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This study takes up Thoreau’s work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno’s formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreau’s famous dictum from the early pages...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-08-20
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This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-07-28
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This study examines the range of culinary verbs found in the English culinary recipes of the 14th and 15th centuries. Altogether over 1500 recipes have been collected and over 100 verbs were selected for the research. They have been divided into three major semantic...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-07-07
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A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. The aim of this study is to analyse syntactic dislocation in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 and to...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-07-07
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This book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions – plus the first complete list of...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-07-07
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This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-05-26
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Lingua francas are languages used for communication between individuals for whom they are not the first language. Based on empirical work throughout, the individual contributions to this volume address lingua franca communication from sociolinguistic as well as from...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-05-13
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Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-05-05
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The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change, thus offering a...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-22
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This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-14
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This book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies, verbal memory,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-03-24
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This book addresses the issue of task equivalence, which is of fundamental importance in the areas of language testing and task-based research, where task equivalence is a prerequisite. The main study examines the two ‘seemingly-equivalent’ picture-based spoken...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-15
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As a result of its colonial past, Canadian culture has been shaped by French, British and other European influences; since the second half of the twentieth century, however, large-scale immigration from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, as...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-05
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This rich and varied collection of papers is concerned with feedback in the language learning context. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the feedback process including peer feedback, online feedback, learner-centred feedback, feedback formulation as well as...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-05
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In literary works, the law of genre – generic boundaries determined by institutions and conventions of art and literature – reacts to threats of impurity. The three significant modernist works addressed herein by James Joyce (Ulysses), Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts),...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2013-11-04
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Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. The key idea that frames the book is the assumption concerning the culture-creating functions of such dichotomies as containment/incontinence,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-04
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This book explores a dialect contact situation in a second language setting – native speakers of English coming to Japan from different parts of the world as English teachers. It focuses on an Anglophone community in which speakers are socially and geographically mobile...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-04
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This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-09-16
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This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-07-09
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This book examines the relationship between learner motivation and cultural contents for the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. It takes Chile as an example of the «Expanding Circle of English», where the 21st century has brought new challenges to English...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-07-03
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