wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Finnische Grammatik
ISBN: 9781409203438 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Die Finnische Grammatik versucht, sprachhistorische Ansatze fur Finnisch-Lernende fruchtbar zu machen und dadurch die komplexe und unregelmassige Formenlehre sowie die zuweilen unlogisch wirkende Satzlehre verstandlicher und leichter erlernbar zu machen."
Die Finnische Grammatik versucht, sprachhistorische Ansatze fur Finnisch-Lernende fruchtbar zu machen und dadurch die komplexe und unregelmassige Form...
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165,70 zł |
Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union: Analysing Metaphor in Communication
ISBN: 9783631782811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on metaphor in communication. Its aim is to shed light on how commenters in online debates discuss EU-related topics via Scenario Negotiation, expressing and negotiating their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios. The study offers a review of current metaphor theory and practical approaches and proposes an Integrated Model of Scenario Negotiation. The results are based on context-sensitive, qualitative analysis of data which stem from a corpus...
For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on me...
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362,16 zł |
Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity: A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study on Oromo-Americans in Minnesota
ISBN: 9783631673126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The author examines the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia. Earlier studies on language and cultural identity have shown that the degree of ethnic orientation of minorities commonly decreases from generation to generation. Yet oppression and a visible minority status were identified as factors delaying the process of de-ethnicization. Given that Oromos fled persecution in Ethiopia and are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status in the U.S., it can be expected that they...
The author examines the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders ...
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414,05 zł |
English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia: An Investigation of Variety Status and Its Implications for English Language Teaching
ISBN: 9783631799604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume contributes to the fields of World Englishes, English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, assessing the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia beyond variety status. Based on questionnaires and corpus analysis, the author analyzes morphosyntactical structures, language use and attitudes towards English(es) in comparison to home languages. She gives new insights into the structure of spoken language and potential varieties of English in particular. Focus is put on a geographical area that only recently attracted increasing attention in the field of World...
This volume contributes to the fields of World Englishes, English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, assessing the English(es) spoken ...
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437,02 zł |
Linguistic Change in Galway City English: A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (Th) and (Dh) in Urban Western Irish English
ISBN: 9783631671788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume...
This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitati...
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537,95 zł |
Discrimination Through Language in Africa?
ISBN: 9783110148176 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences car... |
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700,42 zł |
Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9783110196702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as...
The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a foc...
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919,60 zł |
«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» - A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)
ISBN: 9783631725139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Book presents a study of lexical and phonological features of the language of emotions in Igala, one of Nigeria's over 500 languages. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework is used for the analysis of emotion concepts.
The Book presents a study of lexical and phonological features of the language of emotions in Igala, one of Nigeria's over 500 languages. The Natural ...
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228,45 zł |
Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change
ISBN: 9783631637005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. Based on linguistic features extracted from the Malaysian English Newspaper Corpus, this study demonstrates the diverse ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. The interactions between groups of speakers who are dominant in English and those who are dominant in Malay or Chinese have resulted in wide-ranging changes in Malaysian English. Multilingual individuals who juggle several languages in their daily...
Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. Based on linguistic features extracte...
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370,68 zł |
Theory and Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9783110172218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.
As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ide...
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612,84 zł |
The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse: An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines
ISBN: 9783631779989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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549,05 zł |
Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives
ISBN: 9783631670491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today's 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of...
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. Th...
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481,55 zł |
Cultural Conceptualisations in West African English: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach
ISBN: 9783631572047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book is an application of the cognitive-linguistic framework to the study of the New Englishes, specifically West African English. Its theoretical part provides an outline of the analytical tools, in particular conceptual metaphor/metonymy and cultural-model theory. Using corpus-linguistic methods and incorporating research from neighbouring social sciences, the empirical part explores culture-specific conceptualisations and their linguistic expression in the variety under analysis. The findings attest to the -cultural contextualisation- of the English language in the West African...
This book is an application of the cognitive-linguistic framework to the study of the New Englishes, specifically West African English. Its theoretica...
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487,10 zł |
'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment Through Language
ISBN: 9783110185997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language," was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language... The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landa... |
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569,06 zł |
Categorization and L2 Vocabulary Learning: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
ISBN: 9783631650103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive linguistic perspective. The author hypothesizes that the patterns of one s L1-based concept categorization will be present in his or her L2 vocabulary learning as well. The two characteristics pertaining to concept categorization under investigation are the prototypicality and the basic-level effects. The results show that the psychological salience of the basic-level and the prototypical concepts in one s L1-based conceptual system is related to...
The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive lingu...
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435,47 zł |
Making Progress Simpler?: Applying Cognitive Grammar to Tense-Aspect Teaching
ISBN: 9783631611203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study presents a new approach to tense-aspect teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Its aims are twofold: first, to provide a coherent account of the English tense-aspect system. To this end, a synthesis of Langacker s Cognitive Grammar theory and Fauconnier s Mental Space approach will be put forward. Second, to test the applicability and effectiveness of CL-informed learning materials in the language classroom. For that purpose, an empirical analysis was conducted involving German students of English at an upper-intermediate level. The study therefore addresses...
This study presents a new approach to tense-aspect teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Its aims are twofold: first, to provide a c...
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370,68 zł |
Language Contact and Language Conflict
ISBN: 9789027221421 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation...
The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency Univer...
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607,53 zł |
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of Documentation, Policy, and Language Rights
ISBN: 9789027258342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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573,02 zł |
Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and Typological Perspectives
ISBN: 9789027223982 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese, Bulgarian, Dene, Dutch, Eipo, Frisian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Maori, Russian, Spanish, and Yukatek, among others), they are typologically diverse, and they are contrasted from a variety of perspectives, such as cognitive development, aging, acquisition, grammatical and lexical processing, and...
This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area i...
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552,30 zł |
Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman
ISBN: 9781853599019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume b... |
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496,80 zł |