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Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide by Janet Holmes 9780470673614
RRP: £41.95£36.73This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions,... -
The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies by Jeremy Munday 9780415396417
RRP: £28.99£25.09The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies brings together clear, detailed essays from leading international scholars on major areas in Translation Studies today.This accessible and authoritative guide offers fresh perspectives on linguistics,... -
Straightforward 2nd Edition Pre-Intermediate Level Workbook with key & CD Pack by Matthew Jones 9780230423169
RRP: £19.80£19.57The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for homework. This version comes with the key. READING/LISTENING - All Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on... -
Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis by Florian Coulmas 9780521787376
RRP: £38.99£34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Pragmatics of Politeness by Geoffrey Leech 9780195341355
RRP: £59.00£40.03This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British... -
Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39 by Patrick Sims-Williams 9781405145701
RRP: £22.99£20.56An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas. Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geographyUses a dataset of... -
Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning by David I. Beaver 9781405112642
£43.25Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show... -
Pragmatics: A Resource Book for Students by Joan Cutting
RRP: £35.99£31.69Routledge 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... -
Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will by David Wallace 9780231151573
RRP: £16.99£12.19In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations... -
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World by Naomi S. Baron 9780199735440
RRP: £24.49£16.66In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies-including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we... -
Language: Its Structure and Use by Edward Finegan 9781285052458
£70.71Whatever you do and wherever you go, you use language to interact. This text explains what human language is and how it works, giving you a look into the multiple fascinating and surprising facets of this uniquely human trait. You ll find many... -
New Headway: Elementary Third Edition: Teacher's Book: Six-level general English course for adults by John Soars
£43.74The book gives you full notes for teaching the material effectively, plus lesson hints and suggestions. There are 'possible problems' boxes too, which draw your attention to the mistakes students might make. Stop and Check sections and... -
Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language by Wendy Ayres-Bennett 9780582293465
RRP: £54.99£52.88Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different... -
A Student Grammar of Spanish by Ron Batchelor 9780521670777
RRP: £35.99£32.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language by Kate Burridge 9780521548328
RRP: £30.99£26.77English is the most creative, changeable and imaginative of languages. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old. Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with... -
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology by Patrick Honeybone 9780198814139
RRP: £40.99£40.49This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality and some... -
Introduction to Natural Language Semantics by Henriette de Swart 9781575861388
RRP: £20.50£19.86This introduction is concerned with the semantics of natural languages. The text examines what issues semantics, as a theory of meaning, should address: determining what the meanings of words of the language are and how to semantically combine elements... -
An Introduction to Language Policy: Theory and Method by Thomas Ricento 9781405114981
RRP: £38.95£34.20An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field. provides an accessible introduction to the study of language... -
Introduction to Phonology by Francis Katamba
RRP: £65.99£58.62This book is an introduction to phonological theory placed within the framework of recent mainstream generative phonology. The book is divided into two main parts. The first introduces readers to basic concepts of articulatory phonetics, classical... -
Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199271092
RRP: £52.00£40.49This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and... -
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories by Kathryn Petras
RRP: £12.99£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581274Author Kathryn PetrasFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Texts and Practices Revisited: Essential Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
RRP: £36.99£32.53This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice. Critical discursive... -
Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview by Celia Roberts 9781845537692
RRP: £26.95£25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845537692Author Celia RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)Publisher Equinox Publishing (Indonesia) -
Mood and Modality by F. R. Palmer
RRP: £40.99£35.21Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's first edition of Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of 'modality' was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is... -
Sociolinguistics by R. A. Hudson 9780521565141
RRP: £39.99£35.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis by Ann Wennerstrom 9780195143225
RRP: £89.00£66.27Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which... -
Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language by Daniel Heller-Roazen
RRP: £22.00£16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005. 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781890951504Author Daniel Heller-RoazenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Zone... -
Old English: Grammar and Reader by Robert E. Diamond 9780814315101
RRP: £25.95£23.33This book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West... -
Style: Language Variation and Identity by Nikolas Coupland
RRP: £34.99£29.35Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It... -
Healthcare Interpreting Explained by Claudia V. Angelelli
RRP: £37.99£33.38Healthcare Interpreting Explained is the first comprehensive user-friendly book on the practice of medical/healthcare interpreting. Written by a leading world authority and drawing on research carried out in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia,... -
English Words: A Linguistic Introduction by Heidi Harley
RRP: £33.95£29.98English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English words, and the... -
Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations by Allen D. Grimshaw 9780521335508
RRP: £44.99£38.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity by Jan Blommaert
RRP: £19.95£17.80Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity... -
Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching by Mike Long
RRP: £48.00£43.03This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. * Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA)... -
A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL: Putting Pluriliteracies into Practice by Do Coyle
RRP: £22.99£19.96If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is... -
Key Terms in Stylistics by Nina Norgaard 9780826419484
£27.40This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts and thinkers in stylistics. Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. "Key Terms in... -
Straightforward 2nd Edition Intermediate Level Workbook with key & CD Pack by Philip Kerr 9780230423268
RRP: £19.80£19.57The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for homework. This version comes with the key. READING/LISTENING - All Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on... -
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 9780812982404
RRP: £18.00£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982404Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed by John Collins 9780826486639
£38.14" Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject... -
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture by Geoffrey Hughes 9781405152792
RRP: £33.95£29.98Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that...