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How language works
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ISBN: 9780141015521 0141015527 Year: 2007 Publisher: London: Penguin books,

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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk shows not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.


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Text, discourse and society : functional and pragmatic approaches to language in use
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ISBN: 9783631617632 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bern New York : P. Lang,

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The wider scope of English : papers in English language and literature from the Bamberg conference of the International Association of University Professors of English
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ISBN: 3631555091 Year: 2006 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Bern Bruxelles : Peter Lang,

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From a diachronic point of view, two linguistic contributions deal with grammaticalization and iconicity and with metaphorical aspects of compounding. The other two linguistic papers are related to the present. One offers a critique of perceptual dialectology and the other is concerned with recent developments in computer cartography. The contributions in the domains of literary and cultural studies demonstrate the wide extension of the field of enquiry and of current methods. Historically, they reach from the Old English period to the present day, and systematically, from new approaches in the interpretation of particular works through overviews over the regional validity of modes of literary aesthetics to recent innovations in literary theory and narratology.


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Les variations diasystématiques et leurs interdépendances dans les langues romanes : actes du Colloque DIA II à Copenhague (19-21 nov. 2012)
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ISBN: 9782372760027 Year: 2015 Publisher: Strasbourg : Éditions de linguistique et de philologie,

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Een attitudeonderzoek bij scholieren uit Tongeren en omgeving naar hun houding tegenover het Standaardnederlands, de tussentaal en het dialect
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Year: 2015

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Varieties of English : a typological approach
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ISBN: 9780521186933 9780521764964 9781139028240 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The new uses of English "like" and French "genre" : a corpus-based, contrastive study
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Year: 2016

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Enjeux et atouts du français en Afrique noire : recueil d'articles parus entre 1966 et 2006
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ISBN: 9782343030760 2343030766 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris [etc.] L'Harmattan

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A travers une douzaine de ses articles gravitant autour du français en Afrique noire, c'est toute l'histoire et la conception de l'enseignement de la langue française en Afrique subsaharienne qui sont rappelés ici, ainsi que la cohabitation tout aussi essentielle avec les langues africaines indigènes et l'apport indéniable du français d'Afrique au français universel. Un témoignage de premier plan sur la francophonie africaine, par celui qui présida le conseil scientifique de l'Inventaire des particularités lexicales du français en Afrique noire.


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Weil man es so sagt : wissenschaftstheoretische und valenzlexikographische Überlegungen zu ausgewählten Aspekten der lexikalischen Variation
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ISBN: 9783631597545 Year: 2010 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang,

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Translation of title: Because you said it that way: scientifically theoretical and valence lexicographical considerations regarding specific aspects of lexical variations.


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The Variability of Current World Englishes
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ISBN: 9783110352108 9783110394917 9783110339673 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further, the book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical variables, frequencies, and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur studies of diversities in English (and in other languages), to suggest approaches to adapt, to invite counterargument and developments in analysis.

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