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By: Dr Caroline Coffin
ISBN: 9780826487766
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. This book demonstrates through a study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures.
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By: Dr Caroline Coffin
ISBN: 9781847065735
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, this work demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. It shows that language is a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.
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By: George A. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780691625324
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to the first centuries B.C. Beginning with the creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, the study
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By: Mary Rosner
ISBN: 9781567503982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the present may challenge the future. The papers include oral histories reflections given at the Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, 1996.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Rosner
ISBN: 9781567503975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A contribution to our understanding of how composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the present may challenge the future. The papers include oral histories reflections given at the Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, 1996.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Kieran File
ISBN: 9781350044234
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Kieran File
ISBN: 9781350044241
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Jonathan Fine
ISBN: 9781567500448
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Kenning
ISBN: 9780826417473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David W. Lightfoot
ISBN: 9780262620901
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Examines language acquisition and addresses the question of what it takes to set parameters defined in universal grammar. Lightfoot asserts that parameter-setting is not sensitive to embedded material, and that it is triggered only by robust elements that are structurally simple.
(Hardback)
By: Alison Sealey
ISBN: 9781350519619
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Demonstrates how animals are represented in contemporary English, drawing on data from a wide range of genres and contexts.
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By: Horst Ruthrof
ISBN: 9781350230873
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Horst Ruthrof
ISBN: 9781350230910
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Nikki Gamble
ISBN: 9780826448101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An examination of literacy in relation to a range of technology and media, such as talking books, email, video dating, interactive multimedia and on-line materials. In each case, the writers draw on state-of-the-art research to explain the implications for educational practice and policy.
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By: Dr Alla Tovares
ISBN: 9781350119147
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
ISBN: 9781623564667
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis
ISBN: 9781623564728
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ping Deters
ISBN: 9781623565749
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ping Deters
ISBN: 9781441105448
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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With globalization and the ever-increasing migration of professionals, issues related to learning an additional language and culture in professional contexts are prominent in many contemporary societies. This book examines the relationship between identity, agency, and second language acquisition through the experiences of immigrant professionals.
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By: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
ISBN: 9780826489944
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.
(Paperback)
By: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
ISBN: 9780826444738
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, this volume shows how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Stanley E. Porter
ISBN: 9781850753797
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Charles Altieri
ISBN: 9781350526655
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrea Moro
ISBN: 9780262549233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language.
