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Language, Culture and Knowledge in Context: A Functional-Cognitive Approach by Brian Nolan
$53.84This volume investigates the nature of language, culture, knowledge, and context, and their interrelationships. Each of these is defined - in terms of their relationship to language in particular, and to identify their respective properties. What exactly... -
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction by Lynda Mugglestone
RRP: $17.53$12.58Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a... -
Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style by Peter Schubert
RRP: $247.63$97.99An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint... -
The Foundations of Gentry Life: The Multons of Frampton and their World 1270-1370 by Peter Coss
RRP: $52.63$47.29In The Foundations of Gentry Life, Peter Coss examines the formative years of the English gentry. In doing so, he explains their lasting characteristics during a long history as a social elite, including adaptability to change and openness to upward... -
Arabic Language and Linguistics by Reem Bassiouney 9781589018853
RRP: $78.00$68.02Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich... -
Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery
$166.45How 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... -
Understanding Phonetics by Patricia Ashby
RRP: $74.08$67.70Assuming little or no background knowledge and using original examples and exercises (with answers supplied), Understanding Phonetics provides you with an accessible introduction to the basics of phonetics and a comprehensive analysis of traditional... -
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
RRP: $35.10$34.30"A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski's dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg."-Kirkus Reviews "A delightful look at the inquiring mind."-Library... -
Experimental Translation: The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production by Lily Robert-Foley 9781913380700
RRP: $68.25$43.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380700Author Lily Robert-FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonWeight(grams)... -
Four Major Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $17.53$12.58`I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish... -
The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture by Peter V. Jones 9780521386005
RRP: $56.53$56.12The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, it covers all aspects of the city - its... -
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit by James Paul Gee 9780415725583
RRP: $77.98$68.37This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with... -
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.' Simon... -
Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic by Andreas Musolff 9781138810037
RRP: $105.28$91.40This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the... -
Gods in the Word: Archetypes in the Consonants by Margaret Magnus 9781453824443
RRP: $19.50$17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453824443Author Margaret MagnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 152g -
That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language by Matthew Engel
RRP: $21.43$15.33Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do... -
Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice by Roger T. Bell 9780582016484
$94.07Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of... -
The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Margaret Kelleher 9781910820421
RRP: $35.10$33.21The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Professor Kelleher takes the Maamtrasna case - one that... -
Contemporary Morphological Theories: A User's Guide by Thomas W. Stewart
RRP: $50.68$44.28In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition of this concept (or network of related concepts). Many perspectives are needed in order to gain even a... -
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics: A Syntactic, Semantic and Stylistic Analysis by Hussein Abdul-Raof 9780367874674
RRP: $77.98$68.37New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: $40.93$37.09Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual... -
Irish/Ness is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland by Olaf Zenker 9781785332067
RRP: $54.50$44.03Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language,... -
HOI: Your New Swiss German Survival Guide by Sergio J. Lievano 9783905252675
RRP: $50.68$32.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905252675Author Sergio J. LievanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bergli Books LtdPublisher Bergli Books Ltd -
English for Academic Purposes: An Advanced Resource Book by Ken Hyland 9780415358705
RRP: $85.78$75.74Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides... -
Register Variation Online by Douglas Biber
RRP: $60.43$51.54While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google... -
Read and write Greek script: Teach yourself by Sheila Hunt
RRP: $33.13$22.50Master Greek script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Greek script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it... -
Modern Languages – Why It Matters by K Kohl
RRP: $19.48$17.45It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers,... -
Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith
RRP: $52.63$37.91Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human... -
Succeed in TEFL - Continuing Professional Development: Teaching English as a Foreign Language with Teach Yourself by David Riddell
RRP: $29.23$19.11The ultimate guide for developing your career as an English teacher.Succeed in TEFL is packed with information on how to develop within the profession including chapters on:-getting the most out of observations-teaching exam classes-becoming a trainer... -
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us by Nicholas Evans
RRP: $56.45$48.89The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores... -
The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alphabet by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
RRP: $38.98$29.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879045002Author Lawrence KushnerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingDimensions(mm) 152mm *... -
Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts by Aneta Pavlenko
RRP: $48.65$42.00The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in... -
Plato Respublica by S. R. Slings
$50.58This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors; translations into Coptic, Arabic and Hebrew. The three... -
The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm Coulthard 9780367531225
RRP: $85.78$76.91The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics offers a comprehensive survey of the subdiscipline of Forensic Linguistics, with this new edition providing both updated overviews from leading figures in the field and exciting new contributions from the... -
Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words... -
The Frameworks of English: Introducing Language Structures by Kim Ballard
RRP: $64.33$58.19How does English work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The fourth edition of this popular textbook takes the reader on a step-by-step journey through the various levels of language, covering all the linguistic frameworks... -
An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in England by Joan C. Beal
RRP: $38.98$32.02Are the dialects of England disappearing in the wake of globalisation and 'Estuary English', or are geographical differences as strong as ever? Joan Beal looks at recent research into regional variation in England, discusses the evidence for 'dialect... -
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $25.33$19.29Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he... -
The Language of Sport by Adrian Beard
RRP: $44.83$39.31The Language of Sport:* looks in detail at the language of sports-talk including commentary and 'new sportswriting'* explores linguistic representation of related issues such as gender, national/regional identity* examines the way sport sells itself as... -
The Dialects of England by Peter Trudgill
RRP: $60.35$53.53This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern.About the AuthorPeter Trudgill is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. His interest in dialects...