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This empirical study explores how gender, culture, and context influence the language of native speakers and learners. Arguing these factors must be considered together, it reveals how gender's influence differs across Western Anglo-Saxon and Middle-Eastern Persian cultures.
This empirical study explores how gender, culture, and context influence the language of native speakers and learners. Arguing these factors must be considered together, it reveals how gender’s influence differs across Western Anglo-Saxon and Middle-Eastern Persian cultures.
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Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
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The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
Its Impact on Spanish Language and Society
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
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The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.
The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.
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The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
New Perspectives on Genre Literature
This volume shows that genre literature is not escapist, but a field for ethical reflection. It explores how science fiction and fantasy dramatize encounters with otherness, raising a crucial question: how can human language describe what escapes humanity?
This volume shows that genre literature is not escapist, but a field for ethical reflection. It explores how science fiction and fantasy dramatize encounters with otherness, raising a crucial question: how can human language describe what escapes humanity?
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This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
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This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
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The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)
Masterwork of Late Medieval Didactic Literature
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius's The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
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Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
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As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
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The Friulian Language
Identity, Migration, Culture
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
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The Future of Italian Teaching
Media, New Technologies and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
This volume of essays brings together innovative approaches to teaching Italian language, literature, culture and the arts. Featuring diverse perspectives, it proposes language as a tool for social mobility and incorporates trends like social media and technology.
This volume of essays brings together innovative approaches to teaching Italian language, literature, culture and the arts. Featuring diverse perspectives, it proposes language as a tool for social mobility and incorporates trends like social media and technology.
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The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes
Standards, Provision, and Practices
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
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The Generative and the Structuralist Approach to the Syllable
A comparative analysis of English and Slovak
This book offers analyses of English and Slovak from structuralist and generative viewpoints. Focusing on the syllable, it contrasts phonological theories where syllabification is not always exhaustive with those where it is, bridging the gap between these linguistic traditions.
This book offers analyses of English and Slovak from structuralist and generative viewpoints. Focusing on the syllable, it contrasts phonological theories where syllabification is not always exhaustive with those where it is, bridging the gap between these linguistic traditions.
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The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
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This book describes the morphology and syntax of the verb phrase (VP) in Embosi. It provides a syntagmatic analysis of the Embosi VP in keeping with argument structure, tackling the dichotomy between verb types and examining syntactic processes and thematic roles.
This book describes the morphology and syntax of the verb phrase (VP) in Embosi. It provides a syntagmatic analysis of the Embosi VP in keeping with argument structure, tackling the dichotomy between verb types and examining syntactic processes and thematic roles.
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The Grammar Problem in Higher Education in Cameroon
Assessing Written Standard English among Undergraduates of the Department of English at the University of Yaounde 1
This study explores English grammar challenges among young Cameroonians in higher education. It pinpoints acute problems, analyzes their causes, and offers solutions for L2 learners, teachers, and language policymakers.
This study explores English grammar challenges among young Cameroonians in higher education. It pinpoints acute problems, analyzes their causes, and offers solutions for L2 learners, teachers, and language policymakers.
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The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures
Impoverishment of Grammatical Features in a Non-fluent Aphasic Speaker
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.
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The Grammatical Voice in Japanese
A Typological Perspective
This book's main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.
This book’s main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.
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The Ground from Which We Speak
Joint Speech and the Collective Subject
Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths and hollering at political rallies. Cummins provides a broad framing of how we might study this concept, exploring topics in linguistics, movement science, neuroscience, and beyond.
Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths and hollering at political rallies. Cummins provides a broad framing of how we might study this concept, exploring topics in linguistics, movement science, neuroscience, and beyond.
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