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This collection includes a rich variety of approaches to Southerners' complex understandings of change and developments reflected in the literature, history, and culture of this distinctive region. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic address introspective journeys of literary pilgrimage, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyse transactions from literature to film, trace religious...
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A menudo escuchamos, por boca de escritores, gramáticos y cargos públicos, entusiastas loas a la lengua española: su grandeza, su hermosura, su elegancia. Ante estos calificativos cabe preguntarse: ¿Atienden a motivos meramente lingüísticos o más bien laten en ellos implicaciones étnicas, culturales y políticas?
Autorretrato de un idioma presenta una serie de textos fundamentales en los que distintos estamentos han abordado algunas cuestiones...
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The publication of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore's book Bilingualism: Basic Principles by Multilingual Matters in 1982 coincided with an unprecedented upsurge of interest in bilingualism. A major reason for this was the acknowledgement that bilingualism is far more common than was previously thought, and perhaps even the norm. The number of bilinguals at the turn of the third millennium is probably greater than ever before and will continue to grow as a...
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Esta colección incluye una rica variedad de enfoques a los complejos entendimientos de los sureños con el cambio y los avances reflejados en la literatura, la historia y la cultura de esta región tan característica. Los colaboradores de ambas partes del Atlántico abordan viajes introspectivos de peregrinación literaria, arrojan nueva luz sobre la historia del movimiento de los derechos civiles, así como su reflejo en la literatura, analizan...
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Este manual de lingüística pretende salir al paso de las exigencias que plantean las titulaciones universitarias en el marco de la integración europea. Las nuevas directrices sobre planes de estudios aconsejan la elaboración de textos que faciliten el trabajo autónomo del estudiante, y que sean capaces de ofrecer simultáneamente enfoques teóricos y aplicados de las disciplinas científicas. En este libro los autores aúnan los contenidos tradicionales...
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In this volume, authors from four disciplines join forces to develop an analysis of political discourse on a comparative and multidisciplinary basis. Language policy is often based on the political use of history, where the remembrance of past experiences by communities, individuals and historical bodies play a fundamental role. These authors see politics and policies as multi-sited by nature, taking place, being constructed, contested and reproduced...
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How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi-and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? The first aim of this volume is to offer up-to-date answers to these questions. Its second aim is to provide readers with detailed step-by-step introductions to a variety of methodological approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon, from traditional neurocognitive and psycholinguistic approaches...
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This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different...
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Introducción a la lingüística clínica es un texto de consulta dirigido a lingüistas, maestros, psicólogos, fonoaudiólogos, especialistas en audición, lenguaje, habla y aprendizaje, así como a todo profesional interesado en los trastornos de la comunicación como una manifestación más del lenguaje.
Este libro, editado por John Castro Torres, condensa una serie de conocimientos teóricos y prácticos cuyo objetivo es la explicación de cómo...
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Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number...
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This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors, both veteran researchers and relative newcomers to the field, situate their research in current debates in terms of theory and data analysis and they present it in an accessible way. The chapters investigate how and when native and non-native language knowledge is used in language production. They focus on lexis, syntax, tense-aspect,...
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Grounded in linguistic research and argumentation, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: FROM SOUND TO SE01 General/tradeE offers readers who have little or no analytic understanding of English a thorough treatment of the various components of the language. Its goal is to help readers become independent language analysts capable of critically evaluating claims about the language and the people who use it.
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Biliteracy-the use of two or more languages in and around writing-is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policymakers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual...
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This volume, as a sequel to Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition by Han (2004), brings together a collection of most recent theoretical and empirical studies on fossilization, a classic problem of second language acquisition. It covers a wide range of perspectives and issues. The analyses discussed herein address key concerns of many second language researchers and teachers with regard to just how far anyone can go in learning a new...
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In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other major intellectual fields have a canon of works which practitioners can learn from and add to, but Teaching does not. The Connecting-the-Dots in World History:...
16) Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Mill
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Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. For example, the Greek word for a long shirt,...
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España es un estado plurilingüe integrado por diversas lenguas autóctonas, además del español, que poseen una cultura distintiva y una rica tradición literaria: el asturiano, el catalán, el euskera o el gallego. Una parte de los habitantes de la península y sus islas, pues, son bilingües, y cuando se expresan literariamente presentan perfiles distintos: hablantes bilingües que escriben en una sola de las lenguas que conocen, que escriben...
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This volume contains a selection of papers analyzing language transfer, a phenomenon which results from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts. The main focus of the volume is on the lexical aspects of language transfer.
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This book provides an overview of current research on the age factor in foreign language learning, addressing issues, which are critical for language planning. It presents new research on foreign language learning within bilingual communities in formal instruction settings focussing on syntax, phonology, writing, oral skills and learning strategies.
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This book looks at changes in the first language of people who know a second language, thus seeing L2 users as people in their own right differing from the monolingual in both first and second languages. It presents theories and research that investigate the first language of second language users from a variety of perspectives including vocabulary, pragmatics, cognition, and syntax and using a variety of linguistic and psychological models.
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