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Speech Presentation in the British and German Press
ISBN: 9783631549483 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comparative linguistic study analysing the phenomenon of speech presentation or Redewiedergabe in a corpus of British and German newspaper articles. By applying a modified speech presentation model to a corpus of 143 articles originally, the prototype had been designed for the analysis of English literary texts the author shows that it is possible to examine journalistic texts stylistically and to compare texts written in different languages. The analysis, divided into a qualitative and a quantitative part, reveals that the genre of a text or paper influences the use of...
This book is a comparative linguistic study analysing the phenomenon of speech presentation or Redewiedergabe in a corpus of British and German...
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435,72 |
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Information Distribution in English Grammar and Discourse and Other Topics in Linguistics: Festschrift for Peter Erdmann on the Occasion of His 65 Th
ISBN: 9783631551301 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a Festschrift for Peter Erdmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday. It contains contributions by former students, as well as by close colleagues from various phases of his academic life. The broad range of topics addressed is a reflection of Peter Erdmann's wide ranging interests in both synchronic and historical linguistics, extending mainly to English and German, but including numerous other languages as well.
This book is a Festschrift for Peter Erdmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday. It contains contributions by former students, as well as by close c...
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354,82 |
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Robertson Davies and the Quest for a Canadian National Identity
ISBN: 9783631552124 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book wants to make a contribution to the current discussion on Canadian identity. The author outlines the connection between the development of the Canadian national identity and Robertson Davies, an important author of the 20th century. Looking at his essays, plays and novels, Sabine Jackson tries to demonstrate Canada s development from a colony to an autonomous country and its effects on the Canadian consciousness."
This book wants to make a contribution to the current discussion on Canadian identity. The author outlines the connection between the development of t...
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299,02 |
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Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States
ISBN: 9783631560365 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketing of ethnicity. Tracing Dutch-American literary images through four centuries of writing in America, the study emphasizes the continuity of Dutch-American history. The assessment of images in their socio-cultural context reveals the disparity between literary and socio-cultural perception, the latter of which often evokes Dutch ethnicity in the United States as a mere means to an end. While the study ascertains which images of Dutch Americans...
The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketi...
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500,39 |
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«The Thinking Indian»: Native American Writers, 1850s-1920s
ISBN: 9783631560471 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives an in-depth literary history focusing on the lives and works of five major Native American authors: John Rollin Ridge, Sarah Winnemucca, Simon Pokagon, Alexander Lawrence Posey, and Charles Alexander Eastman. Their writings, produced in an era characterized by severe cultural oppression, are not only milestones in the evolution of early Native American literature but also comprise a significant contribution to American letters. The literary bequest of the authors covered in this book openly contests the perennial stereotype of the -Vanishing Indian.-"
This book gives an in-depth literary history focusing on the lives and works of five major Native American authors: John Rollin Ridge, Sarah Winnemucc...
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483,64 |
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Perspectives on Metonymy: Proceedings of the International Conference 'Perspectives on Metonymy', Held in Lódź, Poland, May 6-7, 2005
ISBN: 9783631562116 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book contains discussions of a broad range of theoretical issues of metonymy, such as cognitive models, semantic representations, and the links with conceptual metaphors. It provides recent analyses of the phenomenon in such fields as grammar, lexical semantics, pragmatics, semiotics, as well as literature. The individual papers concentrate on the operation of single and multiple metonymies in modality, conditionals, compounding, and concept formation - both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Aphasia, Creole languages, novels by Terry Pratchett and creole Laurence Sterne are...
The book contains discussions of a broad range of theoretical issues of metonymy, such as cognitive models, semantic representations, and the links wi...
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528,54 |
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Vague Language in Educational Settings: Quantifiers and Approximators in British and American English
ISBN: 9783631562321 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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435,72 |
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The Media and International Communication
ISBN: 9783631567074 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twenty-first century is witness to complex social, political, and cultural phenomena transforming the world in which we live. There are numerous aspects to this global process; most of them, however, are related one way or another to the media of communication which foster and accelerate it. The chapters in this book approach media and international/intercultural communication from various global perspectives. The authors provide insight into the impact of media on different contexts, cultures and nations. One theme that weaves its way throughout this collection of essays is an...
The twenty-first century is witness to complex social, political, and cultural phenomena transforming the world in which we live. There are numerous a...
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600,32 |
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Cultural Conceptualisations in West African English: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach
ISBN: 9783631572047 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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457,55 |
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Systems for the Phonetic Transcription of English: Theory and Texts: In Collaboration with Inmaculada Arboleda
ISBN: 9783034300599 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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364,19 |
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Terminology in English Language Teaching: Nature and Use
ISBN: 9783034300131 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on original research and novel concepts, this book investigates the nature and use of terminology from linguistic and applied viewpoints. Throughout, problems with terminology, such as overuse by teachers and cases of synonymy and polysemy, are considered and solutions are offered.
Part One looks firstly at some basic concepts, then draws important distinctions between pedagogic and scientific terminology, and between transparent, opaque and iconic terms, before examining the historical, lexical and grammatical nature of terms. Part Two attempts to estimate the value and... Based on original research and novel concepts, this book investigates the nature and use of terminology from linguistic and applied viewpoints. Throug...
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373,00 |
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Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian: Jonathan Swift - John Fowles - Margaret Laurence - Margaret Atwood - Di Brandt & Dennis
ISBN: 9783631351802 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift s Gulliver s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the myth of utopia (N. Frye) and the ramifications it displays in contemporary exemplars of utopian/dystopian fiction The Handmaid s Tale, Canadian author Margaret Atwood s world success, being a most significant case in point. John Fowles, within an overview of his works, is dealt with to point out the quest-/quester-motif as an informing element, which itself forms part of the myth of the picaresque as the...
This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift s Gulliver s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it ...
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328,69 |
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Pro-active Language Teacher Education in a Multicultural Society
ISBN: 9783631372692 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores some issues relating to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa, attending especially to language variety and language attitudes. The focus is on the teaching of language, specifically English, and on the relevant education of language teachers in a multicultural country such as South Africa. In school systems such as the South African education system, which has for many years provided real access to education and power for a limited group of students only, the demands of modern society for greater language and cultural knowledge imply radical adjustments to literacy...
This book explores some issues relating to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa, attending especially to language variety and language attitu...
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405,54 |
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Margaret Oliphant's Carlingford Series: An Original Contribution to the Debate on Religion, Class and Gender in the 1860s and '70s
ISBN: 9783631375587 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nineteenth-century observers of social and religious life in England felt that religion, class and gender were frameworks that previous generations had taken for granted but that were becoming more and more problematic as the century progressed. An analysis of Margaret Oliphant s Chronicles of Carlingford in the context of contemporary fiction and nonfiction demonstrates the extent to which these novels contributed to the contemporary debate.
Oliphant offers a comprehensive and uncommonly balanced picture of the most visible parties in English religious life in the 1860s and 70s and draws... Nineteenth-century observers of social and religious life in England felt that religion, class and gender were frameworks that previous generations ha...
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405,54 |
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Existential Sentences in English and Lithuanian: A Contrastive Study
ISBN: 9783631394540 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Existential sentences in the world s languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the...
Existential sentences in the world s languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a co...
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392,61 |
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Studies in African Varieties of English
ISBN: 9783631394892 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of articles dealing with African, in particular West African, varieties of English, including English-based Pidgins and Creole languages, some of which have received only scant attention so far. A wide range of different aspects are highlighted: the role of the varieties discussed in their respective linguistic situations, evidence of the acculturation of English in an African context, lexical and grammatical characteristics, questions of language and education policy, and for the first time a lexical comparison of two developing national varieties."
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with African, in particular West African, varieties of English, including English-based Pidgins and Cr...
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283,55 |
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«Textuality as Striptease» the Discourses of Intimacy in David Lodge's «Changing Places»and «Small World»
ISBN: 9783631395639 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book analyses how David Lodge s Changing Places and Small World relate to the sphere of the intimate in the decades in which they were written, published and read. The analysis of the novels is preceded by an approach to Lodge s work and a theoretical section which looks at the concept of intimacy, the evolution of intimate practices in the sixties, seventies and eighties and the connections between intimacy and literary genre. This leads on to a study of Changing Places and Small World in their intimate contexts and an exploration of their links with the...
The book analyses how David Lodge s Changing Places and Small World relate to the sphere of the intimate in the decades in which they we...
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304,17 |
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Language Function, Structure, and Change: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Tomasz P. Krzeszowski
ISBN: 9783631395875 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language Function, Structure, and Change brings together sixteen contributions by leading Polish linguists on cognitive and contrastive linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, and language teaching and translation studies. The papers contained in this volume bear witness to the continued development and theoretical diversification of the field of English language study and general linguistics in Poland. The volume is dedicated to Tomasz P. Krzeszowski, professor of linguistics at Warsaw University, an outstanding Polish linguist whose contribution to the theory of...
Language Function, Structure, and Change brings together sixteen contributions by leading Polish linguists on cognitive and contrastive linguistics, s...
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328,69 |
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Time for Words: Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
ISBN: 9783631397992 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood's Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism
ISBN: 9783631507575 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The controversy about Wood s Halfpence between 1722 and 1725 was an exceptional instance of Irish defiance of England s imperial authority. In a heated public dispute, more than 100 pamphlets and broadsides in prose and verse protested against the English Government s granting a patent for coining copper money for Ireland to an English manufacturer. Castigating the project in economic and constitutional terms, they revealed an indebtedness to traditional arguments for Ireland s status as a free kingdom, whose people enjoyed the same liberties as the people of England. The pamphlets thus...
The controversy about Wood s Halfpence between 1722 and 1725 was an exceptional instance of Irish defiance of England s imperial authority. In a heate...
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528,54 |
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