Authors:Eva Alcón Soler, Alicia Martínez-Flor,
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: language, testing, second, acquisition, teaching, learning, pragmatics, foreign, investigating
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 184769084X
ISBN-13: 9781847690845

The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings and focuses on different foreign languages. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.

Authors:Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, cambridge, approaches, structure, language, investigating, corpus
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-05-13
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521499577
ISBN-13: 9780521499576

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to the study of language, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples and illustrates exciting new findings about language and the different ways that people speak and write. The book is important both for its step-by-step descriptions of research methods and for its findings about grammar and vocabulary, language use, language learning, and differences in language use across texts and user groups.

Authors:John Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Rober
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: classifying, violent, crimes, investigating, system, classification, manual, standard, crime
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2006-09-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0787985015
ISBN-13: 9780787985011

This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on computer crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide. This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child

Author: Bruce E. Wampold
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychotherapy, scientific, historical, cultural, perspectives, practice, counseling, debate, models, methods, findings, investigating
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805832025
ISBN-13: 9780805832020

The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings comprehensively reviews the research on psychotherapy to dispute the commonly held view that the benefits of psychotherapy are derived from the specific ingredients contained in a given treatment (medical model). The author reviews the literature related to the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy, relative efficacy of various treatments, specificity of ingredients contained in established therapies, effects due to common factors such as the working alliance, adherence and allegiance to the therapeutic protocol, and effects that are p

Authors:Daniel Gile, Helle V. Dam, Friedel Dubslaff, Bodil Ma
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: translation, barcelona, benjamins, library, congress, international, selected, papers, investigating
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2001-12-31
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027216371
ISBN-13: 9789027216373

This volume brings together a selection of papers on translation. The papers illustrate translation paradigms to reach a critical revision of existing paradigms and to develop new ones in approaching the translated text. The translation process is also examined focusing on skills, knowledge and strategies that make up translation competence, translation and ideology which examines the "invisible" influence of ideologies on the translator, and the role of translators in transmitting ideology, and translation receivers, envisaging translators as communicators caught between the opposing trends o

Authors:Peter Jordens, Josine A. Lalleman,
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: acquisition, language, studies, second, investigating
Number of Pages: 469
Published: 1996-10
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 3110151502
ISBN-13: 9783110151503

Authors:Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sexual, media, routledge, series, communication, sexuality, influence, teens, investigating, adolescent
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0805834907
ISBN-13: 9780805834901

This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly, including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, standards of beauty, courtship, and relationship norms. Chapters included here present new perspectives on what teens are paying attention to in the media, and offer insight into how teens are understanding and applying what the media present about sex and sexuality. Employing various methodological approac