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Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence by Rice, Jenny 9780814255797
£34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255797Author Rice, JennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
An Introduction to Contact Linguistics by Donald Winford
RRP: £38.95£34.60This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics.Examines a wide range of... -
The Handbook of Linguistics by Mark Aronoff 9781119302070
RRP: £37.95£34.36"The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections, balancing coverage of enduring questions and important recent... -
Semantics in Generative Grammar by Irene Heim
RRP: £36.95£32.91Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.About the AuthorIrene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of... -
Language and Identity: An introduction by John Edwards 9780521696029
RRP: £38.99£32.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice by William Grabe 9781108793704
RRP: £29.99£26.34Understanding reading abilities and their development is fundamental for language comprehension and human cognition. Now in its second edition, this book draws on research from multiple disciplines to explain reading abilities in both L1 and L2, and... -
Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language by David Crystal 9780199585854
RRP: £16.99£12.94What do the following have in common? Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James... -
Languages Are Good For Us by Sophie Hardach
RRP: £9.99£7.11This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and... -
Translation Sites: A Field Guide by Sherry Simon
RRP: £37.99£33.38In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as... -
Oxford English: An International Approach, Book 2 by Rachel Redford
RRP: £24.99£23.26This new course provides students and teachers with current, meaningful, and practical activities along a thematic approach to help students to develop skills, gain confidence and enjoy the study of English. Each book provides reading, writing,... -
Expert Proficiency Student's Resource Book with Key by Megan Roderick
RRP: £27.59£27.32The Student's Resource Book supports students by giving them extensive additional material that enables students to consolidate and enrich their language and practise exam skills. If you would like access to these materials please contact your local... -
Does Spelling Matter? by Simon Horobin 9780199665280
RRP: £38.99£38.86This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today. While good spelling is seen as socially and... -
Translating Texts: An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation by Brian James Baer
RRP: £37.99£33.38Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step-by-step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Covering a variety of text types, including business letters, recipes, and museum guides in six languages (Chinese,... -
The Happiness Dictionary: Words from Around the World to Help Us Lead a Richer Life by Dr Tim Lomas
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Indeed, without such a word, it's difficult to remember or understand the feeling, and to talk about it with... -
Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics by Keith Johnson 9781405194662
RRP: £27.95£24.25Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. Newly updated to reflect the latest... -
Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice by Tony McEnery 9780521547369
RRP: £39.99£34.63Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the... -
The Patterns of Comics: Visual Languages of Comics from Asia, Europe, and North America by Dr Neil Cohn 9781350381643
£27.99Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it's easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in... -
Phonological Awareness, Second Edition: From Research to Practice by Gail T. Gillon 9781462532889
£34.08Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling. It clearly... -
West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country by Urszula Clark
RRP: £27.99£26.01This book focuses on the varieties of Birmingham and the industrial heartland of the Black Country. This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial... -
Language and Symbolic Systems by Yuen Ren Chao 9780521094573
RRP: £38.99£32.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language by Janet Brennan Croft 9780786428274
RRP: £24.99£20.29Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have... -
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by Professor of Linguistics John McWhorter 9781592407200
RRP: £24.00£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407200Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings by Paul H. Portner
RRP: £42.95£37.97Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.About the Author Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary... -
Tins on a Till: Phase 2 Set 4 Blending practice (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised) by Roisin Leahy 9780008668204
RRP: £4.75£4.71Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that... -
Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy: A Journey through Meaning by Kasia M. Jaszczolt
RRP: £27.99£24.67Semantics and pragmatics - the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively - are two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how meaning is created. However, their theoretical ideas are often... -
From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic by Don Ringe 9780198792581
RRP: £117.50£113.32This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language... -
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad by Jonathan Rosa 9780190634735
RRP: £39.99£26.43Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public... -
Good to Talk?: Living and Working in a Communication Culture by Deborah Cameron 9780761957713
RRP: £35.99£29.51It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about... -
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £39.99£33.26This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Chomsky cuts through the confusion and prejudice which has infected the... -
Language, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction by Scott F. Kiesling
RRP: £25.99£24.31Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality, as well as an overview of how speakers use language to create and display... -
Approaches to Media Discourse by Allan Bell 9780631198888
RRP: £38.95£34.20This collection brings together in one volume current leading approaches to the study of media discourse.About the AuthorAllan Bell is affiliated as a Senior Research Fellow to the Linguistics Programme, Department of English, University of Auckland. He... -
The Development of Old English by Don Ringe
£48.66This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern... -
An Introduction to English Phonetics by Richard Ogden 9781474411769
£23.00The second edition of this best selling textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is pronounced around the world. Assuming no prior knowledge, it guides the reader... -
Market Leader Grammar & Usage Book New Edition by Peter Strutt
RRP: £30.79£30.37Business Grammar and Usage provides business grammar and practice and supports students in their studies.Book InformationISBN 9781408220085Author Peter StruttFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pearson LongmanPublisher Pearson Education... -
Oxford International Primary English Student Book 6 by Izabella Hearn 9780198388845
RRP: £20.99£19.69Level 6 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... -
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker 9780826477255
£43.02This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including:... -
Nelson Grammar Workbook 1A Year 1/P2 Pack of 10 by Wendy Wren 9781408523940
£22.08Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.A step-by-step grammar course for the new curriculumBook InformationISBN 9781408523940Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University... -
Research Methods in Language Attitudes by Ruth Kircher
RRP: £29.99£26.34Attitudes towards spoken, signed, and written language are of significant interest to researchers in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication studies, and social psychology. This is the first interdisciplinary guide to traditional and... -
Language and the Internet by David Crystal 9780521868594
RRP: £38.99£30.34In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity... -
The Essential Hyland: Studies in Applied Linguistics by Ken Hyland
£33.77Writing in the academy has assumed huge importance in recent years as countless students and academics around the world must now gain fluency in the conventions of academic writing in English to understand their disciplines, to establish their careers or...