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Explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. This book concludes that such research generally contains little in the way of thorough and in-depth coverage of the key ideas and conceptual frameworks said to undergird it.

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Explores how political economy intersects with sociolinguistics, specifically how neoliberalism, inequality and social class mediate language in society issues. This book concludes that such research generally contains little in the way of thorough and in-depth coverage of the key ideas and conceptual frameworks said to undergird it.

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"Portraits of Linguists" is a standard biographical work in the history and theory of linguistics and a resource for all scholars of 18th, 19th and early 20th-century Western linguistics. Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, this text contains articles by eminent scholars in English, French and German.

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Explores historical, cultural, linguistic, technological and institutional influences on Translation Studies.

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Enriches Possible Worlds Theory and stylistics by using reader response data and stylistic analysis in a framework of textual possible and actual worlds to explore how literary texts affect readers emotions.

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Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists.

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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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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.