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"While covering typical pragmatics topics, this book presents a new view on pragmatics: integrative pragmatics. It is comprehensive in its coverage, yet incorporates state-of-the-art research. Examples and case studies throughout connect theory with data, and illuminate how pragmatics phenomena and concepts are realised or tempered in English"--

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Examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. This work shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views.

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This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.

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Intended for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this text presents a wide survey of methodological procedures and theoretical positions.

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This book provides hands-on experience with a major area of modern phonology, including phonetics; phonetic variation; natural classes of sounds; alternations; rule systems; and prosodic phonology.

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This book examines the relation of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on Raising to object position to the surface structure syntactic results of that rule. The investigation is limited primarily to English constructions of four types and to verbs that embed clauses describing propositions.

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Introduces drama strategies for language teachers to maximise learners' engagement, retention and development of personal and social skills.

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Introduces drama strategies for language teachers to maximise learners' engagement, retention and development of personal and social skills.

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Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning. This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching.

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Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar instruction in its focus on structured input rather than learners' output. This book looks at the relative effectiveness of Processing Instruction on discourse-level linguistic ability.

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provides good answers to the expectations it title raisesthe book provides far more than just an approach for processing two tropes: the whole methods gives a way to distinguish diifferent tropes and literal language, to process meaning representations, and to resolve lexical ambiguity. Computational Linguistics

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. For each of these professions, this book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. This book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together insights into the processing of persuasive messages, attitude theory as viewed from a neural network model, and models of resistance to influence.

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This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together insights into the processing of persuasive messages, attitude theory as viewed from a neural network model, and models of resistance to influence.

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Exemplifies a trend in grammatical theory which combines findings from more than one area of linguistics. The author looks at the relationship between phrasal prominence and focus in Romance and Germanic languages to provide insights into how these properties are grammatically articulated.

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Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language.

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Science and technology have starring roles in a wide range of genres--science fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, and more.

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Examines how the translation profession assesses and improves quality.