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A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites: Common Grounds as Structured Information States by Jae-Il Yeom 9781138979307
RRP: £47.99£41.81First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138979307Author Jae-Il YeomFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 481g -
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English by Peter C. Collins 9781138918412
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of 'cleft' and 'pseudo-cleft' constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical... -
A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects by Peter Anderson 9781138890893
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1987, this atlas identifies structural patterns which exist in the sound systems of the dialects of England. It regards variation, not as something to be ignored or avoided, but as a central and essential feature of dialect, which must... -
The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages by Emily E. Scida 9781138878334
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Romance. The syntactic analysis offered here differs from... -
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: An Active Approach by David Bradley 9781138878341
RRP: £49.99£43.50Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost... -
Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman by Virginia C. Mueller-Gathercole 9781138876804
RRP: £53.99£47.27This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman. Melissa Bowerman has had a profound, widespread, and enduring... -
Techniques of Description: Spoken and Written Discourse by Gwyneth Fox 9781138868465
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book is a tribute to Malcolm Coulthard, who has been remarkably active and influential across a wide range of English Language Studies. He is particularly well-known for his pioneering work in spoken and written discourse analysis and most recently,... -
Studies in General and English Phonetics: Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. O'Connor by Jack Windsor Lewis 9781138868458
RRP: £53.99£47.27Rhythm, intonation, exotic and familiar languages as well as computer-sythesized audio-communications, procedures in forensic linguistics, pronunciation lexicography, language change and sociological aspects of speech such as English regional accents and... -
Functional Categories and Parametric Variation by Jamal Ouhalla 9781138868441
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book explores the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar'. From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we... -
Linguistic Ecology: Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region by Peter Muhlhausler 9781138868434
RRP: £49.99£43.50In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a... -
Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity by Scott Schwenter 9781138868380
RRP: £53.99£46.87First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138868380Author Scott SchwenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g -
Lawyers' Language: The Distinctiveness of Legal Language by Alfred I. Phillips 9781138868366
RRP: £21.99£19.34An interesting examination of law as language use or discourse, this study looks at the transformation of ordinary language into a special discourse for the purposes of the legal system. It is widely accepted that legal discourse is obscure, and often... -
Rethinking Linguistics by Hayley G. Davis 9781138868359
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to... -
Words - An Integrational Approach by Hayley G. Davis 9781138868342
RRP: £49.99£43.50Aims to reorient the study of language by taking into serious consideration the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers themselves, as a response to the now inescapable conclusion that traditional linguistic theory, with its focus on... -
Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: Processing Hindi Center Embeddings by Shravan Vasishth 9781138868335
RRP: £35.99£31.69The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth... -
The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages by Volker Gast 9781138868311
RRP: £49.99£43.50English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch zelf, Swedish sjalv, etc.) are used in two different functions: as 'intensifiers' (e.g. The president himself made the decision) and as markers of reflexivity (John criticized... -
The Grammar of Irish English: Language in Hibernian Style by Markku Filppula 9781138868472
RRP: £49.99£43.50Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account... -
Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography by Siepmann Dirk 9781138868298
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written... -
Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation by Ton van der Wouden 9781138868281
RRP: £49.99£43.50This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered are collocations,... -
A Unification of Morphology and Syntax: Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects by M. Rita Manzini 9781138868304
RRP: £49.99£43.50This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or... -
Women, Literacy and Development by Anna Robinson-Pant 9781138866577
RRP: £19.99£17.69Women's literacy is often assumed to be the key to promoting better health, family planning and nutrition in the developing world. This has dominated much development research and has led to women's literacy being promoted by governments and aid agencies... -
Morphologically Governed Accent in Optimality Theory by John D. Alderete 9781138865570
RRP: £53.99£46.87Alderete examines the influences of morphological factors on stress and pitch accent within Optimality Theory.Book InformationISBN 9781138865570Author John D. AldereteFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis... -
On Economizing the Theory of A-Bar Dependencies by Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai 9781138865532
RRP: £13.99£12.76First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138865532Author Wei-Tien Dylan TsaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 272g -
Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy by Fred R. Eckman 9781138839977
RRP: £47.99£41.81A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct from... -
New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse by Terry D. Royce 9781138839342
RRP: £53.99£47.27This book offers groundbreaking insights into exploring and accounting for the various facets of multimodality. It illustrates and tackles theoretical issues related to multimodal text analysis. The book focuses on important research areas: writing and... -
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Jean Aitchison 9781138834774
RRP: £94.99£82.35This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. `An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a... -
Word Structure by Richard Coates 9781138834408
RRP: £110.00£95.11Word Structure, provides a complete introduction to morphology, the study of the structure of words. Word Structure: * examines how words work as part of the language system * encourages readers to take an objective and analytic approach * refers to a... -
Generative Phonology by Iggy M. Roca 9781138833975
RRP: £135.00£117.28"Generative Phonology" offers an overview of the post-SPE theory of generative phonology and is suitable for linguists not specializing in phonology, who want to keep abreast of the latest developments in the subject. It deals with all the... -
Translation Under State Control: Books for Young People in the German Democratic Republic by Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth 9781138828391
RRP: £45.99£40.13In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children's literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual factors, the... -
The Complex and Dynamic Languaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals by Mileidis Gort 9781138827417
RRP: £135.00£117.28This expanded edition of the International Multilingual Research Journal's recent special issue on translanguaging - or the dynamic, normative languaging practices of bilinguals - presents a powerful, comprehensive volume on current scholarship on this... -
The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length by Brent De Chene 9781138989429
RRP: £45.99£40.53Data from a variety of languages are offered in support of the claim that although there are several processes by which languages commonly add to an already existing stock of long vowels, there is only one mechanism by which a language without a... -
The Internet, Social Networks and Civic Engagement in Chinese Societies by Wenhong Chen 9781138819788
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Internet in China reflects many contradictions and complexities of the society in which it is embedded. Despite the growing significance of digital media and communication technologies, research on their contingent, non-linear, and sometimes... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition by Peter Robinson 9781138817050
RRP: £58.99£52.08The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is... -
Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research by Charlene Polio 9781138814684
RRP: £47.99£41.81Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providing a uniquely balanced approach to L2 writing research. While other books favor either a qualitative or... -
Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages by Diedrich Westermann 9781138926042
RRP: £110.00£95.11First published in 1933, this book looks at the phonetics of African languages. It argues that a good grounding in phonetics and tone work is an indispensable preliminary to anyone embarking on a study of African language and so provides the material... -
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense by Christian W. Chun 9781138807099
RRP: £135.00£117.28Since the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, `capitalism' has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their... -
Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar by Susan Strauss 9781138785267
RRP: £135.00£118.28Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid... -
Categorial Morphology by Jack Hoeksema 9781138969964
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the... -
Talking About Language Assessment: The LAQ Interviews by Antony John Kunnan 9781138785519
RRP: £135.00£117.28Talking About Language Assessment is the first book to take an interview-based approach to the history of language assessment. This collection consists of interviews originally featured in Language Assessment Quarterly with renowned language assessment... -
Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography by Betsy Bowden 9781138918696
RRP: £37.99£33.38From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions already own sound recordings of English before 1500, or may wish to purchase the most useful ones available...