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Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion and a positive attitude to the job every day. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager has the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Seattle's Pike Place Fish is a world famous market that is wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling, joyful atmosphere and great customer service. By applying ingeniously simple lessons learned from the Pike Place, our ma...

World Link is National Geographic Learning's best-selling core series for young adult/adult learners of English from the false beginner to high intermediate level. The second edition has been completely updated and enhanced to reflect modern teaching methods and user feedback. Combining dynamic vocabulary with essential grammar and universal topics, World Link, Second Edition, helps learners to communicate confidently and fluently.

Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vern...

Les dix-sept regards sur les " spectateurs " reunis dans le present volume s'inscrivent dans un projet de recherche de longue haleine sur l'essai periodique en Europe. Le recueil prolonge la publication de plusieurs volumes dans notre collection sur les " Lumieres " et la mise en place d'une base de donnees, tous consacres aux " spectateurs " de langues romanes. A la difference de ces derniers, il envisage cependant non seulement les " spectateurs " francais, italiens ou espagnols mais aussi des...

This best-selling text will show you the basic concepts and techniques you need to successfully communicate in today's business world, regardless of your current level of business experience. Covering every aspect of the communication process, COMMUNICATING FOR RESULTS will give you a competitive edge in any business situation-from the initial interview to making skilled presentations (complete with professional visual aids) to assuming a leadership role. In addition, you'll find online video cl...

On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form. Available, but not accessible. The lexicon provides the major key for enabling accessibility to on-line text. The expert contributors to this book explore the range of possibilities for the generation of extensive lexicons. In so doing, they investigate the use of existing on-line dictionaries and thesauri, and explain how lexicons can be acquired from the corpus -- the...

Rather than offering variations in "world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is processed. Distinctive perceptual, memory, and neurolinguistic aspects of the Chinese language are discussed, as is the cognitive style of the Chinese people. Chinese orthography and other features of morphology and syntax are examined in relation to both bottom-up and top-down cognitive processes. While providing a...

By the end of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the cent...

Diese Arbeit analysiert den Einfluss von verschiedenen Faktoren auf die Grussformelwahl der Deutschen und der Russen und ermittelt via Fragebogenerhebung und mithilfe von kontrastiv-pragmatischen und deskriptiv-inferenzstatistischen Methoden - t-Test und Binomialtest - die kritischen Situationen mit einem hohen interkulturellen Konfliktpotential. Die Faktoren Distanz und Hierarchie scheinen den groessten Einfluss auf das deutsche und russische Grussverhalten zu haben. Situationen mit einem konve...

This special issue is a compilation of essays -- expanded from papers given at the International Conference on Narrative held at Vanderbilt University -- illustrating the rich possibilities of contemporary narrative study. These essays collectively share the conviction that reading narratives is a dynamic rather than static experience, one in which meaning becomes created in the interaction of language and silence, reader and text, in a constant series of negotiations. In this sense, the creatio...

Express Fluency from Teach Yourself gives you a focused, quick and effective language lesson. Start to speak Finnish through this bite-sized conversation and role-play exercise. -Listen and repeat key vocabulary -Hear the words and phrases in an authentic dialogue-Answer comprehension questions-Practice a role-play This advanced beginner level lesson is a simple step-by-step guide ideal for learning on the go. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

Der Band enthalt ausgewahlte Arbeiten von Andrzej Z. Bzdega, die ein breites Themenspektrum der Linguistik abdecken, dazu gehoeren Aufsatze zur Theorie in der Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, zur Phonologie, Syntax, Wortbildung und Lexikologie. Thematisiert werden unter anderem Fragen nach einem Fortschritt in der Sprachwissenschaft, nach einer Formalisierung in der Grammatik und nach UEbersetzungsprozessen. Im syntaktischen Teil des Buches werden Nominalphrase, Satzspaltung, Infinitivkon...

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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First published in 1977, Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies reports on the results of a grammatical analysis of the speech of a large sample (about 300) of five-year-old middle- and working-class children. The author is concerned in particular to answer the questions: What is the relationship, within certain restricted contexts, between the use of particular grammatical structures and factors such as social class, IQ and sex? How are any differences in the type or frequency of...