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Representations of transnational human trafficking : present-day news media, …
This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and…
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- 9783319782140
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- 401.41 REP r
The evolution of grounded spatial language
This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing the interplay of environmental conditions, communicative and cognitive pressures. The experiments discussed in this book go far beyond previous …
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- 9783946234142
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- X, 267 p.
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- 402.85 SPR e
Atypical language development in romance languages
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book covers four main conditions causing atypical language development. Part I explores the linguistic a…
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- 9789027203212
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- 263 p.; 22 cm.
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- 428 ATY a
Stylistic use of phraseological units in discourse
This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in phraseology. The author elaborates key terminology and theoretical concepts of phraseology, while challenging some prevailing assumptions. Exploration of phraseological meaning across sentence boundaries is supported by ample textual illustrations of stylistic use ranging from Old English to Mode…
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- 9789027211767
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- xiii, 306 p.; 22 cm.
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- 401.43 NAC s
Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios
The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in gr…
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- 9783946234999
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- 342 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics; 16
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- 415.09 UNI u
Languages of science in thee eighteenth century
The eighteenth century is an important period both in the history of science and in the history of languages. In this volume, seventeen authors explore, from a variety of angles, the construction of a scientific language and discourse. The chapters explore the forming of scientific communities, the emergence of new languages of science, the spread of scientific ideas, and the development of sci…
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- 9783110255058
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- 365 p.; 22 cm.
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- 415.09 LAN l
On looking into words (and beyond): structures, relations, analyses
"On Looking into Words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word structure and morphology, with a focus on historical linguistics and linguistic theory. The papers are offered as a tribute to Stephen R. Anderson, the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale, who is retiring at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. The contributors are friends, colleagues, and for…
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- 9783946234920
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- 609 p.; 22 cm.
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- 409 LOO l
Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: widening the scope of socia…
An important amount of research effort in psychology and neuroscience over the past decades has focused on the problem of social cognition. This problem is understood as how we figure out other minds, relying only on indirect manifestations of other people's intentional states, which are assumed to be hidden, private and internal. Research on this question has mostly investigated how individual…
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- 9782889195299
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- 413 p.; 22 cm.
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- 824.18 PAO t
Language technologies for a multilingual Europe : TC3 III
This volume of the series “Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing” includes most of the papers presented at the Workshop “Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe”, held at the University of Hamburg on September 27, 2011 in the framework of the conference GSCL 2011 with the topic “Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications”, along with several additi…
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- 9783946234739
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- III, 208 p.
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- 418.020285635 LAN l
The Adaptive value of languages: non-linguistic causes of language diversity
The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, …
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- 9782889456314
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- 179 p.; 23 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 306.44 BEN a
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