The publication of this book has presented an opportunity to study the exchange of ideas that took place in Viking Age Ireland in greater depth. Particular emphasis has been laid on the influences and resultant changes brought about by the meeting of the two cultures.
Textbook surgical education usually follows a predictable format involving fairly in-depth descriptions of various pathologic conditions including etiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnostic procedures, conservative management, and surgical treatment. Although there is variation in the emphasis different books place on each of these areas, the reader is obliged to absorb a plethora of information and add it to his or her knowledge base by rote retention...
Description This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversational analytic (CA) approach to understanding language use. The book places a special emphasis on what the methods and findings of CA can offer to discourse-functional linguistics.
The articles collected in this volume provide an overview of the status of derivational theory within one of the most popular frameworks in present-day phonology, Optimality Theory. According to Anderson (1985), the history of phonology in the twentieth century can be seen as a sequence of periods in which the emphasis is on the structure of phonological representations, alternating with periods in which the emphasis is on phonological derivations.
Textual Patterns joins a collection of other corpus-linguistics books as the 22nd volume in the series Studies in Corpus Linguistics. What distinguishes this publication from others is a well balanced emphasis on corpus-based theories, its "how-to" approaches, and its constant emphasis on the implications of corpus-based analyses. This distinction makes the book another good resource on introductory corpus-linguistics for language teachers, researchers, and learners.
