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Providing an account of major philosophical issues, this essential textbook bridges the gap between linguistics and the philosophy of language. Introduction to Linguistic Philosophy presents the theories of leading linguistic analysts such as Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Carnap and Quine. Ian Mackenzie's exploration into these theories prepares readers for advanced work on most topics in semantics and the study of language. His approach to ...

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English for the Financial Sector helps learners to prepare for a career in finance and enables those already working in the industry to improve their financial English.

Providing at least 50 hours of classroom material, this course builds financial language and teaches students about key financial concepts. English for the Financial Sector also focuses on the communication skills necessary for working effectively within the industry. It covers a wide range of financial topics, including retail and investment banking, accounting, trade finance, and mergers and acquisitions. A Student's Book and Teacher's Book ...

Professional English in Use Finance is suitable for intermediate students and above. It includes 50 units covering all aspects of financial vocabulary from Accounting to Borrowing and Lending, Central Banking to Venture Capital and many more areas including financial idioms and metaphors. Primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, it can also be used for classroom work and one-to-one lessons. This book is a must for both t...

Financial English richtet sich an Lernende, die eine Tätigkeit im Finanzsektor anstreben oder bereits in diesem Bereich arbeiten. Der Autor, Ian MacKenzie, unterrichtet an der Universität in Genf. Die komplett überarbeitete Neuausgabe dieses Klassikers vermittelt die wesentlichen Fachbegriffe und typischen Redewendungen aus der englischsprachigen Finanzwelt. Financial English bietet authentische Texte zu brandaktuellen Themen und hochmotiviere...

This best selling course has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's business and economics students. The English for Business Studies Audio CDs feature new authentic audio, including interviews with business people from key areas of business.

This best selling course has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's business and economics students.

bTitle:/b Forgotten Places. [Poems.] With an introduction by Arthur Waugh [and a portrait].br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collec...

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism a...

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism a...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Excerpt from Forgotten Places The faculty of self-expression, either by the spoken or the written word, is one of the rarest gifts, and it is particularly rare in youth. At all ages we have our natural restraints and reticences, but it is the peculiar quality of youth to keep its secrets to itself, or at least to reveal them only to a very few trusted friends. It very seldom happens that we can follow the work of a young writer with the feeli...

Linguistic signs do not coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. For Paul de Man, on the contrary, it suggested that language is unstable, random, arbitrary, mechanical, ironic and inhuman. This book seeks to show that relevance theory is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and literary interpretation than the deco...

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Linguistic signs do not coincide with intended or interpreted meanings. For relevance theory, this theoretical commonplace merely demonstrates the inferential nature of language. For Paul de Man, on the contrary, it suggested that language is unstable, random, arbitrary, mechanical, ironic and inhuman. This book seeks to show that relevance theory is a more plausible account of communication, cognition and literary interpretation than the deco...

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4th edition. This new edition continues to be the best introductory textbook for students, and is completely revised and updated. Additional chapters on anarchism and religion and politics included.