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Language and linguistics : emerging trends /

"A language is a dynamic set of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication; although animals m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dreyer, Cynthia R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • As the call, so the echo: proverbs as cues to cultural knowledge and language change / Kristyl Kepley
  • Specifying coordination: an investigation into the syntax of dislocation, extraposition and parenthesis / Mark de Vries
  • Learner perception and strategies for pragmatic acquisition: a glimpse into online learning materials / Julie M. Sykes and Andrew D. Cohen
  • "Best success through language loss?" An incipient Austrian sociolinguistic study on open questions in education and migration research / Katharina Brizic
  • A contribution to the study of Russian euphemistic youth slang / Brian Cooper
  • What do we learn on language acquisition from Williams Syndrome? / Agnès Lacroix, Vesna Stojanovik and Ágnes Lukács
  • The need for explicit inferential methods in linguistics / Kent Johnson
  • 'Doing' disciplinary power: manager-subordinate interaction in a staff meeting / Jonathon Clifton
  • Simulation tasks: can EFL learners interact as effectively with each other as they can with native speakers? / Yasuo Nakatani
  • The effect of text difficulty of reading comprehension tests on cognitive and metacognitive strategy use / Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz and Hassan Rouhi.