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Corpus linguistics and 17th-century prostitution
Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focusing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can ass…
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- 9781472506092
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- 272 p.; 22 cm.
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- Research in Corpus and Discourse
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- 410.9 MCE c
Doing applied linguistics. Enabling transdisciplinary communication
How can students be empowered to communicate professionally – as translators, journalists and CCOs? How can professionals engaged in crucial language interactions do the same – pilots, nurses, lawyers and many others? This volume gives answers to these questions, providing insights into critical situations and good practices from many years of research and teaching in a practice-oriented, r…
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- 9783110496604
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- viii, 251 p.; 22 cm.
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- De Gruyter Collection
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- 418 DOI d
An anthology of asemic handwriting
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observat…
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- 9789081709170
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- 213 p.
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- 411.09 JAC a
Tense and text in classical Arabic : a discourse-oriented study of the classi…
This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by medieval and modern grammarians, this study attempts to redefine the discussion and propose a new analysis of the tenses, based on a functional text-oriented investigation of a …
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- 241 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
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- 415 MAR t
Sound structure and sound change: a modeling approach
Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for increased depth of study. This is necessary and productive for a topic as wide-ranging and complex as human language. However, precisely because language is a complex system, tied to perception, learning, memory, and social organization, …
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- 9783961101917
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- 412 MOR s
The Unicode cookbook for linguists: managing writing systems usingorthography…
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with fru…
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- 978396110091
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- Translation and Multilingual NaturalLanguage Processing 10
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- 410 MOR u
Talk in interaction: comparative dimensions
"During the recent decades Conversation Analysis has developed into a distinctive method for analyzing talk in interaction. The method is utilized in several disciplines sharing an interest in social interaction, like anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, and sociology, and it has been applied to a great variety of languages and types of interaction. Conversation Analysis then is coming…
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- 9789522227843
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- 317 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studia Fennica Linguistica
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- 400.82 TAL t
Plurilingualism and multiliteracies international research on identity constr…
LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual and multicultural international research network on language acquisition and language education. The current research focus is on Identity Construction in Language Education. This volume summarizes some research results of the last four years by presenting empirical research projects as well as theoretical concepts. The contributions all deal with topics linked to pl…
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- 9783653032291
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- 311 p.; 22 cm
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- 417.7 PLU p
Advances in proof-theoretic semantics
This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between Heyting's and Gentzen's approaches to meaning, knowability paradoxes, proof-theoretic foundations of set theory, Du…
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- 9783319226866
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- 283 p.; 23 cm.
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- Trends in Logic: 43
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- 412.01 ADV a
Grammatical gender and linguistic complexity, Volume 1
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple…
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- 9783961101795
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 410 GRA g
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