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This book is a history composed of histories. From the authors' perspectives, change in technology drives changes in the ways we live and work, and we, agents to a degree in control of our own lives, use technology to achieve our human purposes.

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This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualized historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas about what constitutes the uniqueness of Chinese culture influence the ways we think about China.

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This comprehensive dictionary of words and phrases is for all who want to use the Scots language.

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This collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college graduates-turned-writers honestly and amusingly recounts wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events--using common SAT words as a study tool.

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Relying on cognitive linguistics, with examples taken from the Northern Irish context, this book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict.

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An exploration of diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects.

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Focussing on both theoretical and descriptive, this book contains a reference to the semantics of Chinese. It aims at how human beings construe their experience of the world. It offers an interpretation that is complementary to this, treating experience not as knowing but as meaning; and hence as something that is construed in language.

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One of the main focuses is on the adopted post-medieval and pre-modern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi homelands of Eastern Europe.

The book emphasizes the role of ludic or playful modifications of a language's structures at the colloquial level as sources of linguistic change.

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Offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is informing and engaging with neighbouring disciplines.

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Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title also presents fresh research in the 'traditional' areas of applied linguistics, including multilingualism, language education, teacher-learner relationships, and assessment.

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Offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is informing and engaging with neighbouring disciplines.

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Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a wide-range of interdisciplinary areas. This book presents an overview of various applications of linguistics to such diverse fields as economics, law, religion, tourism, media studies and health care.

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Presents alphabetically arranged entries for 108 leaders in composition studies and 127 terms and concepts central to the discipline.

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A state of the art reference volume on contemporary computer-assisted language learning, including chapters on research and methodology by leading international figures in the field.

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Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. It aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corpus linguistics.

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Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which corpus linguistics is being used by researchers. It aims to provide a snapshot of the field of corpus linguistics.

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