Explaining the Meaning of Words: A Descriptive Study on Strategies - Softcover

Glombitza, Andreas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3638774244 ISBN 13: 9783638774246

Verlag: GRIN Verlag, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (English Seminar/Applied English Linguistics), course: HS Lexical Semantics, language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to describe and analyze typical strategies employed for explaining unknown words. The empirical component is based on a small video-corpus comprising 4x6 interviews with native as well as non-native speakers of English, transcripts are included in the Appendix. The material is analyzed by means of a theoretical apparatus taken from lexical semantics and pragmatics.

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Andreas Glombitza-Cevey (né Glombitza) is a higher education developer, academic manager and occasional lecturer with living roots in Applied Linguistics and Rhetoric. He is currently a member of academic staff at the University of Hohenheim.

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• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3638774244
• ISBN 13: 9783638774246
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
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