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  • Tolkien as a Literary Artist

    Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings

    by Thomas Kullmann, Dirk Siepmann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien’s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Writing in English: A Guide for Advanced Learners

    by John D. Gallagher, Lachlan Mackenzie, Prof. Dr. Dirk Siepmann, Prof. Dr. Mike Hannay ...
    Das Werk bietet deutschsprachigen Studierenden und Wissenschaftler*innen, die wissenschaftliche Texte auf Englisch verfassen müssen, Unterstützung. Auch bei der Textrevision und im Englischunterricht für Fortgeschrittene leistet es Hilfestellung. Die Ausgabe wurde gründlich überarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert und enthält u.a. Hinweise zur Verwendung neuer Internet-Technologien. ... Read more

    $37.03 USD

  • German and English

    Academic Usage and Academic Translation

    by Dirk Siepmann ...
    German and English: Academic Usage and Academic Translation focuses on academic and popular scientific/academic usage.This book’s brief is both theoretical and practical: on the theoretical side, it aims to provide a systematic, corpus-based account of current academic usage in English and in German as well as of the translation problems associated with various academic genres; on the practical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Discourse Markers Across Languages

    A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography

    by Siepmann Dirk ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel

    A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives

    Edited by Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann ...
    This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the contributed chapters combine literary studies with corpus linguistics to analyse fantasy, romance, crime, historical and science fiction in ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Les émotions dans le discours / Emotions in Discourse

    Edited by Peter Blumenthal, Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann ...
    Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes perspectives sur cette réalité mouvante, explorée aussi par plusieurs disciplines appliquées (didactique, lexicographie, traitement automatique des langues) ? Le volume tente de répondre à ces questions en mettant en relief certaines innovations théoriques ... Read more

    $101.19 USD

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  • Oxford Modern English Grammar

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  • L'hypnose, comment ça marche ?

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  • Understanding English Grammar

    A Linguistic Introduction

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  • Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar 4th edition

    by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen ...
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    Literature Study Guide for AS/A-level French

    by Karine Harrington ...
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