Linguistics & Communication
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Recreating the Images of Chan Master Huineng
The book applies systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to the comparison of four English translations of the Platform Sutra (1930, 1977, 1998 and 2011) in the field of translation studies. The Platform Sutra is an ancient Chan Buddhist text that records the public sermons and conversations of the...
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A Short Introduction to the Study of Language
A Short Introduction to the Study of Language provides an accessible and up-to-date invitation to key concepts of modern language study. Readers gain awareness of the scientific approach to language through examination of varied topics of current research interest. The book explores the following...
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Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language Use
This book studies how Hungarian verbs can occur with implicit subject and direct object arguments in a complex approach. On the basis of the critical evaluations of the previous literature on implicit arguments, analyses of a wide spectrum of data from various direct sources, and theoretical expl...
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Analyzing the Media
Hartmut Stockl, Martin Kaltenbacher
Analyzing the Media provides twelve original studies from established scholars in the field of SFL and/or multimodality as well as from young scholars who have already delivered remarkable contributions to the discipline. The volume starts with an introduction to media studies from an SFL perspec...
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Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test
Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test argues that the key to more valid testing of second language listening lies in a better understanding of the nature of the skill and of the signal that listeners have to decode. Using this information as a point of departure, it takes a critical look...
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Assessment Across Online Language Education
With the expansion of online language learning opportunities, language teachers and learners are presented with an increasingly diverse range of tools to facilitate language learning in various contexts. However, CALL researchers and practitioners often have limited knowledge about the effectiven...
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On Verbal Art
Stella Neumann, Anje Oesterle, Rebekah Wegener
Sometimes people motivate you, sometimes they challenge you, sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do all three at once. Ruqaiya Hasan falls into the last category. It is impossible to capture the huge impact that her work has had and will continue to have on a wide range of people and a...
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Comunicacion Mediada por Tecnologias
Marta Gonzalez-Lloret, Margarita Vinagre
This Spanish language volume responds to the needs of Spanish speaking practitioners in the area of Second and Foreign Language Learning who are interested in integrating technologies in the classroom but may not be fluent readers of English. The volume offers a balance between chapters of pedago...
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Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing
Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing brings together insights, theories, and data from a wide range of academic disciplines spanning 150 years into a single volume whose goals are to provide a better understanding of the paragraph and paragraphing and to consider the relevance and possible i...
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Phonology in Protolanguage and Interlanguage
Elena Babatsouli, David Ingram
Phonemic awareness and phonetic skill are the backbones of phonological theory. In phonological acquisition, the presence or lack of the former crucially determines the outcome of the latter. This inescapably becomes a common thread that interweaves developmental phonology in both childhood and adul...