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Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality Meets Appropriateness
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Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality Meets AppropriatenessProduct Description In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit. This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic context, social context and sociocultural context and their underlying principles of well-formedness, grammaticality, acceptability and appropriateness.
 
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Gender, Language and Culture A Study of Japanese Television Interview Discourse
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Gender, Language and Culture A Study of Japanese Television Interview DiscourseThis book analyzes the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews. It covers a wide range of topics on Japanese communication; cultural and gender variables are interwoven in the interpretation of the findings. The study shows how participants interact through language and how they project their identities in the context of the interview. Based on a qualitative analysis, speech in mixed and same gender interactions is analysed, turntaking, terms of address and aizuchi (listener’s responses) are examined.
 
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A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation: German-English-German
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A Basis for Scientific and Engineering Translation: German-English-German

This e-book and the accompanying handbook attack many of the most crucial difficulties encountered by both native and non-native English speakers when translating scientific and engineering material from German.

 
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Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to Modern
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Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to ModernCovering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to discourse has so far received little attention. To fill that gap, this volume offers studies of medieval instructional and religious texts and correspondence from the early modern period.
 
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Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. Соколова М. А. / English Phonetics: A theoretical course
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Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. Соколова М. А. / English Phonetics: A theoretical courseТеоретическая фонетика английского языка. Соколова М. А. / English Phonetics: A theoretical course

В учебнике описана английская фонетическая система. Он со­стоит из шести глав, включает раздел фоностилистики, схемы и таблицы. В учебнике учитываются достижения современных тео­ретических исследований.

Учебник предназначен для студентов, изучающих английский язык в высших учебных заведениях; будет полезен преподавате­лям английского языка.

Язык - английский

English phonology, syllabic system, accent, intonation, standard pronounciation and regional variations.

Written n English

 
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