Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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The Annual report of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is published with a view to protecting investors and maintaining the integrity of the securities markets.


The Book in Africa

The Book in Africa

Author: C. Davis

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137401618

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This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.


Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English

Author: Marcus Callies

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9027254311

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This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.


The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

Author: Jason McElligott

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1137415320

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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.