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This book is conceived as a contribution to the general understanding of learner language. It presents an innovative approach to the study of English false friends. False friends are a current issue for those learning and working with languages since these lexical items...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-06
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Arbitration is the most widely used alternative method to resolve commercial disputes between parties. Since arbitration in international contexts is equally applicable to legal traditions across the world, there has been incessant effort on the part of all...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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Nicht jeder, der souverän und erfolreich eine Verhandlung führen kann, fühlt sich auch im Umgang mit englischsprachigen Verhandlungspartnern sicher. Lars M. Blöhdorn und Denise Hodgson-Möckel geben Ihnen die wichtigsten Vokabeln und Redewendungen für Verhandlungen auf...
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Wiley-VCH
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2015-05-05
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Für Dummies
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This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives. Scholars in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, historical linguistics and translation studies share the results of their research. They invite the reader...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-15
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Given the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of research – the natural environment, tourism and discourse –, and how this relationship is affected by and affects society as...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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The book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses in detail the sociolinguistic situation in contemporary Kenya based on Labov’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-23
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This volume assembles a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Pontignano, Siena, (14-16 June 2003). It discusses the concept of evaluation in academic discourse and the methodological tools most apt to investigate it. All contributions...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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This study takes up Thoreau’s work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno’s formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreau’s famous dictum from the early pages...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-28
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This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes have been collected and over 100 verbs were selected for the research. They have been divided into three major semantic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. The aim of this study is to analyse syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 and to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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This book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions – plus the first complete list of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-26
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Lingua francas are languages used for communication between individuals for whom they are not the first language. Based on empirical work throughout, the individual contributions to this volume address lingua franca communication from sociolinguistic as well as from...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-05
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The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change, thus offering a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-22
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This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-14
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This book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies, verbal memory,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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This book addresses the issue of task equivalence, which is of fundamental importance in the areas of language testing and task-based research, where task equivalence is a prerequisite. The main study examines the two ‘seemingly-equivalent’ picture-based spoken...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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As a result of its colonial past, Canadian culture has been shaped by French, British and other European influences; since the second half of the twentieth century, however, large-scale immigration from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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