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The fall of communism fully opened Poland to the processes and phenomena operating in ever globalizing world. In line with global trends, English in post-socialist Poland has been steadily growing in importance. By employing a holistic integrative approach utilizing...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-15
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Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Tiburtius-Anerkennungspreis der Landeskonferenz der Rektoren und Präsidenten der Berliner Hochschulen (LKRP) ausgezeichnet. Wie lässt sich mündliche Sprachfähigkeit messen? Obwohl das Überprüfen und Evaluieren von Schule, Unterricht und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-13
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The Scandinavian presence all over Europe during the so-called Viking Age is well documented and England is not an exception. However, the influence of their language on the development of English has not always been well interpreted. This volume aims at deciphering the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-09
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From English in Australia to Australian English is the story of how the English language arrived in many different forms in Australia and how it evolved into a uniform variety in its own right. The corpus-based approach used here allowed empirical linguistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-06
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Similar to immersion, Content and language Integrated Learning (CLIL) combines second language education with other content-subjects and has become an important educational approach in many parts of the world. Only recently research on CLIL classrooms has started to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-06
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In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of essays by scholars and Americanists who labor under the conviction that the dynamically evolving field of postcolonial studies facilitates the development of new ways of conceptualizing...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-25
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Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, word-formation mechanisms that give rise to new words, and mechanisms that produce wordforms of existing words. Intended as a companion for students of English language and linguistics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-20
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This volume reflects the emerging interest in cross-disciplinary variation in both spoken and written academic English, exploring the conventions and modes of persuasion characteristic of different disciplines and which help define academic inquiry.This collection...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-09
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Since translation cannot be approached in isolation from meaning, anything that is said about translation must necessarily be placed in the context of meaning. Accordingly, the first volume of the book concerns this necessary context, while the second volume will view...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-22
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The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 December 2009 and organized by the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the Academy of Management in Lódz (Wyzsza...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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Intercultural crossings, which are at the core of our contemporary society, are underpinned and shaped by three essential elements: time, space and people. Such encounters and interactions have the capacity not only to promote diversity and a healthy exchange of ideas,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-04-17
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At the point in time when the abolition of slavery was being celebrated, another system of servitude was underway: indentureship. Indenture labor resulted in the transportation of one million Indians – called coolies – into British and French colonies. Unable or...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-03-27
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This book provides an overview of basic syntactic categories, analytical methods and theoretical frameworks that are needed for a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the syntax of English as it is spoken and written today. It is therefore useful for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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This volume offers an overview of new perspectives and ongoing developments in research on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and specialised discourse. Traditionally investigated on the basis of terminology and genre studies, the area now also draws on such diverse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-09
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Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part of the book critically examines current theoretical models and research methodologies in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-14
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"Sprachführer Englisch für Dummies" bietet einen schnellen Überblick über die wichtigsten Wörter und Redewendungen für den Alltag. Jedes Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit einer Alltagssituation: So haben Sie schnell die passenden Sätze parat, wenn Sie sich beispielsweise...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-02-13
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Für Dummies
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Nach der Lektüres dieses Buches werden Sie entspannt zum Hörer greifen, wenn Sie wieder einmal geschäftlich auf Englisch telefonieren müssen. Sie erfahren, wie Sie sich vorstellen, wie Sie nachfragen, wie Sie Small Talk treiben und wie Sie sich verabschieden. Die...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
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2012-02-13
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Für Dummies
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In this volume the author examines verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts written in English. Modal auxiliaries such as shall, may and must are analysed, as well as indicative tenses such as the present simple, and also non-finite constructions such as the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-19
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One of the main priorities of Stephen Harper’s government since it came to power in 2006 has been to preserve what it defines as «A Safe and Secure Canada.» Thus, it has remained in line with the radical security measures adopted by his predecessor following the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-12-12
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This book investigates lexical borrowing processes of our era in a sociolinguistic context. Innovatively, it seeks to examine language contact in a comprehensive way, taking into account socio- and psycholinguistic aspects as well as implications for language politics....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-09
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