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Technological change is today central to the theory of economic growth. It is recognised as an important driver of productivity growth and the emergence of new products from which consumers derive welfare. It depends not only on the work of scientists and engineers, but also on a wider range of economic and societal factors, including institutions such as intellectual property rights and corpor…
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- 9789535156246
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- 254 p. : ill.
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- 403.6 TEI t
Charting the future of translation history
Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research area.This book aims at claiming such auto…
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- 9780776606248
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- vii, 344 p.
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- 418.0209 BAS c
Early greek alphabetic writing : a linguistic approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9781789257441
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- ix, 139 p.
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- 481.1 AST e
Script effects as the hidden drive of the mind, cognition, and culture
This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offeri…
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- Literacy Studies, 21
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- 9783030551520
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- 251 p.: ill.
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- 411.019 PAE s
Script and society : the social context of writing practices in late Bronze A…
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is ac…
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- 9781789255843
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- viii, 308 p . : ill.
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- 411.70939433 BOY s
Studies in the grammar and lexicon of neo-Aramaic
The volume makes a major contribution to the field of Neo-Aramaic and significantly advances research. The articles present new analyses and new primary data from several endangered dialects, many of which have so far not been systematically documented, and in some cases have not been documented at all. It is good to see that the examples have been given glossing, so that this important materia…
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- 9781783749492
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- xxvi, 511 p.
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- 492.2 KHA s
Collaborative learning and new media : new insights into an evolving field
This book is an essential resource for researchers in the field of applied linguistics as well as practising teachers and teacher trainees in secondary and higher education. It explores collaboration in the foreign language classroom through the use of new media. Combining theoretical, empirical and practical insights into this intricate area of research, the contributions take different approa…
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- 9783653059212
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- 401 p.
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- 407.85 COL c
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching
The Open Access version of this book will be available soon. This book introduces readers to the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT), a learner-centred and experiential approach to language teaching and learning. Based on the premise that language learners can enhance their second language acquisition (SLA) through engagement in communicative tasks that compel them to use language fo…
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- 9781003039709
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- XVI, 198 p.
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- ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
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- 418.0071 EAS f
Prosiding seminar nasional bahasa dan sastra: mengukuhkan fungsi bahasa dan s…
Prosiding Seminar Nasional Bahasa dan Sastra (SNBS) 1 ini merupakan hasil Seminar Nasional Bahasa dan Sastra yang diikuti peserta dari berbagai kalangan, mulai dari mahasiswa, dosen, guru, sastrawan, dan peneliti. Prosiding ini memuat hampir seluruh pemakalah bahasa dan sastra dalam bingkai penguat jati diri bangsa mulai dari kelayakan karya sastra sebagai bahan bacaan siswa, resepsi sastra, t…
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- 9786024960070
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- xxiv,778 p ; 25 cm
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- 4.899.221 PRO p
Concepts, frames and cascades in semantics, cognition and ontology
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so,…
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- 9783030502003
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- ix, 486p. : ill.
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- 401.9 CON c
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