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A comprehensive examination of the Zodiac as a semiotic code spanning various aspects of the meanings and functions of zodiacal systems.

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Combining social semiotics with a design-oriented perspective on learning, this book shows how toys and games transform how children learn to understand and act in the world.

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This book traces from antiquity to the present the concept of the sentence as a fundamental unit of human language and cognition and situates it in different languages and linguistic and philosophical theories.

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This volume explores how a political and social theory of writing can inform pedagogy, including an analysis of how students' educational histories limit teacher and student roles, and how we might work to enlarge both.

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Looks at the problematic and controversial area of identity, re-examining the analytical tools employed in sociolinguistic research. This title is suitable for academics researching sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and second language learning.

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Examines the analytical tools employed in the sociolinguistic research of 'identity' in order to assess their efficiency, establish the roles of language in the identity claims of specific communities of people, and determine the place of identity in a variety of social contexts, including work places and language classrooms.

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A collection of definitions of standard English worlds as well as English words from another reality.

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Leonard Francis Brosnahan investigates Professor C. D. Darlington's hypothesis that genetic factors influence the sound of speech. Using modern genetic theory as a basis, he analyzes the relationship of the individual, the mating group, and the population to the sounds of the languages they speak.

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Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics.

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Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political th

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A thorough overview of work on discourse markers covering a variety of approaches, from discourse analysis to computational linguistics

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Offers a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. This book is of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

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A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework

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Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable, this book examines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline.

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Bridging the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as creative literary practice, this book aims at giving voice to silent translators and in so doing to move the attention back to the act of translating.

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Aims to bridge the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as distinctive creative literary practice.