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Semantic Prosody: A Critical Evaluation Dominic Stewart 9780415850544
RRP: $113.38$98.43Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an... -
Advances in Critical Discourse Studies by John Richardson 9780415824798
RRP: $75.58$67.39Advances in Critical Discourse Studies collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical Discourse Studies, exploring the field from theoretical, analytic and methodological perspectives... -
Discourse Adjectives by Gina Taranto 9780415847070
RRP: $113.38$98.43First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415847070Author Gina TarantoFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 227g -
The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution: A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis by Jie Zhang 9780415941563
RRP: $283.50$246.29First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415941563Author Jie ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Global English Slang: Methodologies and Perspectives Julie Coleman 9780415842686
RRP: $92.38$80.72Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today.The book illustrates the application of a range of different methodologies to the study of slang... -
Metaphor and Reconciliation: The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in Post-Conflict Conversations by Lynne J. Cameron 9780415839037
RRP: $88.18$77.18Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, 'walking the footsteps of the bombers' as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but... -
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 4. Syntax (third volume) by Otto Jespersen 9780415860246
RRP: $113.38$99.27This book was first published in 1954.Book InformationISBN 9780415860246Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 726g -
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 2, Syntax (first volume) by Otto Jespersen 9780415860239
RRP: $113.38$99.27This book was first published in 1954.Book InformationISBN 9780415860239Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 907g -
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings by Otto Jespersen 9780415860222
RRP: $113.38$99.27This book was first published in 1954.Book InformationISBN 9780415860222Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 839g -
Advancing Methodology and Practice: The IRIS Repository of Instruments for Research into Second Languages by Alison Mackey 9780415833639
RRP: $262.50$235.45Instruments for Research into Second Languages is an accessible introduction to understanding and evaluating existing and emerging methodologies in L2 research. The book provides an introduction to the data collection materials available in the IRIS... -
Stretched Verb Constructions in English by D. J. Allerton 9780415862899
RRP: $104.98$91.35Constructions such as 'make an accusation against', or 'give one's approval for' can be seen as 'stretched' versions of simple verbs, such as 'accuse' or 'approve of'. What is the precise linguistic nature of stretched verbs, and how many basic types are... -
The Semantics of the Future by Bridget Copley 9780415808224
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a... -
Dislocated Elements in Discourse: Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives by Benjamin Shaer 9780415808194
RRP: $96.58$85.11This volume is about 'dislocation' - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. Dislocation encompasses a wide range of linguistic phenomena, related to nominal and adverbial expressions and to the... -
Translation and Society: An Introduction Sergey Tyulenev (Durham University, UK) 9780415721219
RRP: $283.50$246.29This essential new textbook guides readers through the social aspects and sociologically informed approaches to the study of translation.Sergey Tyulenev surveys implicitly and explicitly sociological approaches to the study of translation, drawing on the... -
Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability by Melissa Bowerman 9780415721998
RRP: $115.48$100.21This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure... -
Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Julia S. Falk 9780415756600
RRP: $113.38$98.43Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their... -
Translation and Identity in the Americas: New Directions in Translation Theory by Edwin Gentzler 9780415774512
RRP: $283.50$246.29Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic,... -
Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce's Marginalia by Ivan Mladenov 9780415759861
RRP: $104.98$91.35The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and... -
Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language by Christopher Hutton 9780415757591
RRP: $113.38$99.27This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the... -
Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings Paula Blank 9780415756846
RRP: $113.38$98.43The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects of early modern English - in both linguistic and literary works of the... -
Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment: A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology by Ulrich Ricken 9780415755948
RRP: $113.38$98.43Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful... -
The Linguistics of Political Argument: The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House Alan Partington 9780415753890
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late... -
The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness of Adjectives by David Beck 9780415864992
RRP: $113.38$98.43First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415864992Author David BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 318g -
Doing Applied Linguistics: A guide for students by Nicholas Groom 9780415566414
RRP: $220.50$190.81Doing Applied Linguistics provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of applied linguistics for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. The book explores the basics of the field then goes on to examine in... -
Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World by John O'Regan 9780415739375
RRP: $262.50$226.51Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is 'on the move', with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of... -
Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things with Words by Douglas Robinson 9780415753999
RRP: $104.98$91.35In this book, Douglas Robinson introduces a new distinction between 'constative' and 'performative' linguistics, arguing that Austin's distinction can be used to understand linguistic methodologies. Constative linguistics, Robinson suggests, includes... -
Quantitative Research Methods for Linguists: a questions and answers approach for students by Tim Grant 9780415736312
RRP: $283.50$246.29Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduates undertaking research for the first time. Employing a task-based approach, the authors demonstrate key methods through a series of... -
A Short History of the German Language by William Walker Chambers 9780415727396
$234.38This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge either of its development or of linguistic theories, with a short account of the essential factors -... -
Judeo-Romance Linguistics: A Bibliography (Latin, Italo-, Gallo-, Ibero-, and Rhaeto-Romance except Castilian) by Paul Wexler 9780415727358
$98.64A separate bibliographic treatment of the Judeo-Romance languages should facilitate a deeper appreciation of the contributions that they may make to Romance linguistics in general. Up until now, Judeo-Romance topics have scarcely been canvassed in... -
Studies in Linguistic Geography: The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland by John M. Kirk 9780415725668
$234.38The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of... -
Categorial Grammars by Mary McGee Wood 9780415723602
$234.38In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment... -
A Linguistic Description and Computer Program for Children's Speech by Geoffrey J. Turner 9780415724029
$73.63This book presents a framework for the linguistic analysis of speech and a computer program to process the results of this analysis. The model of description for the linguistic analysis is that known as 'scale-and-category' grammar. It is particularly... -
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 3 by Otto Jespersen 9780415864626
RRP: $113.38$99.27This book was first published in 1954.Book InformationISBN 9780415864626Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 703g -
Mankind, Nation and Individual by Otto Jespersen 9780415864619
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book was first published in 1947.Book InformationISBN 9780415864619Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 386g -
Structure in Language: A Dynamic Perspective by Thomas Berg 9780415542241
RRP: $109.18$95.74This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in psycholinguistic terms. The focus of the book is on... -
Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems by Viola Giulia Miglio 9780415537452
RRP: $113.38$98.43Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary... -
Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech: Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society by Joanna Hart Lowenstein 9780415540902
RRP: $96.58$84.27This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve... -
Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age by Mary P. Sheridan 9780415559621
RRP: $283.50$246.29Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age explores new ways of meaning making by examining the practices, stories, and products of new and digital media producers with the goal of understanding the logic of marketplace production. ... -
The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk by Alan Partington 9780415544078
RRP: $92.38$80.72The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing `laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce... -
New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality Ruth Page 9780415516563
RRP: $113.38$98.43The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not...