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Children's explanations. A psycholinguistic study
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Children's explanations. A psycholinguistic studyChildren's explanations. A psycholinguistic study

How and when does the ability to give and understand explanations develop? Morag Donaldson directly addresses this question in the present study, providing evidence from a series of imaginative experiments she carried out with 3- to 10-year-olds. In contrast to many earlier accounts, she demonstrates that children can distinguish between cause and effect and among physical, psychological and logical relations well before the age of 7. 


 
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Reading Sounder (The Engaged Reader)
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Reading Sounder (The Engaged Reader)Reading Sounder (The Engaged Reader)

This series takes young readers to the first step in literary criticism, drawing their attention to pre-reading contexts with the understanding that readers create assumptions before even opening the book.
 
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Emotions across Languages and Cultures by Anna Wierzbicka
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Emotions across Languages and Cultures by Anna WierzbickaEmotions across Languages and Cultures by Anna Wierzbicka

In this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations.
 
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Biography of the English Language
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Biography of the English LanguageBiography of the English Language

The second edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.
 
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The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies
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The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation StudiesThe Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies

This book is intended as a guide for student who are required to undertake research in Translation Studies and present it in written and/or oral form. It is not an introduction to Translation Studies as such; we assume that readers already have a basic familiarity with the field. The Map aims to provide a step-by-step introduction to doing research in an area which, because of its interdisciplinary nature, can present the inexperienced researcher with a bewildering array of topics and methodologie.
 
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