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Two complementary case studies are presented. First, a cross-varietal study indicates that high-contact varieties of English exhibit a higher attestation rate of pronoun omission than low-contact varieties. Second, a corpus-based study demonstrates that pronouns are commonly omitted in contexts in which their antecedents can be easily identified.

The advent of digital media has changed political communication. Populist movements are adept at using the affordances of new media.Digital media also make it easier than ever for the public to respond to politicians, or to launch their own initiatives.These changes are analysed across countries as diverse as Venezuela, USA, Pakistan and Romania.

Corrective feedback in traditional and technology-enhanced environments continues to be a controversial topic in the field of SLA. Through a discussion of theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical issues, this book contributes to the debate on the role of corrective feedback in second language development, with a focus on CALL environments.

The book is composed of 27 biographical-academic essays written by prominent women scholars who have devoted much of their professional lives to writing about Jewish women's experiences during the Holocaust.

This is the story of Shirley Rosalyn Kraus Tydor, the American-born daughter of early 20th-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. "For the Love of Shirley" provides readers with an intimate glimpse into one Jewish woman's challenges and choices in postwar Jewish America.

This volume explores knowledge dissemination practices according to two main orientations; first, with respect to the target audience, especially scholars vs. novices. Second in relation to the channels, especially multimodal and web-based platforms, and changing strategies such as popularization resources.

The present book is a complex approach to the elements that built the history of Catalonia. This collective book analyze differents aspects, such as: cultural history, the History of Law, the Political history or the History of the State, from the Midlle Ages to the Modern and Contemporary history.

Yan Duyvendak ist ein Grenzganger: zwischen den Sparten und zwischen den Genres. Zwischen bildender Kunst, Performance, Theater und sozialer Interaktion. Ein "Spieler des Realen", den der vorliegende Band mit kritischen Analysen und Berichten von Weggefahrten wurdigt.

The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, and shows how punctuation conventions change in time.

These essays explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of 'negrura-oscuridad' in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile staging of atrocities and the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic.

This book sheds new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its interdisciplinary perspective, the authors explore the domains of literary, pictorial, filmic, televisual and popular cultural texts in English from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The book investigates conflict discourse in an interdisciplinary way, bringing together linguistics and periodical studies and highlighting the connection between language and ideology. It focuses on lexical choices and rhetorical devices used to tackle controversial issues.

This book discusses an important theme in art history - artistic emulation that emphasizes the exchange between Flemish and Dutch art in the seventeenth century.

La complexite des enjeux lies aux langues specialisees professionnelles s'inscrit au cA ur de l'activite des linguistes intervenant dans le secteur des langues pour specialistes d'autres disciplines. Cet ouvrage, concu comme un guide du chercheur en linguistique appliquee, examine les concepts fondamentaux de la discipline et propose des methodes visant a affiner la connaissance des langues et des cultures specialisees professionnelles en contexte. Traitant des questions de domaine, d'identite et de communaute professionnels, il developpe une analyse critique des outils permettant de caracteriser les langues specialisees professionnelles, en insistant sur la place du terrain et de l'ethnographie. Il propose un cadre et des elements de reference sur les questions de terminologie et de constitution de corpus pour la description des discours specialises professionnels en synchronie et en diachronie.

In this edited book, several leading scholars address a number of security-related issues, all connected to one main research question: What (in)security means from the perspective of people living in the Middle East and North Africa?