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Afghan Proverbs Illustrated (Korean Edition): Afghan Proverbs in Korean and Dari Persian
ISBN: 9780986238635 / Koreański / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By popular demand, Afghan Dari Proverbs from the award-winning book "Afghan Proverbs Illustrated" are now in an exciting new format designed for readers of all ages and translated for the first time into Korean. Includes new vocabulary and full-color illustrations. Proverbs originally collected in Afghanistan and translated into English by Edward Zellem. Translated from English into Korean by Jade Hyun Seung Lee. "Afghan Proverbs Illustrated" also is available in more than a dozen other languages. More information is available at www.afghansayings.com.
By popular demand, Afghan Dari Proverbs from the award-winning book "Afghan Proverbs Illustrated" are now in an exciting new format designed for reade...
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75,42 |
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Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy
ISBN: 9781138142701 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire.
The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe: * language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire * language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire * attitudes and... This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, ...
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756,05 |
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Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9781138869868 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.
This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particula...
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243,84 |
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Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning
ISBN: 9781349698844 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are 'hard-of-listening' and find it difficult to follow the rapid or unclear speech in many films and TV programmes. Vanderplank considers whether watching with captions not only enables learners to understand and enjoy foreign...
This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subt...
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100,60 |
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The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play
ISBN: 9781138144842 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of jokes, quips, riddles and asides. Chiaro explores degrees of conformity to and deviation from established conventions; the tellability' of jokes, and the interpretative role of the listener; the creative use of puns, word play and discourse. The emphasis in her analysis is on sociocultural contexts for the production and reception of jokes, and...
In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptiv...
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756,05 |
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Men's Discourses of Depression
ISBN: 9781349353521 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An original and timely study of men's experiences of depression in which the author tackles the discursively constructed relationship between the self and depression showing its linguistic and social complexity and analyses the relationship between depression and masculinity.
An original and timely study of men's experiences of depression in which the author tackles the discursively constructed relationship between the self...
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402,53 |
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Reading Bridal Magazines from a Critical Discursive Perspective
ISBN: 9781349462278 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a 'princess bride' on her 'big day'. Yet little has been written on how the ever-expanding wedding media and the popular wedding culture constructs gender and affects the ways women live and experience their weddings. Offering a critique of contemporary wedding discourse, this book marries together analyses of media texts and their reception to propose a new approach to media discourse. The analysis richly illustrates how women are invited to embrace not only the stereotypical idea of bridal...
Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a 'princess bride' on her 'big day'. Yet little has be...
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201,24 |
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Discourses of Freedom of Speech: From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918
ISBN: 9781349440511 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.
Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tra...
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201,24 |
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Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad
ISBN: 9781349440153 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identity in Study Abroad brings together three important research areas by exploring the impact of study abroad on second language identities through narrative research. It outlines a new model of second language identity that incorporates a range of language and personal competencies. The three main dimensions of this model are explored in chapters that begin with students' study abroad narratives,...
Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second langu...
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241,50 |
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Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 2: Minority Languages in Eastern Europe Post-1989
ISBN: 9781349425464 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation and restructuring in the various political...
The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts ...
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Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
ISBN: 9781349516308 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed in a series of corpus-based studies in which analysis of collocations provides insight into the cognitive motivation and expressive connotation of metaphor. By unifying traditional and cognitive semantic with pragmatic approaches, the reader becomes aware of the importance of metaphor in persuasive language.
In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they ar...
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402,53 |
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Prison Discourse: Language as a Means of Control and Resistance
ISBN: 9781349431991 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and prisoners involved in a prison based course, the author charts the shifting power relations of control and resistance and situates the findings in a broader sociological analysis of the prison as an institution. The study will interest sociolinguists, discourse analysts, and researchers in communication studies, criminology and counselling.
With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Disc...
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402,53 |
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Researching Cultures of Learning: International Perspectives on Language Learning and Education
ISBN: 9781349340354 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used to explore socio-cultural features of language learning and use contexts in educational institutions, and cultural practices of pedagogic activities and classroom interaction.
This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used ...
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402,53 |
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Language Rights: From Free Speech to Linguistic Governance
ISBN: 9781349520336 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights advocacy supports global governance of language and questions freedoms of speech and expression.
Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics,...
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402,53 |
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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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402,53 |
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Meeting the Language Challenges of NATO Operations: Policy, Practice and Professionalization
ISBN: 9781349457328 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local people was essential to the success of the missions. This book explains how the Alliance responded to this challenge so as to ensure that the missions did not fail through lack of understanding.
After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local p...
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201,24 |
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Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration: Branwen's Starling
ISBN: 9781349348701 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and the Welsh language, the nature of political activism, and the function of incarceration.
Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconic Welsh authors whose political lives and creative wr...
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201,24 |
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Authorial Stance in Research Articles: Examples from Applied Linguistics and Educational Technology
ISBN: 9781349441266 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do I structure a journal article?; "Can I use 'I' in a research article?"; "Should I use an active or passive voice?" - Many such questions will be answered in this book, which documents the linguistic devices that authors use to show how they align or distance themselves from arguments and ideas, while maintaining conventions of objectivity.
How do I structure a journal article?; "Can I use 'I' in a research article?"; "Should I use an active or passive voice?" - Many such questions will b...
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201,24 |
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Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts
ISBN: 9781349285495 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of people. The contributors, experts in language policy, language maintenance and multilingualism offer complementary perspectives from Australia and Europe on the maintenance of linguistic diversity.
Deals with challenges to the maintenance of minority (or community) languages in this era of globalization and increasing transnational movements of p...
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201,24 |
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Europe and the Politics of Language: Citizens, Migrants and Outsiders
ISBN: 9781349514151 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the many questions explored in this new study of official, regional and disputed languages in an ever-changing European context. Broad policy issues and the performance of the range of instruments of policy at local, national and European levels are illustrated with reference to case studies across Europe.
Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acq...
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402,53 |
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