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Cohesion, coherence and temporal reference from an experimental corpus pragma…
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to…
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- 9783319967523
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- 319 p.; 23 cm.
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- 401.43 GRI c
Individual differences in speech production and perception
Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest both in human sciences and speech technology. It can yield important insights into biological, cognitive, communicative, and social aspects of language. Written by specialists in psycholinguistics, phonetics, speech development, speech perception and speech technology, this volume presents experimental and modeling studies t…
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- 9783653963830
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- 284 p.; 23 cm.
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- 414 IND i
Pastplay : teaching and learning history with technology
A collection of scholars and teachers of history unpack how computing technologies are transforming the ways that we learn, communicate, and teach.
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- 9780472119370
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- viii, 338p. : ill.
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- 907 PAS p
Teaching history in the digital age
A practical guide on how one professor employs the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history
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- 9780472118786
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- xiii, 167p. : ill.
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- 907.85 KEL t
Teaching mathematics at secondary level
Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limited National Curriculum, and engaged with secondary schooling for those aged 11 ̶ 14 (Key Stage 3) in particular, this handbook for teachers will help them broaden and enrich their students’ mathematical education. It avoids specifying how to teach, and focuses instead on the central principles a…
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- 9781783741397
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- vii, 316p. : ill.
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- 510.712 GAR t
The Expression of gender
Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language. Each of the seven contributions provides an independent account of a key part of the topic, ranging from gender and sex, gender and culture, to typology, dialect variation and psycholinguistics.
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- 9783110307337
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- 230 p.; 22 cm.
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- 401.43 CAR e
Benefit-sharing in environmental governance : local experiences of a global c…
Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. These loca…
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- 9780429198311
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- vi, 208p. : ill.
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- 333.7 PAR b
The digital transformation of labor : automation, the gig economy and welfare
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalization/digital…
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- 9780429317866
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- xxi, 349p. : ill.
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- 331.11 DIG d
Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted in the assumption that, by virtue of their training and experience, intellectuals possess kno…
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- 9781771990349
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- VII, 208 p.
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 305.552 SPE s
governance of educational welfare markets
This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an …
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- 1st edition.
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- 9783034318990 (alk. paper)
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- 379.4 STA t
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