Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It guides students through all of the major areas of investigation, beginning with the fundamental aspects of brain structure and function and then following with key topics such as classic and progressive aphasia syndromes; speech perception and production; the meanings of object nouns, action verbs, and abstract words; the for...

Deze uiterst praktische, beknopte grammatica voor mbo en hbo kent een heldere en systematische opbouw.

Op de linkerbladzijden staat een overzichtelijke samenvatting van de hoofdzaken van de Duitse grammatica. Door middel van een gekleurde achtergrond krijgen elementaire structuren en kernachtig geformuleerde definities extra aandacht.

De rechterbladzijden bieden een grote verscheidenheid aan eenvoudige oefenstof. Dit oefenmateriaal is geheel ontleend aan de wereld van het zakenleven en heeft ...

An approachable and engaging introduction to Historical Linguistics with up-to-date pedagogy including exercises, further reading and online support material.

Historical Linguistics is a core part of most linguistics programmes. With the more experienced linguistics student in mind, this book covers many subjects in considerable depth while not sacrificing an appreciation of the whole.

Includes examples and datasets from a wide variety of languages and language families, whereas most historic...

Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. It offers access to a professional desktop subtitle editor, Wincaps Q4, and a leading cloud-based subtitling platform, OOONA.

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin-America. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of Spanish, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples of contemporary Spanish, both Peninsular and Latin-American, formal and informal. Fully revised and updated, the sixth edition is even more relevant to students and teachers of Spa...

Het Übungsbuch volgt qua opbouw het Kursbuch en biedt veel oefeningen waarmee de nieuw opgedane kennis zelfstandig kan worden verstevigd.

Aan het einde van elke les is er extra aandacht voor spelling. Ook staat er een kort overzicht met de voor de oefeningen relevante grammaticaonderwerpen.

Het Übungsbuch sluit af met de oplossingen van de oefeningen en de transcripties van de luisterteksten van het Übungsbuch.

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternati...

Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In recognition of the multitude of research trajectories within media effects, this edition also includes n...

Colloquial Arabic of Egypt provides a step-by-step course in spoken Egyptian Arabic – the most widely understood dialect in the Arab world. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Egyptian Arabic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include: Arabic in romanization form throughout, with optional Arabic ...

Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. Written for readers with no previous experience of grammatical analysis, Introducing English Grammar is suited to anyone beginning a study of linguistics, English language or speech pathology, as well as to students with primary literary interests who need a better understanding of the structure of English.