Download or read book Sophisticated Speakers written by Carlo Vessella and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores for the first time the relation between Atticist lexicography and the pronunciation of Greek, an aspect of Atticism that has never been studied thouroughly before. It examines the ideas of the Atticist about what Greek should sound like, drawing on Atticist lexicography as the main source of information on the special pronunciation of the Atticist. The book addresses all scholars with an interest in Atticism, Greek in the Imperial period, and linguistic purism more in general. It sheds new light on an aspect of Atticism that is otherwise poorly attested, and complements the existiting study on later Greek and the impact of Atticism in the history of the Greek language.
Download or read book Sophisticated Speakers written by Carlo Vessella and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ENGLISH PROFICIENCY FOR ADVANCED ENGLISH SPEAKERS written by Ritesh Kumar and published by Rudra Publications. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended for advanced students of English. It is written mainly as a self-study book. It might also be used in class with a teacher. It will also be a great help to English Teachers. A self-study reference and practice book for advanced Indian students This book is specially written for advanced students of English who wish to improve their language skills to the next level, yet seem to have hit a plateau. Regardless of the action taken, progress seems to be slow or lacklustre. This book focuses on how to sound proficient, fluent, and more confident. It guides you on pronunciation, diction, phonetics, syllable stress, word stress, thought groups, focus words, intonation, daily use expressions, corporate expressions, email etiquette, and advanced grammar. It enables you to speak like a native English speaker, and it is also useful for IELTS and other international competitive examinations. HOW TO USE THE BOOK: This book includes all the aspects of spoken English. There are 19 chapters in the book. It’s not necessary to work through the chapters in order. This book talks about fluency and how to get it. It begins with the phonetic alphabet which is a prerequisite for good pronunciation. There are many English sounds that are not there in Indian languages. Hence, it's of utmost importance to know them to pronounce them better. Then the book elaborates on syllable and word stress. It also helps you understand the key concept of thought groups, focus words, and intonation. It is endowed with some advanced and practical grammar rules along with useful expressions.
Download or read book Fictional Objects written by Stuart Brock and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or concrete? Are they actual? Are they complete objects? Are they possible objects? How many fictional objects are there? What are their identity conditions? What kinds of attitudes can we have towards them? This volume will be a landmark in the philosophical debate about fictional objects, and will influence higher-level debates within metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
Download or read book Sophisticated Speakers written by Carlo Vessella and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores for the first time the relation between Atticist lexicography and the pronunciation of Greek, an aspect of Atticism that has never been studied thouroughly before. It examines the ideas of the Atticist about what Greek should sound like, drawing on Atticist lexicography as the main source of information on the special pronunciation of the Atticist. The book addresses all scholars with an interest in Atticism, Greek in the Imperial period, and linguistic purism more in general. It sheds new light on an aspect of Atticism that is otherwise poorly attested, and complements the existiting study on later Greek and the impact of Atticism in the history of the Greek language.
Download or read book Advanced Speaker Designs for the Hobbyist and Technican written by Ray Alden and published by Delmar. This book was released on 1995 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Speaker Designs shows the electronics hobbyist and the experienced technician how to create high-quality speaker systems for the home, office, or auditorium. Every part of the system is covered in detail, from the driver and crossover network to the enclosure itself. You can build speaker systems from the parts lists and instructions provided, or you can actually learn to calculate design parameters, system responses, and component values with scientific calculators or PC software. You can also learn how to measure driver parameters and predict system responses for greater precision.
Download or read book E learning Tools and Technologies written by William Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to help you cut through the hype in order to select the best E-Learning tools and vendors for your specific needs With its ability to both reduce operating costs and train more people, E-Learning is an attractive option for companies that are trying to balance business and educational goals. But in order to implement an E-Learning program, you'll have to wade through hundreds of learning management systems, learning content management systems, authoring schools, and collaboration environments to determine what solution will work best for your situation. In this in-depth book, recognized E-Learning experts William and Katherine Horton survey the entire field of E-Learning tools for you. They provide you with a systematic way to identify, evaluate, and choose products and services based on different E-Learning scenarios. In this no-holds barred look at E-Learning tools, the authors: * Arm you with a complete list of questions to ask vendors before you commit to a product * Describe product limitations throughout each chapter and include special Rant sections that you must read * Present tips and tricks as well as common mistakes to avoid * List potential vendors and contact information by tool category The companion Web site contains design forms, checklists of features to look for in the various tool categories, spreadsheets, and lists of specific tools and vendors.
Download or read book Second Language Conversations written by Rod Gardner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This collection is the first to consistently adopt Conversation Analysis as an approach to second language interaction. By examining first and second language speakers' participation in a wide range of activities, it challenges the dominant view of 'non-native speakers' as deficient communicators. Proposing instead to understand second language users' conversational participation as interactional achievement, the book makes a powerful case for 'ethnomethodological re-specification' in second language research.' Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i In this book second language conversation is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from controlled contexts such as the classroom towards more sociable environments in which people go about their daily routines. English, German, French, Japanese, Finnish and Danish are all analyzed as second languages within a variety of professional, educational and sociable situations. Ways of 'Doing Being Plurilingual' in International Work Meetings • Brokering and Membership in a Multilingual Community of Practice • Clients or Language Learners - Being a Non-Native Speaker in Institutional Interaction • Embedded Corrections in Second Language Talk • Doing Pronunciation: A Specific Type of Repair Sequence • Some Preliminary Thoughts on Delay as an Interactional Resource • The Logic of Clarification. Some Observations about Word-Clarification Repairs in Finnish-as-a-Lingua Franca Interactions • Pursuit of Understanding: Rethinking 'Negotiation of Meaning' in View of Projected Action • Inside First and Second Language Speaker's Trouble in Understanding • Restarts in Novice Turn-Beginnings: Dysfluencies or Interactional Achievements • Talk and Gesture: The Embodied Completion of Sequential Actions in Spoken Interaction • On Delaying the Answer: Question Sequences Extended after the Question.
Download or read book English World wide written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relevance Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics written by Ewa Wałaszewska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further research within this rapidly developing field.
Download or read book Metarepresentations written by Dan Sperber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. It collects studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors.
Download or read book Process written by Sam Featherston and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 1: Process reveal why the data-driven approach makes for a research environment which is fast-moving and democratic: technological change has made the sources of linguistic data readily accessible. These contributions show the methods both professional and student linguists are using to gather more evidence more easily than before.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes written by Markku Filppula and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on some features shared by 'Old' and 'New' varieties of English. 'Old' refers here to varieties of English spoken in Britain only, i.e. English English (EngE) and/or British English (BrE). They represent the longest-established varieties of English and are part of the hardcore of the L1 or the 'Inner Circle' of Englishes. 'New' varieties, in this context, are ones that have arisen in colonial or postcolonial contexts (the 'Outer Circle') and also comprise historically L2 varieties, such as Irish English, that have evolved as a result of language shift. This chapter examines three syntactic features that show similar developments in both New and Old varieties: the use of some modal auxiliaries, especially WILL/SHALL, some 'extended' uses of the progressive, and finally, combinations of these two, especially WILL/SHALL + be V-ing. All three display convergent developments that suggest a leading role for the New Englishes rather than the Old varieties"--
Download or read book Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2 written by Vera Regan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents six new studies on identity construction in the speech of older adolescents and young adults learning French. It takes a sociolinguistic approach to acquisition. First language sociolinguistic research has shown that identity construction is particularly intense during adolescence and young adulthood, and language use has been found to be an especially key resource in this dynamic construction. The contributors examine the language practices of L2, L3 and L4 speakers in multilingual and multicultural societies in Ireland, Canada, Belgium and France in order to demonstrate their use in identity construction. Several contexts of language acquisition for multilingual speakers are examined and compared, including formal and naturalistic settings for acquisition and learning. The book also investigates the speech of learners at upper-intermediate and advanced stages of acquisition of French to provide a holistic view of the way individuals use the language resources available to them to stake a claim to a new multilingual identity in their target language networks. The papers in this book combine qualitative and quantitative data on French speech and the context in which it occurs to provide detailed pictures of the co-construction of identity and complex speech patterns by multilingual speakers of French.
Download or read book The Advanced Learner Variety written by Emmanuelle Labeau and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume originates from a workshop entitled 'Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning' organized by the editors at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in June 2006. It consists of a peer-reviewed selection of the best contributions. Many different approaches have been used in the study of advanced learners and their characteristics. Specific areas of language have repeatedly been found to remain problematic even at advanced levels, and much empirical research has been carried out. In particular, areas of grammar such as the tense or agreement systems often pose difficulties, as well as lexical idiosyncrasies such as formulaic sequences, and the discourse/pragmatic constraints operating in French. This volume brings together recent research exploring the advanced learner capabilities in each of those domains, as well as possible explanations for the difficulties they raise for the L2 learner of French. Additionally, one of the areas which has received considerable attention in the French L2 literature on advanced learners, tense and aspect, is also explored from the point of view of French learners of English, to explore any parallels. In presenting this research, the book clarifies the concept of the advanced learner: how does s/he differ from native speakers and why?
Download or read book An Introduction to Vygotsky written by Harry Daniels and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Vygotsky, Second Edition provides students with an accessible overview of his work, combining reprints of key journal and text articles with editorial commentary and helpful suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics written by Anne Barron and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state-of-the-art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory chapter on interdisciplinarity by Jacob L. Mey. A further thirty-eight chapters cover both traditional and newer areas of pragmatic research, divided into four sections: Methods and modalities Established fields Pragmatics across disciplines Applications of pragmatic research in today’s world. With accessible, refreshing descriptions and discussions, and with a look towards future directions, this Handbook is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in pragmatics within English language and linguistics and communication studies.
