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Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese
Razaul FaquireCurrent price €53.51Original price €61.50In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. ...
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The Magic Love: Fairy Tales from Twenty-First Century China
Peter Lang Publishing IncCurrent price €73.94Original price €84.99This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first time. Demonstrating the contin...
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Approaches to New Trends in Research on Catalan Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Education and Cultural Studies
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99This volume gathers a superbcollection of articles on current research topicsfocused on the Catalan language andculture of the Catalan-speaking lan...
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Rhetoric at the University of Chicago
James P. BeasleyCurrent price €82.64Original price €94.99From the early 1940s through the 1960s, some of the most important articles in rhetoric and composition were written by University of Chicago facul...
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Jansenisms and Literature in Central Europe / Jansenismen und Literatur in Mitteleuropa / Jansénismes et littérature en Europe centrale
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €69.59Original price €79.99This volume explores how Jansenism was transmitted into Central European literatures and how it shaped the concept of literature in the region. It ...
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Sprachenvielfalt und Sprachenlernen: Neue Wege zur Literalitaet / Language Diversity and Language Learning: New Paths to Literacy: Akten des 42. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Rhodos 2007 / Proceedi...
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €82.64Original price €94.99Dieser Band enthält 73 Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die während des 42. Linguistischen Kolloquiums zum Thema Sprachenvielfalt und ...
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Stories in French for Beginners: Les Voyageurs Du Temps, Aller Au Parc Canin and More
Bev BosonCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99Current price €32.36Original price €38.99Save 17% -
Easy Stories in French for Learners: Une Tarte Aux Pommes, Fin Des Vacances and More
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Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book contains new research essays of linguistic interface studies in or related to East Asian languages. Written by 14 colleagues or former st...
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Making Sense of Bad English: An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies
Elizabeth PetersonCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Why is it that some ways of using English are considered good and others are considered bad? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloq...
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Materialism, Doctrine And The Origin of Language
Varinder KhuranaCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature: Athenian Dialogues III
De GruyterCurrent price €99.17Original price €113.99The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Lati...
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You Talkin'' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English
WhiteCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialec...
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Teaching the History of the English Language
Modern Language Association of AmericaCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99The study of the history of the English language (HEL) encompasses a broad sweep of time and space, reaching back to the fifth century and around t...
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Dictionaries of LSP Collocations: The Process of Compilation Based on Polish, English and Italian Banking Law
Anna ZagórskaCurrent price €51.32Original price €58.99The work is intended as an aid for those who aspire to create multilingual LSP collocational dictionaries. Apart from an extensive theoretical back...
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Inhabiting Language, Constructing Language / Habiter la langue, construire la langue
PIE - Peter LangCurrent price €45.23Original price €51.99Current price €45.23Original price €51.99Save 13% -
Speaking Quotation Marks: Toward a Multimodal Analysis of Quoting Verbatim in English
Martina LampertCurrent price €78.29Original price €89.99This book offers in-depth qualitative case studies of 70 acts of quoting verbatim performed by 16 US speakers across a range of public settings. Wh...
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«The Return of the Repressed»: Uncovering Family Secrets in Zolas Fiction: An Interpretation of Selected Novels
Rita Oghia-CodsiCurrent price €68.72Original price €78.99This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zolas fiction: the question of the authors family sec...
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Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Foreign Language Education
Alberto Fernández-CostalesCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99This book offers an updated and comprehensive view of the possibilities of didactic audiovisual translation (didactic AVT or DAT) in language educa...
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The Application of Peircean Semiotics to the Elder Futhark Tradition: Establishing Parameters of Magical Communication
Scott ShellCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99This work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196)...
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The Academic Enculturation of Chinese Archaeologists: A Study of Disciplinary Texts, Practices and Identities
Meng GeCurrent price €72.20Original price €82.99In the past few decades, sustained and overwhelming research attention has been given to EAL (English as an Additional Language) scholars English w...
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You Can''t Be Serious: An inner-city teacher a-muses about school and life
Larry BerlinerCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Current price €15.76Original price €18.99Save 17% -
Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language
Simon HorobinCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you...
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Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
John AytoCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!...
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It''s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés
Orin HargravesCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...
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Understanding Language: An Introduction to Linguistics
Roger FowlerCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99It is widely recognized that language is humanitys most distinctive and valuable faculty. In this work, originally published in 1974, Roger Fowler ...
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Youre All Talk: why we are what we speak
Rob DrummondCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of Ho...
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Life and Language Beyond Earth
Raymond HickeyCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their langu...
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Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom
Heather RobinsonCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...
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Women''s Language: An Analysis of Style & Expression in Letters Before 1800
Nordic Academic PressCurrent price €36.53Original price €41.99Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an ex...
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Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words
Edward AllhusenCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do...
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Digital Critical Editions
University of Illinois PressCurrent price €109.61Original price €125.99Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with th...
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Oxford Companion to the English Language
Oxford University PressCurrent price €16.52Original price €18.99The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intend...
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The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication
Philip SeargeantCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Where have emoji come from? Why are they so popular? What do they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society? Far from simply be...
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English around the World: An Introduction
Edgar W. SchneiderCurrent price €79.16Original price €90.99The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the...
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English Compounds and their Spelling
Christina Sanchez-StockhammerCurrent price €93.95Original price €107.99Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (fa...
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Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan DollingerCurrent price €85.25Original price €97.99This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...
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The History of Spanish: A Student''s Introduction
Diana L. RansonCurrent price €36.53Original price €41.99This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...
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The History of Spanish: A Student''s Introduction
Diana L. RansonCurrent price €74.81Original price €85.99This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...
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The English Phrasal Verb, 1650Present: History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation
Paula Rodriguez-PuenteCurrent price €88.73Original price €101.99Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...
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Flipping the Bird: Gestures Not to Use in Foreign Countries
Scott HaydenCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education
Ilana S LehmannCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Current price €13.27Original price €15.99Save 17% -
The Twelve by Alexander Blok (Owerset Intae Scots)
Independent Publishing NetworkCurrent price €9.34Original price €10.99Current price €9.34Original price €10.99Save 15%