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Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This book examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.

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Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This volume examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.

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This book looks at the historic use of foreign language by the U.S. armed forces. A necessary skill in the acquisition of intelligence, language skill emerges from this study as being of concern as well for command, control, communications, and for civil military operations.

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This book looks at the historic use of foreign language by the U.S. armed forces. A necessary skill in the acquisition of intelligence, language skill emerges from this study as being of concern as well for command, control, communications, and for civil military operations.

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This book describes language diversity and classroom discourse: language use in the classroom in which children are dialect speakers. Finally, dialect diversity in the classroom is considered in light of the relationship between language, education, and society at large.

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Examines the processes involved in dictionary-making using computational linguistics, including tagging, parsing, spell-checking, lexical semantics and machine translation. This book examines dictionary-building in English, but also includes appendices applying natural language processing to French and German.

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Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. This work looks at such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; and, language birth and language death.

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Explores the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Focusses on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis (University of Southampton) under the title Language, discourse and ideology: Academia Espaanola and the standardisation of Spanish. 2008.

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Critically analyses press discourse in which the Real Academia Espaola promotes a global vision of the Spanish language.

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"An edited collection of prominent scholars in the field of language acquisition and development, focusing primarily on syntax and morphosyntax from formalist generative perspective"--

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This volume offers contemporary investigations of the Whorfian idea that language influences how we perceive and understand the world.

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Assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics.

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Assesses the assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics, which is based on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. The author argues that language is behaviour, which has evolved in human genetics through time.

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Examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. This work is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.

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Part of the "Advances in Sociolinguistics" series, this work examines the ways in which the media represents language related issues, and also looks at how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like.

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This volume features work on learning by researchers in various disciplines who share an interest in the systematic study of cognition and in the study of the formal and semantic aspects of language acquisition.

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Examines economic, social and political factors influencing language education, and presents a global perspective on English language acquisition. This book explores English language acquisition and development outside of the largely monolingual environments of North America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Examines economic, social and political factors influencing language education, and presents a global perspective on English language acquisition.