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Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community by Veronika Koller 9780415960953
RRP: $199.48$172.94Lesbian Discourses is the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have communicated since 1970, how this change can be traced in texts such as... -
Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin by Qing Zhang 9780415708074
RRP: $283.50$247.13Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial role of language in shaping the sociocultural landscape of contemporary China. Based on a wide range of... -
Redefining Linguistics by Hayley G. Davis 9780415715843
$234.38The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute... -
Learning about Linguistics by F. C. Stork 9780415715805
$234.38This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject. Each... -
The Chomsky Update by Raphael Salkie 9780415715744
$181.86Noam Chomsky has been described as 'arguably the most important intellectual alive'. His revolutionary work in linguistics has aroused intense scholarly interest, while his trenchant critique of United States foreign policy and his incisive analysis of... -
A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English by Michael Rochemont 9780415715850
$234.38This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that... -
Literacy and the Politics of Representation by Mary Hamilton 9780415686150
RRP: $283.50$246.29Literacy is a key indicator for comparing individuals and nations in contemporary society. It is central to public debates about the nature of the public sphere, economic markets, citizenship and self-governance. Literacy and the Politics of... -
The Environmental Communication Yearbook: Volume 3 by Stephen P. Depoe 9780415652391
RRP: $62.98$55.94First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415652391Author Stephen P. DepoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 431g -
The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman by Hilda J. Koopman 9780415652148
RRP: $104.98$92.19Specifiers and Heads covers such topics as: * interpretation and distribution of pronouns * ECP effects * specifiers and phrase structure * the role and functioning of head movement * the architecture of grammar Each chapter draws syntactic... -
Language Processing in Discourse: A Key to Felicitous Translation by Monika Doherty 9780415649599
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences... -
Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis by Miriam Meyerhoff 9780415698214
RRP: $203.68$176.51Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly... -
Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English by James Milroy 9780415696821
RRP: $252.00$217.58Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language. James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language... -
Working with Multimodality: Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age by Jennifer Rowsell 9780415676236
RRP: $283.50$246.29In today's digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even `new' literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working... -
Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective by Rodney Jones 9780415672603
RRP: $92.38$80.72Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of... -
Towards an Elegant Syntax by Michael Brody 9780415654593
RRP: $41.98$37.15This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. The author shows that although the conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' may appear to be... -
Configurations of Sentential Complementation: Perspectives from Romance Languages by Johan Rooryck 9780415646895
RRP: $104.98$91.35The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework of generative grammar. The first part of the book... -
Doing English Language: A Guide for Students by Angela Goddard 9780415618830
RRP: $220.50$190.81Doing English Language provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of English Language studies for readers who are interested in taking courses at university level. This book addresses the fundamental questions about... -
Crosslinguistic Influence in Language and Cognition Scott Jarvis (Ohio University) 9780415879811
RRP: $92.38$80.72A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work concerning crosslinguistic influence, or "transfer," this book will become the authoritative account of transfer in second-language learning and its consequences for language and thought... -
Public Discourses of Gay Men Paul Baker 9780415850223
RRP: $104.98$91.35Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on 'gay language' focus on private conversation and small communities. As such,... -
Essays in Syntactic Theory by Samuel David Epstein 9780415647557
RRP: $113.38$98.43The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs... -
Evaluative Semantics: Cognition, Language and Ideology by Jean-Pierre Malrieu 9780415647588
RRP: $104.98$91.35Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical,... -
English and Celtic in Contact Markku Filppula 9780415636728
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects and the reflexes... -
Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of Contrastive Palatalization by Alexei Kochetov 9780415941549
RRP: $283.50$246.29First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415941549Author Alexei KochetovFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative by Lisa Yaszek 9780415939645
RRP: $119.68$103.76First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415939645Author Lisa YaszekFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 431g -
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition by Robert Kirchner 9780415937436
RRP: $273.00$235.43The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.Book InformationISBN 9780415937436Author Robert KirchnerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 476g -
Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach Richard Alexander 9780415888356
RRP: $96.58$84.27In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres -... -
Translation goes to the Movies Michael Cronin (Dublin City University, Ireland) 9780415422864
RRP: $79.78$70.10This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera,... -
The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies Janet Maybin (The Open University, UK) 9780415403382
RRP: $60.88$52.69The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. This authoritative collection includes entries written by well-known language specialists from a diverse range... -
Rude Britannia by Mina Gorji 9780415382762
RRP: $188.98$163.99Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon's obscene outburst on 'I'm a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of complaints - a muted reaction compared to the furore... -
Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends by Pedro J. Chamizo-Dominguez 9780415887885
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the... -
Existential Faithfullness: A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement and Dissimulation by Caro Struijke 9780415867085
RRP: $113.38$98.43First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415867085Author Caro StruijkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 295g -
Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes by Naomi Gurevich 9780415865142
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully... -
True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English by Christine Gunlogson 9780415865074
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences: 1) It's raining? 2) It's raining. The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a... -
Nigerian Pidgin Nick Faraclas 9780415861953
RRP: $113.38$98.43This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax, morphology and phonology of a language which may soon become the most widely spoken in all of Africa.Book... -
The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals: A Case Study from Ju'hoansi by Amanda L. Miller-Ockhuizen 9780415861410
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in Khoesan languages, and the first study of... -
Theoretical Comparative Syntax: Studies in Macroparameters by Naoki Fukui 9780415860123
RRP: $69.28$62.08Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between... -
The Language Myth in Western Culture Roy Harris, Jr. 9780415865210
RRP: $113.38$98.43The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human communication: that each national language is a unique code and that linguistic communication consists in the... -
Discourse: The Basics by Angela Goddard 9780415856539
RRP: $199.48$172.94Humans are social animals and are constantly interacting with each other through conversation, written communication, symbols and other expressions . Discourse: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the analysis of those interactions... -
Causes and Consequences of Word Structure by Jennifer Hay 9780415861403
RRP: $113.38$98.43First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415861403Author Jennifer HayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 363g -
De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks by Georgette Wang 9780415855020
RRP: $79.78$70.10The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing...