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The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about the language development of youth from working and lower socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at...

Navigating and resolving issues in intercultural communication is an integral part of the interpreter's role on a daily basis. This book is an essential guide to the interpersonal dimensions of intercultural communication in a variety of key interpreting...

Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that...

First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly stated rules rather than giving a detailed survey. It focuses on the West-Saxon dialect as this is best...

First published in 1985, this book studies several common items in English conversation known variously as 'discourse particles', 'interjections', 'discourse markers', and, more informally, 'hesitations' or 'fillers'. While the analysis primarily focuses...

This book examines the relationships between online visual interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online communication and its implications for educational practice...

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of...

The centrality of narrative analysis in the investigation of social processes and practices has become an established fact in the human sciences. The focus on narrative and displacement in this volume provides a starting point for a reflection on current...

Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a corpus of nearly 12,000 articles taken from 11 journals,...

This collection examines and uses discourse to promote a better understanding of culture and identity, with the primary goal of advancing an understanding of how discourse can be used to examine social and linguistic issues. Many of the contributions...

Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and indispensable guide to the essential terminology of the overlapping fields of Language, Media and Culture. Designed to give students and researchers 'tools for thinking with' in...

Introducing English Syntax provides a basic introduction to syntax for students studying English as a foreign language at university. Examining English phrase and sentence structure from a descriptive point of view, this book develops the reader's...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...

This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language. The volume questions the...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815329497Author James M. ScobbieFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 454g

This volume addresses salient theoretical issues concerning the validity of research methods in second-language acquisition, and provides critical analysis of contextualized versus sentence-level production approaches. The contributors present their...

Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.Book...

Teacher's Book include detailed notes with tips and advice on how to make the most of your programme.Book InformationISBN 9780582816831Author Liz KilbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 380g

This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives,...

Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato...

Zac is always looking up and spotting things in the sky, while Daisy is always looking down and seeing things on the ground. Both of them are so distracted that neither sees the other until they bump into each other at the end of the story! Part of the...

The "Teaching Guides" aim to provide the busy teacher with background notes and practical suggestions to help get the best of the "Storyworlds" series. The guides contain: ideas, games and photocopiable activities; record-keeping and assessment sheets;...

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots...

This Assessment Book; * contains characters and words from the main Reading Book to assess students' progress at that level * is supported by an assessment record in the Teaching Guide that allows the teacher or TA to evaluate each student's...

Joe knows there is something strange going on in Moon City but he doesn't know what. He sees some strange lights and decides to check them out.Book InformationISBN 9780435070946Author David ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher...

Ellie persuades Cam to play a trick on the Year 7 pupils in the canteen. Will they get away with it?Book InformationISBN 9780435070762Author Dee ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)...

"Rigby Rocket" is designed to offer links from guided to independent reading. It is linked to guided reading objectives, allowing children to practise valuable skills following a guided reading session. The titles are levelled to "Book Bands for Guided...

"Rigby Rocket" is designed to offer links from guided to independent reading. It is linked to guided reading objectives, allowing children to practise valuable skills following a guided reading session. The titles are levelled to "Book Bands for Guided...

Playing pirates is great fun! 'Be a Pirate' is a simple Non-fiction text that shows you how to dress up as a pirate captain or a ship hand. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and...

Make an Egg Card is a simple instructional text that tells you how to make an egg greetings card. There is a drawing or photograph to illustrate each simple step. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop...

Gran's house is too small for all her stuff. She wonders if her grandson Tom would like some of her things. Gran and Tom write each other a series of emails. Gran offers Tom lots of old things. Tom replies that he would like some of them. Part of the...

In 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...

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a...

The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415967648Author John FryFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 431g

M.A.K Halliday's work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who have taken Halliday's concept of social semiotics and developed...

With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning.In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a substantial extent Linguistics has...

In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains...

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or 'voice,' of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film. Existing models of stylistic analysis,...

This book was first published in 1954.Book InformationISBN 9780415860260Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1157g