISBN: 9783034330183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication. This volume explores the complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of social contexts, cultural settings and real-world discourse types: from political speeches to television series through cartoons, novels, oral interviews or official advertisements. Through a selection of empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and contextualized language...
Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related i...
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506,30 zł |