Linguistics & Communication
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Digital L2 Writing Literacies
The ubiquitous internet and proliferating digital tools have redefined views of literacies and are gradually shaping the L2 curriculum. Today, writing is seen not just as a vehicle for language practice, but as a vehicle that shapes L2 multiliterate writers and communicators in the ever-changing...
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Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism
Harmonic serialism is an active research programme in phonology and syntax but has so far not been pursued in morphology. This book delivers a proof of concept: It shows that harmonic serialism can be substantiated as a viable approach to inflectional morphology, covering roughly the same ground...
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Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication
Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication focuses on attitude, the "willingness to explore, learn and participate in online networks, collaborate with others, share ideas, knowledge, media and contribute to the collective construction of knowledge" (Helm & Guth, 2010, p. 81) i...
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Metapragmatics of Attentiveness
This book examines attentiveness, which is briefly defined as a demonstrator's pre-emptive responses to a recipient's verbal or nonverbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering. It elucidates what attentiveness is, and addresses the importa...
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Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar
Lise Fontaine, Guowen Huang, Edward McDonald, Gordon Tucker
This volume brings together contributions to a key area of interest within the framework of systemic functional linguistics: the role of meaning in the lexicogrammar. A key figure in the debate on this role is Robin Fawcett who has long argued for a fully semantic lexicogrammar where the relevant...
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Reflective Practice in ELT
The concept of reflective practice has proliferated over the last few decades in many professions such as medicine, law, business and education. Within the field of education reflective practice has become a very popular concept within teacher education and development programs and perhaps its ma...
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Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics
Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process in the grammaticalization of the medieval Catalan "anar 'go' + infinitive"...
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The 5-Minute Linguist
The 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning students. The book offers brief essays on more than 60 intriguing questions such as "What's the difference between a language and a dialect?" Can animals...
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Uprising in Tahrir Square
Uprising in Tahrir Square is designed as an engaging contemporary resource for advanced Arabic learners. It immerses language students in the monumental events that unfolded in Cairo, Egypt during the mass youth uprisings of January 2011. Before toppling President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule in...
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Engaging Language Learners through CALL
Engaging Language Learners through CALL provides an updated overview of the field of computer-assisted language learning beginning with one chapter on the intersection of second language acquisition (SLA) research and CALL and another on online and hybrid language courses. The next eight chapters...