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Four Words for Friend: Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever by Marek Kohn
RRP: £14.99£14.85A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today's world In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume that the need to use more than one language... -
Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family by Xiao-Lei Wang
RRP: £17.95£13.14This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual... -
The Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Anna De Fina 9781119052142
RRP: £48.95£43.03Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published. Organized thematically to provide an accessible... -
Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton 9780195172843
RRP: £22.49£16.77Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That... -
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children by Marilyn J. Adams
£33.36Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in... -
What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything by Philippe Schlenker
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047432Author Philippe SchlenkerFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Irony and Sarcasm by Roger Kreuz
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538268Author Roger KreuzFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm -
The Ultimate English Literature Admissions Test Guide: Techniques, Strategies, and Mock Papers by Dr Jenny Harris 9781912557783
RRP: £30.00£27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912557783Author Dr Jenny HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint RAR Medical ServicesPublisher UniAdmissionsWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis by Lilie Chouliaraki
RRP: £31.00£28.69Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the... -
Orthodox Christianity Volume II: Doctrine and Teaching of the Orthodox Church by Ilarion Metropolitan of Volokolamsk 1966- 9780881414615
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881414615Author MetropolFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis by Theo Van Leeuwen 9780195323313
RRP: £40.99£28.38Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together Van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, Van Leeuwen... -
Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language by Peter Trudgill
RRP: £24.99£20.94Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable phenomenon which not enough people know enough about. The second is that we should... -
Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction by Vivian J. Cook
RRP: £33.95£30.38The 3rd edition of Chomsky's Universal Grammar introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. Updated and revised to include a broader range of issues and... -
New English File: Intermediate: Workbook: Six-level general English course for adults by Clive Oxenden
£28.54Lesson-by-lesson revision and practice for students - the Workbook includes grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation activities for every lesson.Get your intermediate students talkingBook InformationISBN 9780194518048Author Clive OxendenFormat... -
The Truth About Language: What it is and Where it Came from by Michael C. Corballis
RRP: £26.00£21.70Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the products... -
Vulgar Latin by Jozsef Herman
RRP: £29.95£26.91"Vulgar Latin" refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although "Vulgar Latin" is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and... -
Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology by Leslie L. Iversen
RRP: £62.00£42.63Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology expands on the molecular and cellular foundations of the classic Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology, Eighth Edition (Cooper, Bloom, and Roth) by now including the behavioral methods used to study psychoactive... -
The AI Revolution in Chess by Joshua Doknjas 9781781945988
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 2018 DeepMind published the shocking results of their chess-playing artificial intelligence software, AlphaZero. Chess players looked in disbelief and immediately wondered how AI would affect the future of chess. Less than a year later, a whole new... -
An Idiot's Love of Idioms 2 by Nick Smethurst
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398454781Author Nick SmethurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Intonation and Its Parts: Melody in Spoken English by Dwight Bolinger
RRP: £81.00£64.85"It's not what she said, it's the way that she said it," is a complaint we have all heard (or made) some time or another. What does it refer to? It obviously relates to the various forms of wordless communication, but especially to the speaker's use of... -
Corpora in Applied Linguistics by Susan Hunston 9781108441186
RRP: £27.99£23.61Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a thorough introduction to all the key research issues in Corpus Linguistics,... -
Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality by Anna Livia 9780195104714
RRP: £63.00£49.76Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw... -
The Development of Logic by William Kneale 9780198247739
RRP: £57.00£47.57The primary purpose of this book has not been to recount all that past scholars have said about the science, but rather to record the first appearances of those ideas which seem most important in the logic of our own day.Book InformationISBN... -
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming by Carole Hough
£41.09In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient... -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Grace Darling by Tim Vicary
£10.87"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.This is the true story of Grace Darling - a girl who became a... -
Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins by Rudolf Botha
RRP: £100.00£85.36Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble that of early modern humans in important ways. However, the existence and nature of Neanderthal language... -
Code-switching by Penelope Gardner-Chloros
RRP: £36.99£30.33It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as code-switching, has become a major focus of attention in linguistics. This... -
Attitudes and Languages by Colin Baker 9781853591426
RRP: £24.95£21.99The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original... -
Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction by Geoffrey S. Nathan 9789027219084
RRP: £21.00£20.95This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive... -
Intonation and Meaning by Daniel Buring 9780199226276
RRP: £37.49£36.59This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by... -
Learning Vocabulary in Another Language by I. S. P. Nation
RRP: £39.99£34.63Vocabulary is now well recognized as an important focus in language teaching and learning. Now in its third edition, this book provides an engaging, authoritative guide to the teaching and learning of vocabulary in another language. It contains... -
Gimson's Pronunciation of English by Alan Cruttenden
RRP: £49.99£45.14Since its first publication in 1962, Gimson's Pronunciation of English has been the essential reference book for anyone studying or teaching the pronunciation of English.This eighth edition has been updated to describe General British (GB) as the... -
The Physics of Speech by D. B. Fry 9780521293792
RRP: £38.99£34.36The mechanism of speech is a very complex one and in order to undertake any analysis of language it is important to understand the processes that go to make up the message that a speaker transmits and a listener receives. Professor Fry therefore first... -
The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gardenfors 9780262533751
£35.64A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Applied Linguistics by Susan Conrad
RRP: £34.99£31.34Written by a global team, this up-to-date introduction to applied linguistics helps students learn what it's like to do applied linguistics, and not just read about theoretical concepts. First, it provides frameworks for understanding both the shared... -
Understanding Language Change by April M. S. McMahon 9780521446655
RRP: £40.99£36.46How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will be accessible to all students with an elementary... -
The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading by David R. Olson 9780521575584
RRP: £63.99£52.78What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? In this historical and developmental account, David Olson offers a new perspective on this process. Reversing the traditional assumption about... -
Language and the Brain by K.Gjerlow- Johnson 9780521466417
RRP: £38.99£34.36How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This concise and accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break... -
EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse: Textbooks, Practice, and Policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel by Muzna Awayed-Bishara 9781138308817
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book offers unique insight into the role that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) discourse plays in shaping the ideological terrain of contemporary Israel/Palestine through constructing the subjectivities of those who plan, teach, and learn it. ... -
Doing Linguistics with a Corpus: Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User by Jesse Egbert
RRP: £17.00£14.72Paradoxically, doing corpus linguistics is both easier and harder than it has ever been before. On the one hand, it is easier because we have access to more existing corpora, more corpus analysis software tools, and more statistical methods than ever...