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  • av Lillian Brise
    500,-

    The Book presents a study of lexical and phonological features of the language of emotions in Igala, one of Nigeria's over 500 languages. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework is used for the analysis of emotion concepts.

  • - Functional and Pragmatic Approaches to Language in Use
     
    726,-

    Provides a detailed overview of functional and pragmatic approaches to the study of language in use. This book is suitable for students at the postgraduate level and also for undergraduate linguistic students who wish to know about approaches to and relevant theoretical frameworks for language in use.

  • - Language Contact and Change
    av Siew Imm Tan
    860,-

    This book is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. It demonstrates the ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. It suggests that those variations and changes are the results of the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.

  • - Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century
    av Carla Figueira
    970,-

    Has postcolonial Africa been the setting for competing external language spread by ex-colonial European countries like France, Portugal and the UK? The case studies presented in this work illustrate the pervasiveness of international European languages in Africa fostered by the history, structure and functioning of the international system.

  • - A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
    av Xiaoyan Xia
    1 006,-

    The author argues that the L1-based prototypicality and basic-level effects will be present in his or her L2 vocabulary learning. The experimental results confirm the hypothesis. The author argues that the two effects are dynamic in L2 contexts, being influenced by factors such as concept familiarity, formal instructions and exposure to L2 culture.

  • - Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence
     
    1 036,-

    The increasing tendency to use English as dominant language of academic instruction and research in Europe is described and discussed. In reports on the situation in various European countries, the development is seen as detrimental to all languages other than English. This concern is also expressed in a resolution offered in 26 European languages.

  • - As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic
    av Ludmila Zemkova
    666,-

    The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.

  • - Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives
     
    1 086,-

    The volume is concerned with sociolinguistic issues of language endangerment and globalization. In the light of increasingly complex and variable multilingual environments the book explores research areas such as language policy, linguistic inequalities and language attitudes. Case studies of endangered minority languages conclude the book.

  • - A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
    av Arne Peters
    846,-

    This volume is a corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives (th) and (dh) and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English.

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    1 010,-

    The book treats different aspects of language norms. One focus is on standardization and language policy. Other contributions investigate the construction of L2 norms by learners and norms in classroom interaction. Discourse norms are theorized and the way language users make them relevant and explicit is examined in various communicative contexts.

  • - Explorations of the Human Mind at the Dawn of History
    av Harald Haarmann
    880,-

  • - A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study on Oromo-Americans in Minnesota
    av Oromiya-Jalata Deffa
    940,-

    The author analyzes the discursive construction of cultural identity by examining the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota. To this end, three linguistic methods were applied: pronoun analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and the tactics of intersubjectivity.

  • - Their Semantic Integration and Contextual Usage
    av Julia Schultz
    1 126,-

    This study sheds light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the recent past. The results are based on a corpus of 1958 borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

  • - Analysing Metaphor in Communication
    av Stefanie Vogelbacher
    796,-

    When language users express and negotiate their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios, they engage in Scenario Negotiation. Based on a corpus of online debates about the European Union, this study focuses on the genre-specific conceptual-communicative functions of Scenario Negotiation in naturally occurring discourse.

  • - An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines
    av Anke Beger
    1 206,-

    This book features comprehensive qualitative metaphor analyses in US-American college lectures. The author shows that deliberate metaphors fulfill important communicative functions. However, the critical discussion of their identification and application demonstrates problems with 'deliberateness'.

  • - Unter Beruecksichtigung des staatlich geforderten Sprachniveaus B1 (GER)- Verbesserungsvorschlaege auf Grundlage der empirischen Untersuchung in Berlin-Moabit
    av Li Liudmila Li
    770,-

  • - Trends, Directions and Implications
     
    840,-

    The book Cultural Linguistics Applied - Trends, Directions and Implications advances the field of cultural linguistics by offering a broad range of empirically based studies from diverse cultural contexts in order to explore the role of cultural conceptualisations/perceptions in intercultural communication, translating and language teaching.

  • - Contributions to the Annual Conference 2013 of EFNIL in Vilnius
     
    700,-

    Europe lives in and by translation and interpretation. EFNIL's 11th conference dealt with the importance of these two communicative techniques for multilingual Europe. Reports on interpretation and translation at EU-institutions and on training and practice of interpreters and translators in various European countries are given and discussed.

  • - Betrachtungen zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den Laendern der Visegrad-Gruppe Mit Beitraegen von Magdalena Bialek, Silke Gester, Julia Haussmann, Erika Kegyes und Iveta Kontrikova
     
    886,-

    Das Buch ist eine aktuelle Studie zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den Landern der Visegrad-Gruppe und widmet sich primar der Stellung von DaF in den einzelnen Bildungsstufen, von der Vorschule bis zur Universitat. Ein Kapitel behandelt Fremdsprachen in der Wirtschaft. Eine Vielzahl von Dokumenten sowie eigene Forschungsergebnisse wurden verwendet.

  • - Beiuntersuchung zum "Variantenwoerterbuch des Deutschen"
    av Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein
    966,-

  • - An Investigation of Variety Status and Its Implications for English Language Teaching
    av Helene Steigertahl
    950,-

    The book tackles the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia beyond variety status. Based on questionnaires and the corpus compiled by herself, the author analyzes morphosyntactical structures, language use and attitudes towards English(es) in comparison to home languages.

  • - Language Policy Interventions and Case Studies
     
    606,-

    This book provides the study of language policy interventions in higher education from several countries and regions. It explores the impact of internationalisation and anglification on language use in universities. It focuses on language strategies implemented to maintain the national or local language or to foster multilingualism.

  • - ICT in the Service of Languages- Contributions to the Annual Conference 2010 of EFNIL in Thessaloniki
     
    730,-

    The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these developments.

  • - Contributions to the Annual Conference 2011 of EFNIL in London
     
    730,-

    The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries.

  • - Linguistic, Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Perspectives
     
    1 130,-

    The studies contained in this volume explore the relations between linguistic (structural), socio-cultural and cognitive aspects involved in language variation. Methodologically, the contributions range from individual case studies to larger-scale corpus analyses and combine both qualitative and quantitative findings.

  • - Contributions to the Annual Conference 2012 of EFNIL in Budapest
     
    730,-

    The tenth EFNIL conference investigated the different ways in which people in Europe access lexical information. In this volume, general reflections by several experts on the history, the present state and new developments of lexicography in Europe are presented, followed by reports on special lexicographic projects in several European countries.

  • av Hector Kamdem
    796,-

    This book is a dictionary of Camfranglais, which presents the lexicon and uses of this sociolect. Lexico-semantic manipulation is presented. Camfranglais is diachronically presented. The major strength of this book is the fact that it does all necessary lexical manipulations before drawing any conclusions.

  • - Theoretical and Applied Models
     
    910,-

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