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Proposes a fresh model of genre-based approaches to academic writing, and analyses the ways in which this can be implemented in pedagogy and curriculum design. This book focuses on the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. It is suitable for researchers in applied linguistics.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. This book uses empirical data drawn from a sample of student writing, compared against written sources to argue that some plagiarism can be regarded as a failure of pedagogy rather than a deliberate attempt to transgress.

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Examines what constitutes plagiarism in academic writing using empirical data and from a linguistic perspective. >

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Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.

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Focuses on the issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL students and scholars who choose to, or have to, write in English in higher education contexts.

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Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This book illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches. It is suitable for researches and postgraduates in applied linguistics.

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Aselection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

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Explores how British trainee teachers modify their accents to construct an identity considered 'appropriate' for their profession and discusses the impact on their personal identity.

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This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system.

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Presents an analysis of the problems of learning a second language as experienced by a family of learners. This book includes a study of a family of L2 English learners, focusing on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe, and a study of social and linguistic factors in that time period.

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A study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It analyses data from actual language learners to examine the developmental processes involved in acquiring a nonnative sound system. It focuses on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe.

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Using the works of African American female writers, this folklinguistic study presents research on the use of language that counters social stereotypes. Topics include language and gender, and the relationship between language and ethnic group, region, and social class.

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Explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. This book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies.

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In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse.

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An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.

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This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. >

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Presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. The author looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling, and Negative Concord.