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A diverse collection of examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples. With an emphasis on the descriptive rather than the prescriptive, this guide shows the range of options available to editors as they make the choices that will affect their editions and determine the policies and styles.

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Lists the literature on editing written from 1960 through 1988, with particular focus on those works pertaining to the acquisition and preparation of texts for publication. The editor's involvement in all stages of the publishing process is covered.

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Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory and rhetoricians figured prominently in the development of contemporary composition and rhetoric. The volume begins with an introduction that discusses the various rhetorical movements of the time, including the importance of women to rhetorical theory.

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Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

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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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This book offers lenses and portraits of Latino/a adolescents who put into practice the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. It illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning in civic and schooling communities.

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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.