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Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics consists of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, designed for those entering postgraduate studies and language professionals returning to academic study. The books...

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief...

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as...

Designed to acquaint the reader with the field of phonology -- the study of the systems of linguistically significant sounds -- this book begins with a brief introduction to linguistics and a discussion of phonology's place within that field. It then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803214613Author Jean Ormsbee CharneyFormat HardbackPage Count 273Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams)...

Pocket Facts is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Sci-Fi, Pocket Tales and Pocket Chillers making up the rest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780582871816Author Roslyn PetelinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 440g

'Stolen Language?' uncovers the reasons why students plagiarize, and explains what can be done about it. It challenges the concepts of original authorship and ownership of language and shows that plagiarism is a complex and contested subject.About the...

Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling...

My Gulf World and Me is an exciting and culturally appropriate new series of non-fiction readers about the Gulf region written especially for primary ESL learners. Written specifically for the Gulf region, these readers contain culturally appropriate...

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...

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 and key...

This book looks at today's most advanced technology and shows how it may be used in the future to help us to get about! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for...

The super-villain, Tremor, plans to use her shock-waves to kill thousands of people. Can the agents come up with a plan to stop her?Book InformationISBN 9780435070809Author Diana BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson...

Rigby Rocket offers a wide range of engaging stories and non-fiction texts. Written by much-loved children's authors, the books have been expertly levelled to ensure your children are able to read them independently.Book InformationISBN...

Poptropica is a virtual world where you can explore, meet friends, play games, and win medallions. This book is a guide to the whole world of Poptropica which will make you a bit of an expert and give you a couple of secret tips too! Part of the Bug Club...

In clear, engaging photographs this book shows all the fun that a girl and her mum have during a day at the beach. There is plenty to talk about in the photos, including sun safety and a range of beach activities. Part of the Bug Club reading series used...

This book explores what makes us laugh and shares some funny facts about laughter as well as some jokes! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children...

This book describes how we can re-grow our hair and nails when they are cut off. But some creatures can re-grow tails, antlers and even arms and legs! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency...

As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining...

The 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...

Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters. This book analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos...

The Diagnosis of Reading in a Second or Foreign Language explores the implications of language assessment research on classroom-based assessment practices by providing an in-depth look at the little-examined field of diagnosis in second and foreign...

From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the...

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional...

Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study of their current use in English. Its particular focus is on a...

It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal...

This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of 'metrolingualism', showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and...

Semantic 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...

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Pink-B level Daisy and Zac book: Daisy and Zac are fishing in a stream. Daisy catches a bug...

This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough description of a creole language to date. Following the Descriptive Grammar Series outline, it provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information,...

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we...

Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research explores how ethical issues are negotiated in different areas of language research, illustrating for graduate students in applied linguistics the ethical dilemmas they might encounter in the research methodology...

Quantitative 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...

Rigby Rocket offers a wide range of engaging stories and non-fiction texts. Written by much-loved children's authors, the books have been expertly levelled to ensure your children are able to read them independently.Book InformationISBN...

The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems, providing unified explanations of the observation that suffixes predominate over prefixes and the...

This 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...

Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar. The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving...

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: the history, development, and uses of...

The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and...