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by Xiaofei Lu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In the past few decades the use of increasingly large text corpora has grown rapidly in language and linguistics research. This was enabled by remarkable strides in natural language processing (NLP) technology, technology that enables computers to automatically and efficiently process, annotate and...
Africa Complete Collection (23 Languages)
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Africa (Including Bambara, Chewa, French, Hassaniya Arabic, Hausa, Jahanka, Jola, Luganda, Malagasy, Mandinka, Moore, Moroccan Arabic, Pulaar, Sepedi, Setsw
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Africa Complete CollectionWelcome to the Africa Complete Collection. This book is one of largest African language collections available and includes 23 languages all with full audio.This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Africa. Learn essential words,...
French Double Pack
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Cameroon and Mali
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
French Double PackWelcome to the French Double Pack. This collection includes 2 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Cameroon and Mali. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is perfect...
Arabic Collection
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Mauritania, Jordan and Morocco (Including Hassaniya Arabic, Jordanian Arabic and Moroccan Arabic)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Arabic CollectionWelcome to the Arabic Language Collection. This collection includes 3 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Mauritania, Jordan and Morocco. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary....
by Olga Trendak
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The monograph is devoted to the notion of strategic intervention and its application in the foreign language classroom, in particular with reference to teaching grammar structures. The first four chapters, which are theoretical in nature, address such concepts as form-focused instruction, language...
The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age
Viral Humour
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the time-space compression brought...
Fixing Babel
An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language,...
Ideology, Agency, and Intercultural Communicative Competence
A Stratified Look into EFL Education in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Associated with an important epistemological shift from language proficiency to language criticality in applied linguistic research, this book provides a sociological perspective on foreign language education in Japan. By employing ethnographic methods to investigate the relationship between three...
by Carolyn Rojas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
There has never been a Scripting languages Guide like this. It contains 209 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing guide...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Focusing on print and electronic sources that are key to business and economics reference, this work is a must-have for every reference desk. Readers will find sources of information on such topics as Business law E-commerce International business Management of information systems Occupations and careers...
by Petra Hendriks
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book asserts that language is a signaling system rather than a code, based in part on such research as the finding that 5-year-old English and Dutch children use pronouns correctly in their own utterances, but often fail to interpret these forms correctly when used by someone else.
Emphasizing...
The Language of Everyday Life
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Popular opinion has long assumed that learning a foreign language requires not only traditional classroom instruction but also immersion among native speakers of the language. This opinion is so strongly held that students who study through immersion are believed to become more proficient than those...