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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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Examines how the translation profession assesses and improves quality.

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"First published in 2008 by Continuum."--Title page verso.

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"First published in 2008 by Continuum."--Title page verso.

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The book contains a discussion of such well-recognized fallacies as many questions, black-or-white questions, loaded questions, circular arguments, question-begging assertions and epithets, ad hominem and tu quoque arguments, ignoratio elenchi, and replying to a question with a question.

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Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children elucidates how children learn foreign languages and when they can do so with the best results.

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Library media specialists, Pre-K2 classroom teachers, and even parents can use these tested activities with confidence. This thorough, well-organized book shows you how! Presents picture book summaries, reading lists, and fun activities detailing lesson time, standards, and skills addressed. Appropriate for classroom, library, or home.

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Through its constuctivist orientation and Sociocultural perspective, this book contributes to an improved understanding of what it means to read and, particularly, to recall, second language texts in the context of both second language reading and research.

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Through its constuctivist orientation and Sociocultural perspective, this book contributes to an improved understanding of what it means to read and, particularly, to recall, second language texts in the context of both second language reading and research.

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Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, this title offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in the great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind.

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This volume includes essays by writing specialists who are concerned with their own failure to improve their students' writing skills.

These contributors examine why entering college students still write poorly and why our various attempts to improve such poor writing skills have largely failed.

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Currently, there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text.

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This work describes language as a network of functional relations. It presents essays on the theory of language as functional relations and essays which describe an oral text from a variety of functional perspectives.

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This work describes language as a network of functional relations. It presents essays on the theory of language as functional relations and essays which describe an oral text from a variety of functional perspectives.

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This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax.

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