Model B-17F and G bombardment airplanes are four-engine-midwing monoplanes. The approximate over all dimensions are: 74 feet 9 inches; heifht, taxying position, 19 feet 1 inch; span, 103 feet 9 inches...
We've written this book for busy people! We know that if you're a busy trainer, you probably won't have much time (or appetite) for the sort of book which offers profound and deep theories of how people learn at training sessions, or complex pedagogical models of how we should try to structure our training. In this book we've tried to offer down-to-earth, practical suggestions.
Language in Action presents a critical examination of four models of conversation: the Code model based on Chomsky’s linguistic views; the Speech Act model of Austin and Searle; the Inferential model of Grice and the Conversation Analytic model of Sacks and Schegloff. It also considers the Brown and Levinson model of politeness in conversation. Using many examples from natural talk and drawing on the positive aspects of the reviewed models, Turnbull proposes a new Social Pragmatic model of conversation as social interaction.
Mankiw's Macroeconomics is popular, widely adopted and well-known for clearly communicating the principles of Macroeconomics in a concise and accessible way. The fifth edition maintains those core features that have made it the best-selling Macroeconomics text in Europe, i.e. a balance of coverage between short- and long-run issues, an integration of Keynesian and classical ideas, a variety of simple models and the incorporation of real world issues and data through case studies and FYI boxes. An outstanding package of support materials, includes the student web-support site 'Macrobytes'.
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a ‘generalized analysis of selection’, whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. invisible hand-processes, system-internal models, functional and cognitive models. Most papers do not subscribe to the evolutionary model; instead, they focus on functional factors in the selection and propagation of variants (as opposed to factors of code efficiency), or on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives.
