Persian Texts in Transcription and Translation
ISBN: 9781604976526
There is no similar published work in English on this particular Persian dialect and its oral literature. Based on academically informed fieldwork and presented in a scientific fashion, this study provides information previously unavailable and is thus valuable to the academic discourse in Iranian linguistics. The book helpfully provides a grammatical introduction to the Herati dialect, a glossary of dialectal and common words, as well as approximately 500 explanatory notes.
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ISBN: 9781604976571
This book is a timely study into the nature of extended discourse and the problems that non-native speakers have in constructing this. It specifically focuses on discourse that is multi-propositional, that is, extended turns and monologues, and analyses this for breaks in coherence and comprehensibility brought about by miscues in semantic and pragmatic features at the discourse level. This book will be of interest to applied linguistics and English-language teaching practitioners around the world as well as academics involved in the testing of spoken English.
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A Neo-Structuralist Analysis
ISBN: 9781604976205
This work uses Claude Lévi-Strauss’ inspirational lecture as a launchpad for an exploration of a group of related medieval Welsh myths. This book is the first sustained attempt to follow his intuitive suggestions about several Mabinogion myths with a detailed Structuralist analysis of the Mabinogion. This most unique anthropological examination of the Mabinogion leads to a rethinking of some important aspects of Structuralism.
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The Discourse of Alcoholics Anonymous
ISBN: 9781604975529
The first book on AA discourse reveals truth of AA.
This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the spoken discourse of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), particularly within AA meetings. These meetings are generally not easily accessible to researchers, but they are AA’s central defining activity and provide the forum through which it operates. To understand what happens in AA meetings is to begin to understand AA.
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