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BC JD Plays Blue (KS1)/1B The Last Egg by Julia Donaldson
£6.58Perfect for enjoying in school or at home, Bug Club is proud to present a series of plays to get kids reading, sharing and interacting at KS1. Presented by celebrated children's author Julia Donaldson, each play features engaging stories, beautiful... -
Understanding Pragmatics by Gunter Senft
RRP: £43.99£39.53Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and... -
Easystart: Dino's Day in London by Stephen Rabley
£8.26Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of... -
A Writer's Reference with Writing About Literature by Diana Hacker
RRP: £57.99£56.95Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary,... -
Multimodality and Aesthetics by Frida Forsgren
RRP: £39.99£35.46This volume explores the relationship between aesthetics and traditional multimodal communication to show how all semiotic resources, not just those situated within fine arts, have an aesthetic function. Bringing together contributions from an... -
A Multimodal Approach to Video Games and the Player Experience by Weimin Toh
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to and description of the model,... -
Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic by Tong King Lee
RRP: £49.99£43.50This collection of essays represents the first of its kind in exploring the conjunction of translation and social media communication, with a focus on how these practices intersect and transform each other against the backdrop of the cascading COVID-19... -
Mixed Categories: The Morphosyntax of Noun Modification by Irina Nikolaeva
RRP: £27.99£25.65Exploring the phenomenon of 'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It investigates noun-adjective hybrids - adjectives and adjective-like... -
A Short History of the German Language by William Walker Chambers
RRP: £43.99£38.44This 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 -... -
Studies in Discourse Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard
RRP: £43.99£38.44The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in particular considers how successive utterances cohere together in continuous spoken discourse. Beginning with an earlier model... -
The Languages of Ghana by Mary E. Kropp Dakubu
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the... -
Definiteness and Indefiniteness: A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction by John A. Hawkins
RRP: £41.99£36.75First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic theory of definite and indefinite reference, on the basis of which, many co-occurance restrictions between... -
Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean by J. E. Wansborough
RRP: £43.99£38.44The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel... -
The Discourses of Capitalism: Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense by Christian W. Chun
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since 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... -
Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective by Steven Jones
RRP: £43.99£38.44Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon.This... -
Thematic Theory in Syntax and Interpretation by Robin Clark
RRP: £32.99£29.16In recent years, lexical argument structure, in the guise of thematic roles, has come to play an increasingly important part in syntactic theory. The first part of this book, first published in 1990, explores the interplay between thematic role... -
Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition: The IATIS Yearbook by Christopher Stone
RRP: £135.00£117.28Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition investigates the historical, ethical and professional dimensions of this, arguably, most widespread form of intercultural communication. Covering key topics from colonialism to representation, ethics and... -
Bilingual Parent Participation in a Divided School Community by Julia Menard-Warwick
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume theorizes parent participation in a bilingual school community in California, unpacking broader issues around language ideologies, language and power, and parent collaboration in diverse educational contexts. Highlighting data from a two-year... -
Second Language Acquisition: The Basics by Gregory D. Keating
RRP: £37.99£33.38Starting from the premise that language instruction should be informed by how humans learn language, this module on second language acquisition (SLA) aims to provide teachers at any level with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the key... -
Focusing on Form in Language Instruction by Wynne Wong
RRP: £37.99£33.38This module on focusing on form in language instruction provides novice and experienced instructors with pedagogical techniques to help second language learners acquire formal elements of an L2. Taking the position that the development of a linguistic... -
Technology in Language Learning: An Overview by Bryan Smith
RRP: £37.99£33.38This module on technology in language learning provides novice and experienced second and foreign language (L2) teachers alike with an introduction to the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The module first provides a historical... -
Advertising and Multilingual Repertoires: from Linguistic Resources to Patterns of Response by Marco Santello
RRP: £58.99£51.08Advertising and Multilingual Repertoires explores advertising from the perspective of multilingual audiences. Santello introduces the key linguistic processes involved in advertising discourse, and analyses the relationship between the linguistic... -
Spanish in the USA: Linguistic, translational and cultural aspects by Roberto A. Valdeon
RRP: £135.00£117.28Delving into the uneasy relationship between English and Spanish in the United States of America, this book approaches specific topics from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the more cultural to the more linguistic. The contributions explore the... -
Asian Translation Traditions by Tsoi Hung
RRP: £135.00£117.28Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability... -
The Routledge Companion to English Studies by Constant Leung
RRP: £49.99£44.50English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an authoritative overview of the subject area. Taking into account the changing... -
Doing Corpus Linguistics by William Crawford
RRP: £45.99£40.13Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and of a register analysis-based theoretical framework to provide students in Applied Linguistics and TESOL with the... -
Regional Rhetorics: Real and Imagined Spaces by Jenny Rice
RRP: £86.99£75.54Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and literary. This collection examines "rhetorical regionalism," or the relationships we have to physical... -
Studies in English Language and Literature: Doubt Wisely by M. J. Toswell
RRP: £49.99£43.90This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or... -
Interpersonal Grammar: Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory and Description by J. R. Martin
RRP: £100.00£84.96This pioneering volume lays out a set of methodological principles to guide the description of interpersonal grammar in different languages. It compares interpersonal systems and structures across a range of world languages, showing how discourse,... -
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Werner Abraham
RRP: £100.00£85.36What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of... -
Translating Literature by Susan Bassnett
RRP: £65.00£61.81The problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies. Interest in the issues of translation continues to grow, and is reflected in this collection of essays by specialists in both literature... -
New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse by Terry D. Royce
RRP: £135.00£117.68New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field. With contributions from top scholars around the... -
Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse by Dwight Bolinger
RRP: £74.00£64.85This is the second and concluding volume of the author's magnum opus on intonation, the summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection. The first volume, Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English, was published in 1986... -
Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture by Frank Hoffmann
RRP: £51.99£45.19An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radio Sports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that feature an all-sports format, with a focus on the unique... -
Words of the World: The Global Language System by Abram de Swaan
RRP: £55.00£47.73This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society.Book InformationISBN 9780745627472Author Abram de SwaanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Polity PressPublisher... -
Words - An Integrational Approach by Hayley G. Davis
RRP: £135.00£117.28Aims 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... -
Structural Factors in Turkic Language Contacts by Lars Johanson
RRP: £135.00£117.28Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in... -
Coordination in Syntax by Niina Ning Zhang
RRP: £100.00£83.39Coordination in syntax is an important part of the analysis of sentence structure. Niina Ning Zhang addresses the issues raised by coordinate pairings and the implications of these structures, looking in particular at examples within English and Chinese... -
Derivations in Minimalism by Samuel David Epstein
RRP: £42.99£37.16This pathbreaking study presents a new perspective on the role of derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed. Working within the Minimalist Program and focusing on English, the authors develop an original theory of generative... -
Rapid Stage 3: Reader Set (Series 2) by Alison Hawes
£56.42Each of the 112 reading books for NC P8 to NC Level 2 feature captivating stories, fantastic non-fiction and jokes. The books use a special dyslexia-friendly font and chunked text to support children. Book InformationISBN 9780435910532Author Alison...