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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
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- 978-981-10-0661-6
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- 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
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- 978-3-319-30478-6
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- 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
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- 978-3-662-46367-3
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- 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
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- 978-3-319-20955-5
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- 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
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- 978-3-319-17800-4
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- VII, 194
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- -
- 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
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- 978-3-319-17064-0
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- 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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- -
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- 9781108591263
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- -
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- -
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- 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
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- 978-3-319-20663-9
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- VI, 295
- Series Title
- Biosemiotics
- Call Number
- 401.41
Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure
This book provides a detailed study of Icelandic argument structure alternations within a syntactic theory of argument structure. Building on recent theorizing within the Minimalist Program and Distributed Morphology, the author proposes that much of what is traditionally attributed to syntax should be relegated to the interfaces, and adapts the late insertion theory of morphology to semantics.…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-09137-2
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- XXI, 316
- Series Title
- Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- Call Number
- 415 WOO
Language, Nation, Race : Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese languag…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0520381726
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 400 UED l
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