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Non-Adversarial Justice

By: Michael King,Arie Freiberg,Becky Batagol,Ross Hyams

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Non-Adversarial Justice

By: Michael King,Arie Freiberg,Becky Batagol,Ross Hyams

This book outlines key aspects of the use of non-adversarial practices in the Australian justice system with reference to similar developments in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It examines in detail non-adversarial theories and practices such as therapeutic jurisprudence, restorative justice, preventive law, creative problem solving, holistic law, appropriate or alternative dispute resolution, collaborative law, problem-oriented courts, diversion programs, indigenous courts, coroners courts and managerial and administrative procedures.

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Federation Press

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1760020222

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Vocabulary and Language Teaching

By: Ronald Carter,Michael Mccarthy

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Vocabulary and Language Teaching

By: Ronald Carter,Michael Mccarthy

The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography; and a further chapter discusses recent advances in the field of lexis and discourse analysis. There is also a series of specially commissioned articles which investigate the structure and functions of the modern English lexicon in relation to its exploitation for classroom vocabulary teaching.

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131786915X

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Issues in Applied Linguistics

By: Michael McCarthy

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Issues in Applied Linguistics

By: Michael McCarthy

This book provides a wide-ranging treatment of the major issues in applied linguistics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521584876

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Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

By: Michael Makkai

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Duality and Definability in First Order Logic

By: Michael Makkai

We develop a duality theory for small Boolean pretoposes in which the dual of the [italic capital]T is the groupoid of models of a Boolean pretopos [italic capital]T equipped with additional structure derived from ultraproducts. The duality theorem states that any small Boolean pretopos is canonically equivalent to its double dual. We use a strong version of the duality theorem to prove the so-called descent theorem for Boolean pretoposes which says that category of descent data derived from a conservative pretopos morphism between Boolean pretoposes is canonically equivalent to the domain-pretopos. The descent theorem contains the Beth definability theorem for classical first order logic. Moreover, it gives, via the standard translation from the language of categories to symbolic logic, a new definability theorem for classical first order logic concerning set-valued functors on models, expressible in purely syntactical (arithmetical) terms.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821825658

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Generative Phonology

Description and Theory

By: Kenstowicz,Charles Kisseberth

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Generative Phonology

Description and Theory

By: Kenstowicz,Charles Kisseberth

This volume explains the generative approach to phonological analysis and theory through a rigorous examination of data from a diverse sample of languages. It will give students the theoretical background necessary to read the phonological literature critically, and the analytical tools required for describing phonological structure.

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Language and Situation

Language Varieties and their Social Contexts

By: Michael Gregory,Susanne Carroll

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Language and Situation

Language Varieties and their Social Contexts

By: Michael Gregory,Susanne Carroll

Originally published in 1978. This book provides and explains a framework for understanding and describing variations of style of language in relation to the social context in which it is used. Constant features of language users, such as their temporal, geographical. and social origins, their range of intelligibility, and their individualities, are related to concepts of dialects, but dialects are not the only kind of language variety. There are features of language situations that yield others; the medium used, the roles of the users and their relationships, as well as recurring situations and cultural habits, all relate to the style employed. Variety in language can be seen in terms of the major functions of language, as 'content' as 'inter-action' and as 'texture'. Studying variety in language from sociological and linguistic aspects this book is also interesting for psycholinguistics and literary study.

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Routledge

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0429790201

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Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German

By: Michael Jessen

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Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German

By: Michael Jessen

Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists — among them Roman Jakobson — have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant phonetic core of this distinction. Later it became the dominant view that voice onset time or laryngeal features are more reasonable alternatives. However, based on a number of facts and arguments from current phonetics and phonology this book claims that the Jakobsonian feature tense was rejected prematurely. Among the theoretical aspects addressed, it is argued that an acoustic definition of distinctive features best captures the functional aspects of speech communication, while it is also discussed how the conclusions are relevant for formal accounts, such as feature geometry. The invariant of tense is proposed to be durational, and its ‘basic correlate’ is proposed to be aspiration duration. It is shown that tense and voice differ in their invariant properties and basic correlates, but that they share a number of other correlates, including F0 onset and closure duration. In their stop systems languages constitute a typology between the selection of voice and tense, but in their fricative systems languages universally tend towards a syncretism involving voicing and tenseness together. Though the proposals made here are intended to have general validity, the emphasis is on German. As part of this focus, an acoustic study and a transillumination study of the realization of /p,t,k,f,s/ vs. /b,d,g,v,z/ in German are presented.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282242

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For Love of the Imagination

Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis

By: Michael Vannoy Adams

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For Love of the Imagination

Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis

By: Michael Vannoy Adams

I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael Vannoy Adams, from the Preface. For Love of the Imagination is a book about the imagination – about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology – or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive – and so valuable – about Jungian psychoanalysis is that it emphasizes images. For Love of the Imagination is also a book about interdisciplinary applications of Jungian psychoanalysis. What enables these applications is that all disciplines include images of which they are more or less unconscious. Jungian psychoanalysis is in an enviable position to render these images conscious, to specify what and how they mean. On the contemporary scene, as a result of the digital revolution, there is no trendier word than "applications" – except, perhaps, the abbreviation "apps." In psychoanalysis, there is a "Freudian app" and a "Jungian app." The "Jungian app" is a technology of the imagination. This book applies Jungian psychoanalysis to images in a variety of disciplines. For Love of the Imagination also includes the 2011 Moscow lectures on Jungian psychoanalysis. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, students, and those with an interest in Jung.

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1135009848

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Some Special Properties of the Adjunction Theory for $3$-Folds in $\mathbb P^5$

By: Mauro Beltrametti,Michael Schneider,Andrew John Sommese

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Some Special Properties of the Adjunction Theory for $3$-Folds in $\mathbb P^5$

By: Mauro Beltrametti,Michael Schneider,Andrew John Sommese

This work studies the adjunction theory of smooth 3-folds in P]5. Because of the many special restrictions on such 3-folds, the structure of the adjunction theoretic reductions are especially simple, e.g. the 3-fold equals its first reduction, the second reduction is smooth except possibly for a few explicit low degrees, and the formulae relating the projective invariants of the given 3-fold with the invariants of its second reduction are very explicit. Tables summarizing the classification of such 3-folds up to degree 12 are included. Many of the general results are shown to hold for smooth projective n-folds embedded in P]N with N 2n -1.

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0821802348

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Word-order Variation in Isaiah 40-55

A Functional Perspective

By: Michael Rosenbaum

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Word-order Variation in Isaiah 40-55

A Functional Perspective

By: Michael Rosenbaum

What is the significance of word-order variation in Isaiah 40-55? This work attempts to answer that question through the application of a functional linguistic model. A model is outlined which is drawn primarily from Functional Grammar and a metalanguage is developed which also incorporates insights and terminology from Prague School linguistics and Discourse Analysis. According to this model, all languages develop a basic functional pattern into which constituents are placed in a consistent, familiar order according to the function which those constituents serve in a discourse context. Additionaly, languages develop special positions which can be used to mark constituents with certain functions (Topic, Theme, Setting, Focus, Tail, Vocative and Parenthetical). A functional pattern (the basic pattern plus the special positions) is outlined for the language of verbal clauses in Isaiah 40-55. Also, rules are written which describe the placement of constituents in the functional pattern. Each of the functions outlined in the model and defined in the metalanguage is illustrated in the language of Isaiah 40-55. Finally, there is a chapter which outlines the many defamiliar, or poetic, patterns found in Isaiah 40-55 due to the foregrounding of the language. In conclusion, it is observed that the order of constituents in the language of Isaiah 40-55 frequently does not emulate the basic functional pattern. Two explanations are demonstrated for this phenomenon: first, Deutero-Isaiah makes frequent use of special positions to mark certain functions; and second, the language of Isaiah 40-55 is foregrounded, or poetic, and highly defamiliarizing.

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9004358668

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Narrative Progression in the Short Story

A Corpus Stylistic Approach

By: Michael J. Toolan

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Narrative Progression in the Short Story

A Corpus Stylistic Approach

By: Michael J. Toolan

One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. The book will be of interest to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and short story scholars.

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Problems in Lexicography

A Critical / Historical Edition

By: Michael Adams

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Problems in Lexicography

A Critical / Historical Edition

By: Michael Adams

Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference on Lexicography, held November 11–12, 1960. It set a standard that still holds today, three generations later. This critical and historical edition, brilliantly researched and presented by Michael Adams, explores the enduring legacy of this classic work and promises to extend its life further into the twenty-first century. Problems in Lexicography: A Critical / Historical Edition amply demonstrates that this unique work is a book of historical significance and a worthy prologue to lexicography's present.

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0253063299

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Crowdsourced Politics

The Rise of Online Petitions & Micro-Donations

By: Ariadne Vromen,Darren Halpin,Michael Vaughan

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Crowdsourced Politics

The Rise of Online Petitions & Micro-Donations

By: Ariadne Vromen,Darren Halpin,Michael Vaughan

This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. In doing do, the book argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the everyday repertoires of citizens and their organisations. Within the digitally-enabled shift in individual acts of participation, creating, signing and sharing online petitions and micro-donations have become a focal point because of the clear evolution from their offline and online counterparts. To illustrate their arguments the authors use an original nationally representative survey on acts of political engagement, undertaken with Australian citizens. Additionally, through detailed interviews and analysis of their web presence they show how advocacy organisations use online petitions within their repertoire of strategic actions. Lastly, they analyse the kinds of policy issues that mobilise citizens on crowdsourcing platforms, based on a unique dataset of 17,000 petitions from the popular non-government platform, Change.org. They contrast these mass public concerns with the policy agenda of the government of the day to show there is a disjuncture and general lack of responsiveness to this form of citizen expression.

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Springer Nature

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9811943575

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Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics

By: Michael McCarthy

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Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics

By: Michael McCarthy

This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521597692

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The Audit Society

Rituals of Verification

By: Michael Power

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The Audit Society

Rituals of Verification

By: Michael Power

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America. In addition to financial audits there are now medical audits, technology audits, value for money audits, environmental audits, quality audits, teaching audits, and many others. Why has this happened? What does it mean when a society invests so heavily in an industry of checking and when more and more individuals find themselves subject to formal scrutiny? The Audit Society argues that the rise of auditing has its roots in political demands for accountability and control. At the heart of a new administrative style internal control systems have begun to play an important public role and individual and organizational performance has been increasingly formalized and made auditable. Michael Power argues that the new demands and expectations of audits live uneasily with their operational capabilities. Not only is the manner in which they produce assurance and accountability open to question but also, by imposing their own values, audits often have unintended and dysfunctional consequences for the audited organization.

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OUP Oxford

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019103746X

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Language as Discourse

Perspectives for Language Teaching

By: Michael Mccarthy,Ronald Carter

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Language as Discourse

Perspectives for Language Teaching

By: Michael Mccarthy,Ronald Carter

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural contexts in which they function. They argue that the functions of language are often best understood in a discoursal environment and that exploring language in context compels us to revise commonly-held understandings about the forms and meanings of language. In so doing, the authors argue the need for language teachers, syllabus planners and curriculum organisers to give greater attention to language as discourse.

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Organized Uncertainty

Designing a World of Risk Management

By: Michael Power

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Organized Uncertainty

Designing a World of Risk Management

By: Michael Power

Since the mid-1990s risk management has dramatically expanded its reach and significance to become a benchmark of good governance for a wide variety of public and private organizations. This book shows that the rise of risk management has much less to do with real dangers and opportunities than with organizational accountability and legitimacy.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199253943

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Understanding White-Collar Crime

An Opportunity Perspective

By: Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson

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Understanding White-Collar Crime

An Opportunity Perspective

By: Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson

Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case studies, substantive materials, and an annotated appendix of online resources to make this a core book for courses on white-collar crime.

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1134487576

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Semiotics 1980

By: Michael Herzfeld,Margot D. Lenhart

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Semiotics 1980

By: Michael Herzfeld,Margot D. Lenhart

This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual traditions represented here reflect the current state of flux in semiotics--a healthy chaos, in which new ideas vie for survival and experiment is at a premium. Because of this variety, we have kept our editorial in terventions to a minimum. In addition, we have refrained from imposing any topical classification. While we could have used the panel titles as a taxonomic principle, this would not have produced a sufficiently even format. We have therefore uti lized the alphabetical order of authors' surnames as being os tensibly the least "loaded." These Proceedings represent a current view of the "semi otic scene," especially in the U.S.A. They also include some work representative of architectural semiotics from the U.K. We have tried to bring the volume to publication rapidly, since the immediacy of the contents would seem to be the pri mary asset of any such project. We would like to express the Society's collective grati tude to the 1980 Program Committee chaired by Richard Bauman (University of Texas-Austin), the Lubbock Local Arrangements Committee chaired by Nancy P. Hickerson (Texas Tech Universi ty), and our special thanks to Laurel Phipps of the School of Continuing Education at Texas Tech University.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468491377

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The Penrose Transform and Analytic Cohomology in Representation Theory

AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference, June 27 to July 3, 1992, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

By: Michael G. Eastwood

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The Penrose Transform and Analytic Cohomology in Representation Theory

AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference, June 27 to July 3, 1992, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

By: Michael G. Eastwood

This book contains refereed papers presented at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference on the Penrose Transform and Analytic Cohomology in Representation Theory held in the summer of 1992 at Mount Holyoke College. The conference brought together some of the top experts in representation theory and differential geometry. One of the issues explored at the conference was the fact that various integral transforms from representation theory, complex integral geometry, and mathematical physics appear to be instances of the same general construction, which is sometimes called the ``Penrose transform''. There is considerable scope for further research in this area, and this book would serve as an excellent introduction.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821851764

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Vocabulary

By: Michael McCarthy

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Vocabulary

By: Michael McCarthy

How are words and idioms organized in a language? How are they learnt and stored? Vocabulary explains the ways in which the various theories relating to these questions have been applied in both teaching and reference materials. A wide range of examples illustrate the text, and will help readers to evaluate and adapt the vocabulary materials they use in their own classrooms.

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White-Collar Crime

An Opportunity Perspective

By: Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson,Melissa Rorie,Jay P. Kennedy

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White-Collar Crime

An Opportunity Perspective

By: Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson,Melissa Rorie,Jay P. Kennedy

Approaches white-collar crime from a coherent theoretical perspective, critiquing the roles of socioeconomic class, gender, ethnicity, and race, and analyzing the latest case studies from around the world, like the new forms of fraud emerging in the wake of the COVID pandemic Addresses the growing social problem of crimes of the powerful with full intersectionality, broadening this textbook's appeal to the race and ethnic studies audience A leading competitor in the white-collar crime textbook market due to its rigor and timeliness

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Taylor & Francis

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100381803X

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An Introduction to Functional Grammar

By: M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen

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An Introduction to Functional Grammar

By: M.A.K. Halliday,Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen,Michael Halliday,Christian Matthiessen

This third edition of An Introduction to Functional Grammar has been extensively revised. While retaining the organization and coverage of the earlier editions, it incorporates a considerable amount of new material.

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1444119087

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Words and Phrases

Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics

By: Michael Stubbs

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Words and Phrases

Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics

By: Michael Stubbs

This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.

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0631208321

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Mathematical Developments Arising from Linear Programming

Proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference Held at Bowdoin College, June 25-July 1, 1988

By: Jeffrey C. Lagarias,Michael J. Todd

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Mathematical Developments Arising from Linear Programming

Proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference Held at Bowdoin College, June 25-July 1, 1988

By: Jeffrey C. Lagarias,Michael J. Todd

There has been much recent work in linear and non-linear programming centred on understanding and extending the ideas underlying Karmarkar's interior-point linear programming algorithm. This volume is the result of an AMS conference on mathematical developments arising from linear programming.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821851217

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Dialogue and Critical Discourse

Language, Culture, Critical Theory

By: Michael Macovski

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Dialogue and Critical Discourse

Language, Culture, Critical Theory

By: Michael Macovski

This interdisciplinary volume of collected, mostly unpublished essays demonstrates how Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning--and its subsequent elaborations--have influenced a wide range of critical discourses. With essays by Michael Holquist, Jerome J. McGann, John Searle, Deborah Tannen, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Shirley Brice Heath, Don H. Bialostosky, Paul Friedrich, Timothy Austin, John Farrell, Rachel May, and Michael Macovski, the collection explores dialogue not only as an exchange among intratextual voices, but as an extratextual interplay of historical influences, oral forms, and cultural heuristics as well. Such approaches extend the implications of dialogue beyond the boundaries of literary theory, to anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and cultural studies. The essays address such issues as the establishment and exercise of political power, the relation between conversational and literary discourse, the historical development of the essay, and the idea of literature as social action. Taken together, the essays argue for a redefinition of literary meaning--one that is communal, interactive, and vocatively created. They demonstrate that literary meaning is not rendered by a single narrator, nor even by a solitary author--but is incrementally exchanged and constructed.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361326

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Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis

By: Ruth Wodak,Michael Meyer

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Methods for Critical Discourse Analysis

By: Ruth Wodak,Michael Meyer

An up-to-date introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA), appropriate for both novice and experienced researchers"--Publisher description.

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SAGE Publications

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184787455X

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Acyclic Models

By: Michael Barr

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Acyclic Models

By: Michael Barr

Acyclic models is a method heavily used to analyze and compare various homology and cohomology theories appearing in topology and algebra. This book is the first attempt to put together in a concise form this important technique and to include all the necessary background. It presents a brief introduction to category theory and homological algebra. The author then gives the background of the theory of differential modules and chain complexes over an abelian category to state the main acyclic models theorem, generalizing and systemizing the earlier material. This is then applied to various cohomology theories in algebra and topology. The volume could be used as a text for a course that combines homological algebra and algebraic topology. Required background includes a standard course in abstract algebra and some knowledge of topology. The volume contains many exercises. It is also suitable as a reference work for researchers.

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