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UNINA9910819871503321 |
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Blair Sheila |
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Text and image in medieval Persian art / / Sheila S. Blair |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2019 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Edinburgh studies in Islamic art |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-318) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Art of Writing: A Bowl from Samarqand -- Chapter 3. Perfuming the Air: A Rosewater Sprinkler from Herat -- Chapter 4. Monumentality under the Mongols: The Tomb of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya -- Chapter 5. A Romantic Interlude: The Wedding Celebrations from a Manuscript with Three Poems by Khwaju Kirmani -- Chapter 6. Proclaiming Sovereignty: The Ardabil Carpets -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Illustration Acknowledgments -- Index |
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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615520);What is Second Language Acquisition?In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding SLA. In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the terms 'second', 'language' and 'acquisition'.Block discusses a wide variety of research by applied linguists and those working in SLA who have drawn on recent developments in social theory in their attempts to make sense of language practices and language learning. The main thread running through the text is the suggestion that SLA researchers need to concern themselves not only with language learning as an individual and primarily cognitive process, but also as a sociohistorically situated |
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