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The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9783631551066 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernaculars massively gained ground in writing throughout Western Europe. They soon underwent regularization and eventually standardization. In England, however, the situation was quite different from that of the continent: well into the 14th century the literate space was filled mainly by Latin and French. For a long time Chaucer has been regarded as having brought about the victory of English. But recent research calls for a broader perspective...
Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernacula...
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283,80 |
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Chinese/English Bilingual Bible-PR-FL/NIV
ISBN: 9781623370770 / Chiński / Miękka / 1872 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Chinese / English Bilingual Bible features the Chinese Contemporary Bible (CCB) in simplified script and the English New International Version (NIV) side by side. This softcover Bible is perfect for outreach, personal use, and translation comparison. Features: - Full text of the Simplified Chinese Script of the Chinese Contemporary Version - Full text of the New International Version (NIV) - 2-column format - 8.5-point Chinese / 9-point English text size - Quality Bible paper in a durable paperback edition - Maps of the Old & New Testaments - Table of weights & measures This Chinese / English Bilingual Bible features the Chinese Contemporary Bible (CCB) in simplified script and the English New International Version... |
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154,10 |
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ELT: Harmony and Diversity
ISBN: 9781443855068 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume is a result of the latest conference in a series of ELT conferences at Purkinye University, Usti nad Labem. It contains submissions by national and international scholars with contributions relevant to applied linguistics and education, ELT methodology, TEFL/TESOL and cultural studies. This volume reflects, on the one hand, the international spectrum of activities, and, on the other, the more locally focused research projects of individuals which are displayed in the various articles in this volume. Further, this volume represents a comprehensive companion piece to the 2011 volume...
The volume is a result of the latest conference in a series of ELT conferences at Purkinye University, Usti nad Labem. It contains submissions by nati...
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231,95 |
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Eil, Elf, Global English: Teaching and Learning Issues
ISBN: 9783034300100 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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635,83 |
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Dialect Emergence in Waumandee English
ISBN: 9783039109111 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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248,29 |
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Text and Argumentation in English for Science and Technology
ISBN: 9783631384473 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, which represents an integrated linguistic-argumentative approach, deals with the linguistic, argumentative and rhetorical analysis of English for Science and Technology (EST). The importance of this field for international communication has meant increased interest in the analysis of EST and above all in the analysis of the structure of EST texts.
The work is divided into three parts. The first part analyses important cognitive and argumentative operations, especially with regard to their function in EST. It looks at the types, objectives, forms and structures of arguments and... This work, which represents an integrated linguistic-argumentative approach, deals with the linguistic, argumentative and rhetorical analysis of Engli...
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364,75 |
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English-German Self-Translation of Academic Texts and its Relevance for Translation Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9783631389461 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed study of the phenomenon of self-translation investigated by comparing self-translations of academic texts by, among others, Hannah Arendt, Rudolf Arnheim, Klaus Mann and Stefan Heym, to student translations of the same texts. The detailed linguistic analysis of the differences between the self-translations and the student translations with regard to macrostructure, syntax and reference draws conclusions as to the specific translation stance taken by the bicultural self-translators. The findings of the corpus analysis are then related to models of the translation...
This book is a detailed study of the phenomenon of self-translation investigated by comparing self-translations of academic texts by, among others, Ha...
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500,39 |
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Slave to the Body: Black Bodies, White No-Bodies and the Regulative Dualism of Body-Politics in the Old South
ISBN: 9783631399125 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slave to the Body is the first comprehensive study of body-politics in the Old South. The book investigates how black and white, male and female bodies were defined and thereby brought into existence as distinct corporealities. The making and unmaking of Southern bodies took place in a variety of fields such as medicine, sexuality, religion, beauty, fashion, or sports and it resulted in a hierarchy of corporeality in which blacks were much more embodied than whites, and in which white men and black women marked the opposite poles of this typology of embodiment. The dualism of black...
Slave to the Body is the first comprehensive study of body-politics in the Old South. The book investigates how black and white, male and femal...
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506,98 |
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Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions of American Culture
ISBN: 9783631506196 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Eating Disorders uses literary texts as a key to open the door of American culture. Novels and poems on disordered eating reveal America s bulimic relationship to food and the tendency to punish individuals particularly women and the poor for not being slender. These texts partake of the confessional ethos in American public culture the need to testify to and hear about intimate physical details. Tracing the history of eating disorders and Western culture s idealization of thinness with reference to canonical literary works such as Christina Rossetti s Goblin Market...
Reading Eating Disorders uses literary texts as a key to open the door of American culture. Novels and poems on disordered eating reveal Americ...
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364,75 |
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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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