Critical Discourse Analysis : Critical Concepts in Linguistics
ISBN: 9780415189927 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1990s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has taken hold and accrued an exceptional ammount attention in and across a number of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This collection collects: the most influential shorter pieces which adopt a CDA approach; some of the most influential antecedent essays and articles; critiques of CDA which clarify what is central and what is peripheral, what is theoretically well-grounded and what is fragile; and pieces which illustrate applications of the CDA principles and methods. A new index and chronological table of contents...
Since the 1990s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has taken hold and accrued an exceptional ammount attention in and across a number of academic disc...
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Words and Minds : How We Use Language to Think Together
ISBN: 9780415224758 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words and Minds takes a look at the evolution of language and how we use language in joint activities. Examining everyday language and drawing on a range of research, Neil Mercer provides a unified account of the relationship between thought and language. Mercer analyzes real-life examples of language being used effectively or otherwise in many different settings, including workplaces and schools, the home, the Internet, and the courtroom, and offers practical insights into how we might improve our communication skills. The book should appeal to anyone interested in language and how we use...
Words and Minds takes a look at the evolution of language and how we use language in joint activities. Examining everyday language and drawing on a ra...
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698,90 zł |
Analyzing English in a Global Context : A Reader
ISBN: 9780415241168 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, this book is specifically designed for the postgraduate student market, as well as for teachers of English as a second or foreign language throughout the world. It includes specially commissioned pieces as well as classic texts and provides a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and its impact on language teaching contexts.
Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, this book is specifically designed for the postgraduate student...
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227,73 zł |
Introducing Social Semiotics : An Introductory Textbook
ISBN: 9780415249430 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text makes concrete the complexities of meaning-making and is essential reading for anyone interested in how communication works.
This text makes concrete the complexities of meaning-making and is essential reading for anyone interested in how communication works.
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698,90 zł |
African American Literacies
ISBN: 9780415268820 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture. Drawing on personal experience, Elaine Richardson provides an account of the language and literacy practices of African American students. The book analyses the problems encountered by the teachers of AAVE speakers, and offers African American centred theories and pedagogical methods of addressing these problems. Richardson builds on research to argue that teachers need not only to recognise the value and importance...
African American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African American Vernacu...
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698,90 zł |
The Language of Work
ISBN: 9780415307291 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples and a section on entering the world of work.
Examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples an...
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698,90 zł |
The Irish Language in Ireland : From Goidel to Globalisation
ISBN: 9780415320467 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the book also situates the language issue in the context of current debates on the geography, history and politics of the nature of Irish identity. A comprehensive multidisciplinary approach is adopted throughout.
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on c...
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698,90 zł |
Mankind, Nation and Individual
ISBN: 9780415402484 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mankind, Nation and Individual" was first published in 1947.
"Mankind, Nation and Individual" was first published in 1947.
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1113,06 zł |
Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
ISBN: 9780415957205 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator (or a foreign speaker) falls victim to false friends. This theoretical account is successively verified by appealing to texts from the fields of literature, science, philosophy, journalism, and everyday speech. This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive... |
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776,56 zł |
Language, Society and the Elderly : Discourse, Identity and Ageing
ISBN: 9780631182795 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language, Society and the Elderly is the first concerted attempt to give a social account of language and interaction in later life. The book gives a detailed critique of the cognitive bias of existing studies of elderly people's language. In its place, the authors propose a socially-based approach which explains how older people's life circumstances, concerns, goals and beliefs influence their styles of interaction.
Language, Society and the Elderly is the first concerted attempt to give a social account of language and interaction in later life. The book gives a ...
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223,16 zł |
Figurative Language Comprehension : Social and Cultural Influences
ISBN: 9780805845068 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in understanding non-literal language; social factors in the interpretations of verbal irony; and stereotype processing and non-literal language.
This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in u...
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698,90 zł |
Social Semiotics
ISBN: 9780745603735 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Semiotics is a major new textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive and original approach to the study of the ways in which meaning is constituted in social life.
Hodge and Kress begin from the assumption that signs and messages - the subject matter of semiotics - must always be situated within the context of social relations and processes. They then show what is involved in analysing different kinds of messages, from literary texts, TV programmes and billboards to social interactions in the family and the school. While presenting a... Social Semiotics is a major new textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive and original approach to the study of the wa...
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108,94 zł |
Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European Union
ISBN: 9789027228338 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European Union decided to expand the existing legal framework for Irish and for other languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galician, which are official in all or part of the territory of a given member-state. On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU, increasing the number of official EU languages still further. This book addresses the challenge of respecting linguistic diversity within the EU and is intended as an introduction to...
After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the...
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599,45 zł |
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology in Honor of Harold Crane Fleming
ISBN: 9789027232526 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming s major focus on language he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming s extensive...
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense...
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688,00 zł |
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers
ISBN: 9789027254436 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the third one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic Circle, published in the years 1929-39. The tradition of the Circle still attracts attention in broad circles of European and American linguistics.
This volume is the third one of the revived series of "Travaux," which was the well-known international book series of the classical Prague Linguistic...
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Classical Latin : An Introductory Course Workbook
ISBN: 9781603842068 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to reinforce JC McKeown's "Classical Latin: An Introductory Course," this innovative workbook offers a wide range of exercises, accommodating a wide range of learning styles, to help students master Latin morphology and vocabulary. Included are exercises involving parsing, correcting mistakes, completing sentences by providing the correct inflected word ending, distinguishing words within an unbroken series of letters, recognizing word forms, unscrambling anagrams, and more. A superb supplement to a brilliant Introductory Latin textbook.
Designed to reinforce JC McKeown's "Classical Latin: An Introductory Course," this innovative workbook offers a wide range of exercises, accommodat... |
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108,66 zł |
Cognitive English Grammar
ISBN: 9789027219046 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cognitive linguistic theory and shows that Cognitive Grammar helps us to gain a better understanding of the grammar of English. The notions of motivation and meaningfulness are central to the approach adopted in the book. In four major parts comprising 12 chapters, Cognitive English Grammar integrates recent cognitive approaches into one coherent model, allowing the analysis of the most central constructions of English. Part I presents the...
Cognitive English Grammar is designed to be used as a textbook in courses of English and general linguistics. It introduces the reader to cogni...
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190,73 zł |
The Bumper Book of Storytelling into Writing: Key Stage 2
ISBN: 9780955300813 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,01 zł |
Gateway to Arabic: Handwriting book
ISBN: 9780954083359 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students of Arabic often begin by learning the more laborious, printed style of handwriting known as naskh. Part of the "Gateway to Arabic" series, this book teaches the quicker, more fluid ruq'ah style - popular in much of the Middle East - by using clearly numbered and arrowed diagrams, with plenty of opportunity for copying practice.
Students of Arabic often begin by learning the more laborious, printed style of handwriting known as naskh. Part of the "Gateway to Arabic" series, th...
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32,33 zł |
Language Builder An Essay on the Human Signature in Linguistic Morphogenesis
ISBN: 9789027235961 / Angielski / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a wide range of languages, Hagege's work sheds light on the human language building activity. He argues that the conscious and unconscious "signatures" of human nature are written everywhere in language.
Based on a wide range of languages, Hagege's work sheds light on the human language building activity. He argues that the conscious and unconscious "s...
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204,36 zł |