Linguistics

Tourism is ideal for pre-work students, studying at pre-intermediate to upper-intermediate levels, who will need to use English in work situations. Tourism is divided into three levels: Provision, Encounters, and Management. Each of these levels develops...

If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From...

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking research in applied linguistics. Godfroid's research synthesis and methodological guide...

This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language...

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and...

New reading and listening texts bring the real world to the classroom New activities and tasks present, practise and extend the language in meaningful contexts New Study... Practise... Remember! sections combine study skills with consolidation to...

Innovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation provides a cutting-edge perspective on the latest challenges and innovations in language learning motivation, incorporating numerous examples and cases in mainstream psychology and in the field...

Level 3 of a 6 levelled new course that includes rich international content to teach reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills to first and second language learners. Step-by-step teaching scaffolding, clear learning objectives and...

English language and linguistics shares many of its writing conventions with those of other disciplines, but there are certain features and expectations that distinguish it as a subject. This book is written specifically to help undergraduate students of...

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese language has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene does...

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has...

The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic view of communication that fails to match the...

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, andinteraction of social institutions, introducing students to theresearch methodology of Conversation Analysis. * Features a unique focus on real-world applications of CA byexamining four institutional...

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. Two leading specialists make research and...

Language is not simply a tool for communication - symbolic power struggles underlie any speech act, discourse move, or verbal interaction, be it in face-to-face conversations, online tweets or political debates. This book provides a clear and accessible...

Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world...

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologist, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393953459Author Jerome S. BrunerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

This book is designed to ease the beginner into competent reading of Old English texts. It presents the essential points of Old English grammar and also includes a selection of short, relatively simple original language texts, glossed and annotated...

Your guide to current terms and concepts used in intelligence and security Arabic What is the Arabic term for 'sleeper cell'? How would you say 'hijacker'? Could you recognise the phrase 'operational planning'? Or 'money-laundering investigations'? This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985830899Author Colin WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. Volume 1 provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age;...

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...

80 pages of extra practice - one for each lesson in the Student's Book. The practice pages include grammar tables, writing exercises, practise and learn boxes, and review sections after every four lessons.One page - one lesson - one...

Common Mistakes in English takes more than 550 examples of typical errors (for example, words that are often confused, misused, or used with the wrong preposition) and offers a correct version and explanation that will help students avoid making the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539210Author Amy Rose DealFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range...

Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with technological developments. Despite such changes, the same basic needs remain as far as teacher education is...

What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is...

A collection of 10 essays on Early Welsh. Contents: The etymology of Welsh chwith and the semantics and morphology of PIE *k(w)sweibh- ( Peter Schrijver ); Rowynniauc , Rhufoniog : the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh ( Paul Russell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783171255Author Irene YatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Brilliant PublicationsPublisher Brilliant Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493733002Author Mark RosenfelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

An Introduction to English Grammar provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of English grammar. The first part of the book ('The Grammar') provides a step-by-step introduction to the key topics in English grammar. The second part ('The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547154Author Marina YaguelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'A poet's novel, delicate but strong' Hilary Mantel Maria and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. Maria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer,...

Everyone remembers the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis', but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do families, towns, countries and even football teams have Latin mottoes? What do the Latin epitaphs in churches...

The BBC's Advisory Committee on Spoken English was set up to provide an authoritative guide to pronunciation and the use of language for BBC announcers. The results of its deliberations were published for general consumption in a series of pamphlets...

The breadth and spread of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) indicate its usefulness for exploring language use within a social context. However, its theoretical foundations, limitations, and epistemological implications must be considered so that...

New reading and listening texts bring the real world to the classroom New activities and tasks present, practise and extend the language in meaningful contexts New Study... Practise... Remember! sections combine study skills with consolidation to...