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Breaking Light

By: Karin Altenberg

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Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories, of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he lost as a boy so long ago. Slowly the mysteries hidden in this small community on the edge of the moors begin to unravel. But one of Gabriel's memories remains sharper than all the others: that of his boyhood friend Michael, the tenderness of their first summers and the violent betrayal that destroyed it. And, intruding on his self-enforced isolation, the beautiful Mrs Sarobi, meddling Doris Ludgate, and the frightful specter of Jim of Blackaton will become bound in with Gabriel's search for acceptance and the possibility of love. In her striking, lyrical prose, Karin Altenberg imagines what it is to be incomplete. Set in this haunted landscape, a mesmerizing tale is told of the ways in which something once broken in two may, finally, be made whole.

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1681444577

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The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs

By: Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen,Karin Aijmer

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The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

A Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs

By: Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen,Karin Aijmer

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International Corpus of English - Great Britain, supplemented by data from other present-day English corpora, and questionnaires testing native speakers' intuitions on fine-grained similarities and differences between closely related adverbs. The methodology also includes the study of cross-linguistic equivalents as indicators of semantic-pragmatic relations between adverbs. Translation corpora yield correspondences in Swedish, Dutch, French and German. A detailed study of those correspondences adds useful information for setting up a semantic-pragmatic profile of each adverb, showing where their meanings overlap and where the boundaries are. The concept of semantic maps is relied on for plotting these relations. The book not only provides a thorough empirical study of English adverbs expressing certainty, it also contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the complexity of modal certainty, how it is related to speakers' goals and to other semantic areas. It is the first in-depth study of this kind, combining rich information on English as well as opening up perspectives for further empirical and theoretical research into modality.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110198924

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English Corpus Linguistics

By: Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg

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English Corpus Linguistics

By: Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.

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Routledge

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1317899245

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Conversational Routines in English

Convention and Creativity

By: Karin Aijmer

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Conversational Routines in English

Convention and Creativity

By: Karin Aijmer

It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be, they do have important functions in communication. This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

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Routledge

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1317896939

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English Discourse Particles

Evidence from a Corpus

By: Karin Aijmer

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English Discourse Particles

Evidence from a Corpus

By: Karin Aijmer

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture of the state of the art in discourse particle studies and introduces the theory and methodology for the analysis in the second part of the book. Discourse particles are analysed as elements which have been grammaticalised and as a result have certain properties and uses. The importance of linguistic and contextual cues such as text type, position in the discourse, prosody and collocation for analysing discourse particles is illustrated. The following chapters deal with specific discourse particles ("now," "oh, just, sort of, and that sort of thing, actually") on the basis of their empirical analysis in the London-Lund Corpus. Examples and extended extracts from many different text types are provided to illustrate what discourse particles are doing in discourse.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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1588112845

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English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation

Exposure and Skills Development

By: Karin Richter

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English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation

Exposure and Skills Development

By: Karin Richter

This book offers new insights into the language gains of adult learners enrolled in an English-medium instruction (EMI) degree programme. It provides longitudinal empirical evidence of the phonological gains of the learners; discusses which individual factors contribute to the changes in the learners’ pronunciation and investigates whether and to what extent increased exposure to the target language in EMI classrooms leads to incidental learning of second language pronunciation. Furthermore, it expands on the discussions surrounding the Critical Period Hypothesis, the native-speaker norm, foreign language accent and the role of English as a Lingua Franca. The comparative and longitudinal design of the research study fills a significant gap in the literature and the book offers considerable original and important research-informed insights into the fields of EMI, bilingual education and second language acquisition. As such, it is a valuable resource and must-read book for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in these areas.

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Multilingual Matters

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1788922476

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English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions

By: Karin McClellan

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English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions

By: Karin McClellan

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological, discourse-pragmatic, and sociolinguistic perspectives - this book provides a comprehensive overview of L2 prosodic features, highlighting patterns of intonational phrasing, f0 range, and the use of tones and uptalk. Building on foundational works by Pierrehumbert, Mennen, and Gut, this work bridges significant gaps in the field by comparing different L1 and L2 varieties, integrating diverse linguistic variables, and proposing a multifactorial model of L2 prosody. Relevant for linguists, language educators, and researchers in SLA, the findings offer valuable insights for reducing foreign accents and enhancing intelligibility, making it an essential resource for improving language teaching methodologies and learner outcomes. Dive into this essential guide and elevate your understanding of L2 prosody and its impact on effective communication.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027246475

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Understanding Pragmatic Markers

A Variational Pragmatic Approach

By: Karin Aijmer

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Understanding Pragmatic Markers

A Variational Pragmatic Approach

By: Karin Aijmer

An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748635513

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Pragmatics

An Advanced Resource Book for Students

By: Dawn Archer,Karin Aijmer,Anne Wichmann

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Pragmatics

An Advanced Resource Book for Students

By: Dawn Archer,Karin Aijmer,Anne Wichmann

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Section A: Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers’ techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B: Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C: Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Pragmatics: provides a broad view of pragmatics from a range of perspectives, gathering readings from key names in the discipline, including Geoffrey Leech, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Kohnen, Joan Manes and Nessa Wolfson covers a wide variety of topics, including speech acts, pragmatic markers, implicature, research methods in pragmatics, facework and politeness, and prosody examines the social and cultural contexts in which pragmatics occurs, such as in cross-cultural pragmatics (silence, indirectness, forms of address, cultural scripts) and pragmatics and power (the courtroom, police interaction, political interviews and doctor-patient communication) uses a wide range of corpora to provide both illustrative examples and exploratory tasks is supported by a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/archer featuring extra activities and additional data for analysis, guidance on undertaking corpus analysis and research, including how to create your own corpus with CMC, and suggestions for further reading. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Pragmatics provides an essential resource for students and researchers of applied linguistics.

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0415497868

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Breaking Light

By: Karin Altenberg

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Breaking Light

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Island of Wings

A Novel

By: Karin Altenberg

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Island of Wings

A Novel

By: Karin Altenberg

A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened.

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0143120662

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The Unstable Manifold

Janet Frame's Challenge to Determinism

By: Karin Hansson

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The Unstable Manifold

Janet Frame's Challenge to Determinism

By: Karin Hansson

Mae pump ffrind 12-13 oed wedi cael eu noddi i aros mewn hen blasdy am un noson. Oes ¿na ysbryd yn cuddio yno?Five friends have been sponsored to spend the night in a haunted mansion.

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0862384206

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Island of Wings

A Novel

By: Karin Altenberg

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A Novel

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English Corpus Linguistics

By: Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg

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English Corpus Linguistics

By: Karin Aijmer,Bengt Altenberg

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Breaking Light

Breaking Light

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

English Corpus Linguistics

English Corpus Linguistics

Conversational Routines in English

Conversational Routines in English

English Discourse Particles

English Discourse Particles

English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation

English-Medium Instruction and Pronunciation

English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers

Understanding Pragmatic Markers

Understanding Pragmatic Markers

Pragmatics

Pragmatics

Breaking Light

Breaking Light

Island of Wings

Island of Wings

The Unstable Manifold

The Unstable Manifold

Island of Wings

Island of Wings

English Corpus Linguistics

English Corpus Linguistics

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