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• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 29,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

A look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, forgrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language

• Publisher : Peter Lang
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

The chapters constituting this volume focus on legal language seen from cross-cultural perspectives, a topic which brings together two areas of research that have burgeoned in recent years, i.e.

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 36,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 August 2010

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains four sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics,

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 10 September 2015

Academic discourse has recently become a blooming field of research for linguists interested in genre and discourse analysis, as well as pragmatics. The methodology and conventions employed in academic discourse,

• Publisher : Prentice Hall
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• Release Date : 19 May 1987

Papers presented at a conference organized by the Institute of Culture and Communication of the East West Center in 1983 revised and updated.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 30 October 2015

In this interdisciplinary book, Juliane House breaks new ground by situating translation within Applied Linguistics. In thirteen chapters, she examines translation as a means of communication across different languages and

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 18 November 1999

This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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• Release Date : 21 August 2017

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (

• Publisher : Psychology Press
• File Size : 22,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word