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Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group's depl…
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- 9781316423202
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- xii, 308p. : ill.
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- 820.9006 SCH l
Open education and second language learning and teaching : the rise of a new …
This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence. This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials.
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- 9781800411005
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- XI, 271 p.
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- 418.0071 OPE o
Language and the making of modern India : nationalism and the vernacular in c…
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of na…
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- 9781108591263
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- x, 247p. : ill.
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- 409.54133 MIS l
From revolt to riches : culture and history of the Low Countries, 1500-1700
This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Re…
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- 9781910634899
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- XII, 310 p.
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- Global Dutch
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- 949.202 HER f
How we read : tales, fury, Nothing, sound
What do we do when we read? Reading can be an act of consumption or an act of creation. Our “work reading” overlaps with our “pleasure reading,” and yet these two modes of reading engage with different parts of the self. It is sometimes passive, sometimes active, and can even be an embodied form. The contributors to this volume share their own histories of reading in order to reveal the…
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- 9781950192311
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- 186 p.; 22cm.
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- 028.9 HEL h
Easy language research : text and user perspectives
This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties at different levels (Easy Language, Plain Language, Easy Language Plus). While all are possible solutions to foster communicative inclusion of people with disabilities, they …
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- vo.2
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- 9783732993024
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- 285 p.
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- Easy – Plain – Accessible, 2
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- 417.0721 EAS e
Easy Language – plain language – easy language plus : balancing comprehen…
This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stig…
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- Vol. 3
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- 9783732992997
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- 301 p.
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- Easy – Plain – Accessible, 3
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- 428.2 MAA e
Simplified sign: a manual sign-communication system for special populations, …
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity…
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- 9781783749263
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- 419 BON s
Simplified sign: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, …
Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity…
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- 9781800640023
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- 419 BON s
Expressions of Austronesian thought and emotions
This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions.
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- 9781760461911
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- 210 p.; 22 cm.
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- 499.2 EXP e
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