Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language, Paperback - Yuliya Komska

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This text offers an engaging introduction to the study of linguistics, focusing on the foundational areas (sound, structure, and meaning). Aimed at...

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This book offers a programmatic and Neo-Firthian informed typological investigation that points to potential mutual enrichments of linguistic typol...

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A comprehensive overview of third language acquisition, revealing unique links between language and mind, brain, and cognition, which are otherwise...

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This volume explores the role of linguistic ecology in the study of language contact. Bringing together an international team of experts, it offers...

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Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

An up-to-date introduction to language acquisition for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of English as an international language, and sets out to analyse how and why the language has become...

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Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 380Collection: Digital SocietyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 32Cover type: Paperback / ...

This volume examines the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. It uses e...

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With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced lear...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Judith (Western Washington University) PinePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 216 x 274 x 18Cover type: P...

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The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around ...

DescriptionEven though many pre-service and in-service teacher programs now address information and computer technology, computer- assisted languag...

From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. D...

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From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversit...

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Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble tha...

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Three stories guide young readers how to make better decisions. The diverse MVP Kids learn to follow directions in this helpful character education...

Informed by the latest research in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics, El espa ol y la ling stica aplicada responds ...

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Our present-day language cannot easily convey spiritual concepts. Rudolf Steiner's search for the words and style to bring to expression a contempo...

Combining empirical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines, Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States examines current issues s...

Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. Written with humour, heart, and a...

This introduction to Spanish linguistics covers every basic concept required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language, as well as th...

In the context of increasingly multilingual global educational settings, this book provides a timely exploration of the phenomenon of cross-linguis...

An innovative study of grammar that explains how speakers' knowledge of grammar is emergent from domain-general processes of communication and cogn...

Melissa Brough explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellin, Colombia, create networks of change that have the po...

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