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Edward Elgar Teaching Macroeconomics A Modern and Inclusive
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Edward Elgar Publishing European Gas Markets in Transition
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Project 2016 For Dummies
Book SynopsisThe easy way to take control of project timelines, resources, budgets, and details Project manager, meet your new assistant! Once you discover Project 2016 you'll be amazed at how efficient and effective the project management process can be.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Project 2016 5 Chapter 1: Project Management, Project 2016, and You 7 Chapter 2: Starting the Project 19 Chapter 3: Becoming a Task Master 39 Chapter 4: The Codependent Nature of Tasks 53 Chapter 5: Estimating Task Time 65 Chapter 6: Check Out This View! 81 Part II: Managing Resources 101 Chapter 7: Creating Resources 103 Chapter 8: Working with Calendars 119 Chapter 9: Assigning Resources 133 Chapter 10: Determining a Project’s Cost 145 Part III: Before You Baseline 155 Chapter 11: Fine‐Tuning Your Plan 157 Chapter 12: Negotiating Project Constraints 171 Chapter 13: Making the Project Look Good 185 Chapter 14: It All Begins with a Baseline 201 Part IV: Staying on Track 211 Chapter 15: On the Right Track 213 Chapter 16: Project Views: Observing Progress 237 Chapter 17: You’re Behind — Now What? 251 Chapter 18: Spreading the News: Reporting 267 Chapter 19: Getting Better All the Time 289 Part V: The Part of Tens 299 Chapter 20: Ten Golden Rules of Project Management 301 Chapter 21: Ten Cool Shortcuts in Project 2016 309 Appendix: Glossary 315 Index 325
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John Wiley & Sons Inc MCA Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator Study Guide
Book SynopsisThis Study Guide helps you understand the job role and responsibilities of a Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator. It's your one-stop resource for learning new skills, preparing to take the exam, and boosting your career! Cloud technology has become a major component of how services are delivered to customers. It's creating new roles and expanding others in all areas of technology. The Microsoft 365 Certified Associate Teams Administrator certification shows you're keeping pace with today's technology. MCA Microsoft 365 Certified Teams Administrator Study Guide is your best resource for understanding the job roles and responsibilities of a Teams Administrator and preparing to take the certification Exam MS-700. Microsoft 365 Teams Administrators focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in an enterprise environment. This Study Guide can help you understand best practices for configuring, deploying, and managing Office 365 workloads for Microsoft Teams that focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in an enterprise environment. Test your knowledge of all key exam objectives, including planning, deploying, and managing Teams chat, apps, channels, meetings, audio conferencing, live events, and calling. This Sybex Study Guide also covers upgrading from Skype for Business to Teams, managing Teams settings by using PowerShell, and understanding integration points with other apps and services. Review everything you need to know to pass the Exam MS-700 and you're your Microsoft 365 Certified Associate Teams Administrator certificationUse Sybex's exclusive online test bank to improve your ability to plan and configure a Microsoft Teams EnvironmentMaster the process of managing Chat, Calling, and Meetings within Microsoft TeamsBecome an expert at configuring Teams and App Policies, including integrating third-party apps and services Readers will also have access to Sybex's online test bank, including hundreds of practice questions, flashcards, and a glossary. Take your career to a new level with this Study Guide!Table of ContentsIntroduction xxi Assessment Test xxix Answers to Assessment Test xxxviii Chapter 1 Introducing Teams 1 Using Teams: The Basics 3 Accessing Teams 9 O365 E3 Trial 10 Customer Immersion Experience 10 Fully Paid E3 10 Using Teams as Part of O365 10 Home User Plans 12 Small/Medium Business Plans 12 Enterprise Plans 13 Managing Teams 15 Management Tools 15 Policy Management 24 Summary 26 Exam Essentials 27 Exercises 28 Review Questions 30 Chapter 2 Getting Teams Up and Running 33 Migrating from Skype for Business 34 Coexistence Modes 36 Interoperability 42 Coexistence Modes and Migration/Upgrade Paths 46 Meeting Migration Service 48 Managing Skype for Business to Teams Migrations 51 Preparing Your Network for Teams 57 Internet Breakout 58 Networking Best Practices 59 Network Quality 64 Network Capacity 73 Deploying Clients Required for Teams 84 Clients 84 Devices 88 Summary 99 Exam Essentials 99 Review Questions 106 Chapter 3 Teams Core Functionality 111 Creating Teams 112 Teams Memberships 114 Types of Teams and Discoverability 116 Making a Team from Scratch 118 Upgrading an Existing Resource to a Team 127 Org-Wide Teams 134 Managing Features Inside Teams 139 Messaging Policies 139 Managing Channels 148 Managing Settings in a Team 152 Manage Settings for Teams 156 Managing Guests and External Access 162 External Access vs. Guest Access 162 Managing External Access 165 Managing Access for Guest Users 166 Reviewing Guest Access 173 Meetings with Teams 173 Teams Meetings 174 Teams Live Events 188 Summary 196 Exam Essentials 197 Exercises 199 Review Questions 207 Chapter 4 Advanced Teams Functionality and Management 213 Admin and User Management 214 Teams Admin Roles 215 Manual Team Membership 223 Dynamic Membership 225 Access Reviews 231 Lifecycle and Governance 236 Team Templates 236 Group Creation Policies 242 M365 Group Naming Policy 247 M365 Group Expiration 252 Archiving, Deleting, and Restoring Teams 255 Data Security and Compliance 260 Sensitivity Labels 260 Retention Policies 267 Data Loss Prevention Policies 272 Segmentation and Information Barriers 279 eDiscovery 286 Security and Compliance Alerts 297 Teams Apps 302 App Policies 304 Using Custom Apps 311 Summary 315 Exam Essentials 316 Review Questions 326 Chapter 5 Adding Telephony 331 Phone System Overview 333 Delivery Method 333 Licensing 336 Number Types 339 Device Types 339 Emergency Calling 341 Phone System Delivery 351 Calling Plans 351 Direct Routing 365 Controlling Phone System Features 380 Calling Features 380 Calling Workflows/Voice Apps 389 Summary 407 Exam Essentials 408 Exercises 410 Review Questions 417 Chapter 6 Review Usage and Maintain Quality 421 Adoption and Deployment Approach 422 Deployment Planning 423 User Adoption 425 Monitoring Collaboration 427 Teams Usage Reports 428 Microsoft 365 Usage Reports 433 Monitoring Telephony 434 Call Analytics 437 Call Quality Dashboard 441 Summary 451 Exam Essentials 452 Exercises 453 Review Questions 456 Appendix Answers to Review Questions 459 Chapter 1: Introducing Teams 460 Chapter 2: Getting Teams Up and Running 460 Chapter 3: Teams Core Functionality 463 Chapter 4: Advanced Teams Functionality and Management 465 Chapter 5: Adding Telephony 467 Chapter 6: Review Usage and Maintain Quality 470 Index 471
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NewSouth Publishing The Story of Australian English
Book SynopsisThe English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.
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Society Publishing Trends in Second Language Acquisition
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Society Publishing Language and Comprehension
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Arcler Education Inc Functional Approaches to Language: A
Book SynopsisThe functional approach examines how language allows us to perform various tasks such as: to share information, enquire, express attitudes, engage, contend, have our needs met, reflect, develop ideas, synchronize our experiences and understand the world. It is about how real people use language for real phenomenal. A functional model of language places more emphasis on meaning, including the role that language plays in creating meaning. According to this volume, a functional method to language does not focus on a number of rules that tell learners what is and is not acceptable usage, but rather on de-contextualized activities. Instead, real-world tasks are used to develop language comprehension across all curriculum sectors. A practical language model can be derived at whatever point learners are engaged in the development of texts and valuable opportunities are made for direct deliberation of these texts. These opportunities may arise, for instance, during a discussion session, or a collective book activity. They may also occur on their own or alongside other events, affecting individuals, a small group, or the entire class.Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Roots of Functionalism Linguistics Chapter 2 Structure and Function of Language Chapter 3 Functional Theories of Grammar Chapter 4 Learning Cycle of Language Chapter 5 Thought-Based Linguistics Chapter 6 Changing Language Chapter 7 Experimental Functional Linguistics Chapter 8 Linguistic Constraints in Choice Chapter 9 Applications of Systematic Functional Linguistics in Translation Around the World Chapter 10 Language Disorder and Functional Interventions
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Arcler Education Inc Introducing English Language: A Resource Book for
Book SynopsisIntroducing the English Language: is the foundational book in the Routledge English Language Introductions series and offers a grounding to all the titles featured in the series, gives comprehensive coverage of the essential aspects of the English language, as well as providing an introduction to key disciplines of linguistics such as historical, social and psycholinguistics, and also core areas in language study including acquisition, standardization and the globalization of English. The English language is a research assistant that helps researchers of varying statuses to more readily and confidently voice themselves while keeping to the principles of the genre of English research. It provides a wealth of classified, ready-to-use sentences and phrases frequently used in theses, dissertations, and other research works. It is a comprehensive source that offers insights into a host of issues pertaining to research writing, running the gamut from topic selection to final publication, to language use and matters of research conduction. This book aims to assist readers in improving their English speaking skills by using simple phrases and expressions Many students often believe that they will never be able to achieve fluency or mastery in English, but this resource book presents a solution to overcome this misconception. A significant number of students approach English studies primarily from an examination perspective, resulting in difficulties in constructing grammatically correct sentences. Moreover, many students lack sufficient opportunities for language practice. It serves as a vital gateway to success in various modern domains. This resource book consists of chapters that provide an overview of the English language, along with engaging activities, thought-provoking research questions, insightful commentaries, essential readings, and sample analyses. All these components are compiled within a single volume, offering students a comprehensive and cohesive learning experience.
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Edward Elgar Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science
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Edward Elgar Handbook of Experimental Development Economics
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Edward Elgar Handbook on the Financial Reporting Environment
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Edward Elgar A Companion to the European Electricity Market
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Edward Elgar Research Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens
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Edward Elgar Economic Development Economic Growth and Income Structuralist Perspectives on Latin America and Beyond
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Edward Elgar The New Role of the State for Transformative Inn An International Research Handbook
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook explores the multifaceted and evolving role of the state in driving innovation, with a view to addressing the grand societal challenges, including sustainability, social inclusivity and economic transformation.
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Edward Elgar Advanced Introduction to Taxation
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Edward Elgar Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition
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Liverpool University Press Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text
Book SynopsisThis book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive strategies that will transform modern advertising. The book shows how this fundamental development is closely related to contemporary developments in the visual arts – in particular Futurism and Art Deco – and reflects the increasing cross-fertilisation and symbiosis between art and graphic design. The book focuses in particular on the way conventional textual strategies – metaphor, metonymy, rebus – are adapted by the modern poster to produce visual or textual/visual equivalents which, through their employment of combined pictorial and linguistic elements maximise their attractive or persuasive power over the viewer/reader. A key aim of the book is to clarify the assumptions on which semiology (the study of signs) is based in the context of modern poster artists’ practice. The text/image relation is explored through five chapters focussing on (1) the rhetoric of image/text in general; (2) text and image in airline logos: British Airways and Air France; (3) visual metonymies in boxing posters; (4) text and image in posters expressing speed; (5) text/image in Swiss tourist posters. There are approximately 120 colour illustrations arranged in groups that reflect the different orientations of the chapters.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Rhetoric of Image-Text: Word and Image in Early Modern Poster Design 2. Visual Metaphors: Airline Logos—Air France’s Hippocampe and BOAC’s Speedbird 3. Visual Metonymies: Boxing Posters 4. The Poetics of the Rebus: Representing Speed 5. Mountain as Icon: Swiss Tourist Posters 1900–48 Conclusion: Image without Text Select Bibliography Index of Proper Names
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Wits University Press African-Language Literatures: Perspectives on
Book SynopsisAfrican-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral and the modern worlds. Existing modes of criticism in the study of this literary tradition are often unsuited for a nuanced understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic aspects at play in the composition, production and reading of these literatures.In African-Language Literatures, Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi charts new directions in the study of African-language literatures generally, and isiZulu fiction in particular. She proposes that African popular arts and culture models be considered as a solution to the debates and challenges informing discourses about expressive forms in African languages. Mhlambi shows how this approach brings into relationship the oral and written forms, the local and the international, and elitist and popular genres, and she places the resultant emerging, eclectic culture into its socio-historical context. She then uses this theoretical approach to explore – in a wide range of cultural products – what matters or what is of interest to the people, irrespective of social hierarchies and predispositions.It is the author’s contention that, contrary to common perception, the African-language literary tradition displays diversity, complexity and fluidity, and that this should be seen as an invitation to look at systems of meaning which do not hide their connections with the facts of power and material life.
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Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
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Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
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J.B. Metzler In die falsche Richtung
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The Chinese University Press Wandering Mind and Metaphysical Thoughts
Book SynopsisThe present English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances his innovative experiments in poetry across cultural boundaries.
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Dovetale Press A Dovetale Press Adaptation of The Garden Party The Dolls House by Katherine Mansfield 2 Dovetale Press Books
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Reminisce Reader Ltd, Trading as Dovetale Pre A Dovetale Press Adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 1 Dovetale Press DementiaFriendly
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Astiberri Ediciones Con dos huevos
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A TwentiethCentury Literature Reader Texts and Debates TwentiethCentury Literature Texts and Debates
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Cambridge University Press Language and Human Relations Styles of Address in Contemporary Language
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Cambridge University Press A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Book SynopsisResearch on African languages has been preoccupied with understanding similarities across the four distinct language families. This book discusses whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, and demonstrates that such similarities are more common than is widely believed.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… it is a data-driven volume written by experienced Africanists with expertise spanning the continent. … the volume as a whole has the potential to encourage linguists working with apparent genetic units in Africa to consider how areal features contribute to our conceptualisation of 'relatedness' and to re-assess the importance of genetic units in accounting for similarities across languages within a particular geographical area where contact is attested or historically likely.' Journal of LinguisticsTable of Contents1. Introduction Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse; 2. Is Africa a linguistic area? Bernd Heine and Zelealem Leyew; 3. Africa as a phonological area Nick Clements and Annie Rialland; 4. Africa as a morphosyntactic area Denis Creissels, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Christa König; 5. The Macro-Sudan belt Tom Güldemann; 6. The Tanzanian Rift Valley area Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous and Derek Nurse; 7. Ethiopia Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer; 8. The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa Christa König; 9. Africa's verb-final languages Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
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Cambridge University Press You Know what I Mean Words Contexts and Communication
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Cambridge University Press Eye for an Eye
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Cambridge University Press Why Do Languages Change
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Cambridge University Press Eye for an Eye
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Cambridge University Press Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Language and Human Relations
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Cambridge University Press Social Variation and the Latin Language
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Organizational Styling
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling, looking at the language and semiotic resources used by holiday resorts, pharmaceutical companies, restaurants and insurance companies in order to project their identities, and style themselves.Trade Review'By juxtaposing the styling of persons and organizations, this important book elegantly demonstrates how we are shaped by corporate actors as they shape themselves and organizational others through their discursive force. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars in sociolinguistics, management and organization studies, and the field of communication.' Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Université de Montréal'Full of fascinating case studies and new theoretical insights, and brilliantly written, Lionel Wee's book explains how organisations large and small build and exploit corporate images and engage in style wars. The Language of Organizational Styling breaks important new ground for sociolinguistics.' Nikolas Coupland, University of Copenhagen and University of Technology Sydney'… a fascinating read for anyone interested in the process of how businesses promote themselves through specific language choices. Language has power, and this book explores the power behind linguistic choices.' S. E. Vie, Choice'In sociolinguistics, and more particularly in social semiotics, Lionel Wee has attempted to break new ground … Wee's perspective that the styling of organizations is fundamentally different from (yet related to) that of individuals emerges as a particularly salient theme.' Sebastian Muth, Journal of SociolinguisticsTable of Contents1. Introduction: the organization as a corporate actor; 2. Styling: from persons to organizations; 3. Enterprise culture as a master ethical regime; 4. Size matters: the semiotics of big versus small businesses; 5. When Peter meets Harry: the emotional labor of organizations; 6. Organizational restyling; 7. Styling the organizational other; 8. Organizations and speakers: structure and agency in language.
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Cambridge University Press Working with English Grammar
Book SynopsisThis clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word structure, major and minor word classes, phrases, clauses and sentences. Based on twenty years'' teaching practice, Louise Cummings adopts a unique approach of using three real-world contexts - first language acquisition, language disorders and non-standard dialects - as a pedagogical tool to make grammatical concepts meaningful to students and to improve engagement and understanding. In seven accessible chapters, students are encouraged to develop the analytical skills they require to give a comprehensive description of the grammar of the English language. A range of supportive learning aids is used, including: Learning objectives and section ''key points'' summaries Varied examples from world Englishes and print media Homework assignments, exercises and revision questions Targeted further reading suggestions and ''special topics'' boxTrade Review'… innovative and unique, and a delight to use in the classroom.' Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield'At last, an introduction to English grammar which presents the real thing! Packed with carefully chosen examples of the grammatical features of real Englishes - local and global, developing and stable, impaired and unimpaired - this book engages students through discovery and sustained practice. Louise Cummings' direct and compelling exposition, presenting Standard English as a frame of reference rather than the 'source code', will inspire students to approach grammar as a living system, relevant to their own experiences.' Christopher J. Hall, York St John University'… a wonderful resource for those whose focus is the understanding of and the use of English grammar …' Owen G. Mordaunt, International DialogueTable of ContentsList of figures and tables; List of exercises; List of special topics; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The study of grammar; 2. Word structure; 3. Major word classes; 4. Minor word classes; 5. Phrases; 6. Clauses; 7. Sentences; Answers; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Thinking Critically Second Edition
Book SynopsisLike its predecessor, Thinking Critically helps students improve reading, writing, and research skills while exploring and analysing major global issues. Although many of the same topics are explored in this second edition all 31 readings in the second edition are new. New topics included in this edition are cybersecurity, climate change, education reform, leadership, and human rights.
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Wesleyan University Press Solkattu Manual
Book SynopsisThe first hands-on introduction to South Indian spoken rhythm
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Undena Publications,U.S. Verb Complements and Relative Clauses in Biblical
Book SynopsisThis is a study of a diachronic development in Biblical Hebrew, a development by which the relative subordinating particle becomes also a verb-complement subordinator
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American Oriental Society The Theology of Meaning abd AlQahir AlJurjanis
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Georgetown University Press The Arabic Language Today Georgetown Classics in
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