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Multilingual clients are different from monolingual clients. So writes Beverley Costa at the start of this groundbreaking book. Other Tongues challenges counsellors and psychotherapists to consider more deeply the tool that is central to their work -...

Are you looking for a complete course in Estonian which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Estonian will guarantee success!Do you want to develop a solid...

This singular new textbook is both an introduction to the major theories of second language acquisition and a practical proposal for their application to language learning courses. It explains and evaluates these theories, and focuses on recent research...

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres. It reflects three...

How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and...

This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than...

The home of trusted French dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable French to English and English to French reference dictionary for every day, including short grammars of French and English. The clear layout allows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845539269Author Alessandro BenatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1g

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go...

Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a...

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it...

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042840Author Jacob EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm

The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the Handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing...

Get the last word on English grammar Grasping the intricacies of the English language doesn't need to be tricky, and this down-to-earth guide breaks everything down in ways that make sense-Revealing rules, tips, and tricks to eliminate confusion and gain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419660696Author David H BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046718Author Noam ChomskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786236685Author Adam 'shuffle T' WoollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grosvenor House Publishing LimitedPublisher Grosvenor House Publishing...

Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787800525766Author Zhang PengpengFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 340g

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,...

A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is the only dictionary available with a primary focus on UK law enforcement terms. Succinct and practical in its approach, it contains over 3,400 entries covering ever aspect of this diverse field, including terms related...

Without writing, there would be no records, no history, no books, and no emails. Writing is an integral and essential part of our lives; but when did it start? Why do we all write differently and how did writing develop into what we use today? All of...

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation provides an accessible, diverse and extensive overview of literary translation today. This next-generation volume brings together principles, case studies, precepts, histories and process knowledge from...

This primer provides an introduction to the subject of surfaces at the level of undergraduates and first year postgraduates. There are three chapters, the first concerns basic thermodynamic material used to understand the properties of surfaces...

The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very...

The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.The linking of psychosomatic to...

Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines...

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Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.About the AuthorR.L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. A hugely...

One in five students are identified as speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL) and all teachers are highly likely to be teaching multilingual students in their classrooms. As our schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905703207Author Ross, SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Walking Tree PublicationPublisher Walking Tree PublicationWeight(grams)...

The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time...

Why do humans have such diverse cultures and ways of life? Michael Carrithers presents an original and powerful answer to this central problem of anthropology, arguing that it is the ways in which people interact, rather than technological advances, that...

From leading scholar and applied linguist Paul Nation, this book describes and explains the 20 most effective and efficient language teaching techniques and why they work. Backed by decades of research and expertise, Nation examines the principles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486424743Author Jacob GrimmFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)...

A handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great...

A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262133609Author Christopher ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm *...