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Positive Psychology Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning. It focuses both on the well-being and success of the learner and the professional and personal well-being of the teacher. F…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-32954-3
- Collation
- XX, 366
- Series Title
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Call Number
- 150.198 GAB p
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans
This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, s…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-22985-0
- Collation
- XVIII, 373
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 155.9042 RIT p
Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China : An Ethnographic Ca…
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by dis…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-0661-6
- Collation
- XXV, 202 halaman
- Series Title
- Multilingual Education
- Call Number
- 404.2 WAN p
Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neurocognitive Research and Interventi…
The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of Prof. Zvia Breznitz, whose groundbreaking research has made a tremendous impact on the understanding of fluency in reading. The book presents a multidimensional perspective of recent research and reviews on fluency in reading. The first part presents recent brain-imaging findings from studies into the neurobiological basis of reading, as well as co…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-30478-6
- Collation
- XV, 161
- Series Title
- Literacy Studies
- Call Number
- 407
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-46367-3
- Collation
- XX, 178
- Series Title
- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
- Call Number
- 400 HEQ a
Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributi…
This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in pragma-dialectics; pragma-dialectical perspectives on the dialectical and pragmatic dimensions of argumentative discourse; the no…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20955-5
- Collation
- XXIV, 904
- Series Title
- Argumentation Library
- Call Number
- 400
Geospatial Semantic Web
This book covers key issues related to Geospatial Semantic Web, including geospatial web services for spatial data interoperability; geospatial ontology for semantic interoperability; ontology creation, sharing, and integration; querying knowledge and information from heterogeneous data source; interfaces for Geospatial Semantic Web, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and Geospatial Seman…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-17800-4
- Collation
- VII, 194
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 401.43 ZHA g
Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics
The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian Natural Language Interpretation and make proposals based on information theory, probability theory, and related fields. The methodologies offe…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-17064-0
- Collation
- XI, 246
- Series Title
- Language, Cognition, and Mind
- Call Number
- 401.44
Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Co…
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108591263
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 491.4 MIS l
Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20663-9
- Collation
- VI, 295
- Series Title
- Biosemiotics
- Call Number
- 401.41
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