ilość książek w kategorii: 1236
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Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds: Reimagining Social Change
ISBN: 9781137598424 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place - that is, in the data generated from empirical research.
This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place - that is...
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202,19 |
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Language Use: A Philosophical Investigation Into the Basic Notions of Pragmatics
ISBN: 9780333646113 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed descriptions of our everyday practices of language use. While the results should be highly relevant to pragmatics, the investigation is not a contribution to pragmatic theory. Drawing on Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, Language Use brings out the relevance of Wittgenstein's methods to fundamental problems in central pragmatic fields of research such as deixis, implicatures, speech acts and presuppositions.
Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed desc...
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404,42 |
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The Language of Museum Communication: A Diachronic Perspective
ISBN: 9781137571489 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After identifying the typical features of the museum press release, new media more recently adopted by museums, such as web presentations, blogs, e-news, and social media, are taken into consideration, exploring questions such as how has the language of museum communication changed in order to face the challenge posed by new technologies?
After identifying the typical features of the museum press release, new media more recently adopted by museums, such as web presentations, blogs, e-ne...
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202,19 |
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Demanding Justice in the Global South: Claiming Rights
ISBN: 9783319388205 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. In so doing, the book bridges the literature on contentious politics, the politics of claiming social justice, and everyday politics of resistance.
The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. In so doing,...
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566,20 |
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Communicating in Digital Age Corporations
ISBN: 9781137558121 / Angielski / Twarda / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world. It offers a first-hand insight into primary business discourse with a deeper understanding and analysis of business processes and mechanisms underlying and reflected in enterprise software-mediated communication. It answers the question what 'doing business' in the digital age is about and illustrates 'business discourse' from practitioners' point of...
The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, s...
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202,19 |
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Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies: Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
ISBN: 9781137569776 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals' access to the dominant literacies of migration are contrasted with the vernacular practices which migrants take up at home as part of their digital literacies. The study explores the blurring of boundaries between home and school as well as the blurring of boundaries between language varieties....
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such...
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363,97 |
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Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
ISBN: 9781403901293 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm.
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics....
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202,19 |
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Examining Text and Authorship in Translation: What Remains of Christa Wolf?
ISBN: 9783319401829 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is 'translated' in the literary text. In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers and reviewers reframes the writer's identity for a new reading public. This detailed study of Wolf, an author with a complex and contested public profile, intervenes in wide-ranging contemporary debates on globalised literary culture by examining how the fragmented identity of the 'international'...
This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is 'translated' in the literary text. In a detailed ...
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485,31 |
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The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing: Discourses, Communities and Practices
ISBN: 9781349468706 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses.
With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issu...
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404,42 |
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Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach
ISBN: 9781349423064 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.
This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body...
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404,42 |
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Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings
ISBN: 9781349541331 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countering popular myths of women's deficiencies in communicating in traditionally male professions, the author uses women's talk to illustrate the interactional skills required to contribute effectively to workplace meetings, and presents new insights on the organization of talk in meetings while celebrating women's clear competence.
Countering popular myths of women's deficiencies in communicating in traditionally male professions, the author uses women's talk to illustrate the in...
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202,19 |
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Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace
ISBN: 9781349540655 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a persistent barrier to their career progression. Using a range of interactional sociolinguistic data this publication investigates the crucial role that gendered discourses play in perpetuating workplace gender inequalities.
Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a persistent barrier to their career progression. Using a range of int...
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233,36 |
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Dangerous Multilingualism: Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality
ISBN: 9781349340392 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.
Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity o...
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404,42 |
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The Language of Interstate Relations: In Search of Personification
ISBN: 9781349461844 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. Opposed to mainstream cognitive assumptions, it provides detailed data-driven research and one realistic solution to many of the dilemmas.
In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and t...
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202,19 |
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The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education
ISBN: 9781349339426 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on approaches from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, this study proposes an analytical model focusing on the linguistic and discursive means narrators use to construct a variety of identities in everyday stories. This model is further exploited in language teaching to cultivate students' cultural sensitivity and critical literacy.
Based on approaches from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, this study proposes an analytical model focusing on the linguistic and discursive me...
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202,19 |
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Sprache und Beziehung
ISBN: 9783110495829 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen formen unsere Sprache und unseren Sprachgebrauch, und diese wiederum gestalten unsere Beziehungen. Obwohl diese Wechselwirkung ebenso grundlegend wie vielfaltig ist, hat sich um sie bis jetzt kein linguistisches Forschungsfeld ausgebildet, das ahnlich systematisch bearbeitet worden ist wie dasjenige um Sprache und Geschlecht, Sprache und Alter oder Sprache und soziale Gruppen. Der Band versammelt 15 Beitrage, die das Forschungsfeld Sprache und Beziehung exemplarisch besetzen. Sie beziehen sich raumzeitlich auf den deutschen Sprachraum vom... Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen formen unsere Sprache und unseren Sprachgebrauch, und diese wiederum gestalten unsere Beziehungen. Obwohl diese Wec... |
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661,53 |
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Industrial Change in Africa: Zimbabwean Firms Under Strucural Adjustment
ISBN: 9781349665198 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses a unique and extensive data survey of manufacturing firms in Zimbabwe to analyse firm-level responses to economic liberalization.
This book uses a unique and extensive data survey of manufacturing firms in Zimbabwe to analyse firm-level responses to economic liberalization.
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466,78 |
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The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics
ISBN: 9781138241329 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions. Under the Dynamic Syntax approach, which takes the incremental left-to-right processing of linguistic forms to be a fundamental part of characterizing the relation between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation, a straightforward explanation is provided. The study features detailed analysis of a range... The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a n... |
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960,90 |
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Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
ISBN: 9781349507641 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics....
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cena:
202,19 |
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Research in Clinical Pragmatics
ISBN: 9783319474878 / Angielski / Twarda / 649 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults. In chapters that are accessible to students and researchers as well as clinicians, this volume introduces the reader to the different types of pragmatic disorders found in clinical populations as diverse as autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury and right hemisphere language disorder. The volume also moves beyond these well-established populations to include conditions such as congenital visual impairment and non-Alzheimer dementias,... This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.... |
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687,54 |