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Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation
"This anthologybrings the keywritings on translation in Arabic in the pre-modern era, extending from the earliest times (sixth century CE) until the end of World War I, to a global English-speaking audience. The texts are arranged chronologically and organized by two historical periods: the Classical Period, and the Nahda Period. Each text is preceded by an introduction about the selected text …
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- 9781000513301
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- 417
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- Translation Studies in Translation,
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A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with pro…
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- 9781107050952
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Yorùbá Yé Mi : A Beginning Yorùbá Textbook
The Yorùbá Yé Mi textbook, combined with an open access, multi-media website, is an interactive, communicative, introductory Yorùbá program. It provides college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-…
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- 9781937963026
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- 400 MOS y
The Ik language : Dictionary and grammar sketch
This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ik, one of the three Kuliak (Rub) languages spoken in the beautiful Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. It is the lexicographic sequel to A grammar of Ik (Icé-tód): Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language (Schrock 2014). The present volume includes an Ik-English dictionary with roughly 8,700 entries, followed by a reversed English…
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- Vol. 1.0
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- 9783944675961
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- African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 1
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- 400 SCH i
Knowledge, democracy and action : Community–university research partnership…
Knowledge, democracy and action is based on a three-year international comparative study undertaken by the Global Alliance on Community Based Research and supported by the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. It provides evidence from twenty case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholar…
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- 9780719089787
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- 370 KNO
Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence : Bridging Theory and Practice
This volume features the latest research findings on L2 interactional competence to demonstrate the potential for developing and implementing research-based pedagogy that targets interactional competence (IC) in early instruction in a variety of L2 learning and teaching contexts. Incorporating contributions from both leading and emerging researchers in the area, the book is organized into four …
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- 1
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- 9781351709118, 1351709119
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- 370 TEA
Incentives and Performance: Governance of Research Organizations
This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-financial incentives for researchers. The expert contributions in the book deal with implementation of incentive systems at higher education institutions in order to foster innovation. On the other hand, the book also discusses the extent to which governa…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09784-8
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- XXV, 488
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- 360 INC
A Grammar of Music To which are Prefixed Observations Explanatory of the Pro…
The writer, composer and organist Thomas Busby (1754–1838) is best remembered for his highly entertaining Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes (1825), which paints a vivid picture of musical life at the time. The son of a coach painter, Busby was originally articled to the composer Jonathan Battishill but found the experience unrewarding. His compositions (many now lost) include songs, theatr…
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- 9781139833608
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Music
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A Government Out of Sight The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Ce…
While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government interven…
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- 9780511576324
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A Glossary Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and Allusions to Customs,…
Originally published in 1822, Robert Nares' glossary of antiquated Elizabethan terms is the result of a personal interest in and love of Elizabethan literature. Nares (1753–1829), well known as a scholar and clergyman, was also a keen philologist and antiquary. This glossary was undertaken in his spare time, and compiled over forty years as he was often occupied with various academic and cler…
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- 9781139093781
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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