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Helps the readers improve their fiction work, one essential 'element' at a time.

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Offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991. This study analyses the contact-induced change in Russian under the impact of Estonian in the theoretical framework of code-copying.

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A fascinating new study examining how contact-induced change can alter a previously monolingual society to create one that is increasingly bilingual.

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Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. Women must be shown how the everyday language of politicians, educators, and newscasters is not natural but is marked--designed for manipulative purposes that put women at risk.

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In this volume, concrete evidence is brought to bear in resolving long-standing questions such as "Is there one English language or many Englishes" and "Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes"

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Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca. It examines how idiomaticity enables first language learners to achieve a greater degree of fluency.

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Using a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomaticity in English as a native language, and its comparative role in English as a lingua franca.

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A work on collocation written and circulated among a small and influential group of researchers in 1970 but never published until now. The volume reports on the earliest empirical research into collocation.

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This is the first published edition of Sinclair, Jones and Daley's research on collocation, completed in 1970. The original was arguably the first report on research carried out on an electronically held corpus, and it sparked interest in collocation amongst researchers. J.R.

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Examines the field of teaching English in occupational settings as a particular instance of general workplace training and development. This book unites scholarship on workplace English with general training. It is suitable for researchers in English for specific purposes and applied linguistics as well as scholars of workplace education.

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Aimed at all those who are taking English degrees or teaching them, English in Practice is a reflective overview of the discipline's core and why we study it. This book acts as a map for the terrain of English studies and can be used from pre-degree through to Masters level.

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Examines different conceptions of English as an international language, looking at world Englishes, native-speakers and 'standard' English. This book also covers the pedagogical implications of English as an international language; and addresses key questions with regard to the teaching of English.

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Examines different conceptions of English as an international language, looking at world Englishes, native-speakers and 'standard' English. This book also covers the pedagogical implications of English as an international language; and addresses key questions with regard to the teaching of English.

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Provides a critical analysis of the materials used for learning English around the world, considering both the teachers' and the learners requirements. This research is useful for academics researching materials development and applied linguistics and for students on post-graduate applied linguistics and ELT courses.

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Presents a review of the materials used for learning English around the world. This book includes a discussion of materials for specific learners and purposes while presenting a study of the materials used in different countries, and evaluating their effectiveness in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.

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A collection of unique, practical insights on teaching English in Latin America, direct from the teachers themselves.