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Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian, 1984-1996 by Noam Chomsky 9781642595741
RRP: £29.95£22.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595741Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books -
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor by Salvatore Attardo
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a... -
Arabic Language Handbook by Mary Catherine Bateson 9780878403868
£24.54The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that this "Arabic Language Handbook", complementing... -
Discourse Deixis in Metafiction: The Language of Metanarration, Metalepsis and Disnarration by Andrea MacRae
RRP: £45.99£40.13This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels. Building on existing scholarship in the field, the book begins by mapping out key themes and techniques in metafiction and... -
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison 9780521785716 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99£2.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison
RRP: £22.99£19.56Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and... -
Language Development and Language Impairment: A Problem-Based Introduction by Ciara O'Toole 9780470656440
RRP: £41.95£36.73Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which... -
Introducing English Linguistics by Charles F. Meyer
RRP: £34.99£30.33Are you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail? Introducing English Linguistics accomplishes this goal in two ways... -
The Linguistic Cycle: Economy and Renewal in Historical Linguistics by Elly van Gelderen 9781032224329
RRP: £36.99£32.53Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the... -
Language in the Legal Process by J. Cotterill 9781403933881
RRP: £89.99£89.87Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law and its participants, beginning with the role of the forensic linguist in legal proceedings, either as expert witness or in legal language reform... -
Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation: The Mask of Piety by Colin H. Williams 9781137000835
RRP: £89.99£89.87This is an analysis of the promises and contradictions surrounding contemporary minority language policy. It draws on theoretical and real-world perspectives and interviews with key players within European institutions together with field work undertaken... -
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J R Clark-Hall 9781617201875
£16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617201875Author J R Clark-HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
Raising Bilingual-Biliterate Children in Monolingual Cultures by Stephen J. Caldas 9781853598760
RRP: £89.95£69.92This book is a case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family beginning with their births and ending in late adolescence. The author and researcher is the children's French/English... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: with Selected Speeches Frederick Douglass 9780486853307
RRP: £20.00£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486853307Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) by Bruce McComiskey 9780814115442
RRP: £37.99£35.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814115442Author Bruce McComiskeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)Publisher National Council of... -
Eugenio Coseriu: Beyond Structuralism by Johannes Kabatek 9783110716153
RRP: £114.99£104.40Eugenio Coseriu counts among the most important linguistic scholars of the second half of the 20th century. He is known mainly as a structuralist and a Romance linguist, but his work is in fact far more expansive in scope, including a comprehensive... -
Cognitive Control along the Language Continuum Klara Marton 9781108834193
RRP: £95.00£85.45This book provides a comprehensive review of the interactions between language and cognitive control in children. Broadening its scope beyond specific dimensions of language and cognition, it provides an extensive review of the dynamic changes in... -
Bitch: The Journey of a Word Karen Stollznow 9781009392327
RRP: £70.00£63.31Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today—after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word-it's not always entirely clear what it means. Bitch is a chameleon. There are good bitches and bad bitches;... -
A Phonological History of Chinese Zhongwei Shen 9781316501658
£25.45The phonological history of Chinese can be traced back to two main traditions: one starting with the Qieyun of 601, and the other starting with the Zhongyuan Yinyun of 1324. The former marks the beginning of Middle Chinese, and the latter marks the... -
Input John Truscott 9781009065313
RRP: £22.00£15.44Input is the name of a topic – the way that language 'out there' impacts the development of interlanguage, within the individual. It is perhaps the most important aspect of second language learning. This Element offers an overview of the key concepts... -
Input John Truscott 9781009500890
RRP: £64.99£39.84Input is the name of a topic – the way that language 'out there' impacts the development of interlanguage, within the individual. It is perhaps the most important aspect of second language learning. This Element offers an overview of the key concepts... -
Materials for the Study of Gurung Pe, Volume II by Simon Strickland 9780674984332
£40.56Spoken in the middle hills of Nepal, Gurung is a Tibeto-Burmese language spread along the southern slopes of the Himalayas. The Nepalese Gurung recitations known as pe or pe-da lu-da form a diverse group of oral narratives and invocations, thought to... -
The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of the Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms by Galia Hatav 9780198840435
RRP: £25.00£22.54This volume includes two general chapters; the first of these chapters suggests a new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity. The second deals with modality within the approach of... -
Student Activity Manual for Nakama 1 Enhanced, Student text by Yukiko Abe Hatasa 9780357453308
£62.14Designed to reinforce the association of sound, syntax, and meaning, the SAM includes out-of-class practice of the material presented in the textbook. The Workbook section focuses on written vocabulary, grammar, kanji and writing practice. The Lab Manual... -
Longitudinal Developments in Vocabulary Knowledge and Lexical Organization by Brigitta Dóczi 9780190210274
£103.17Words are the building blocks of human communication and provide a strong foundation for the development of skilled language production and comprehension. Learning words in a language other than one's own requires long-term commitment and substantial... -
Language Acquisition in a Nutshell by Russell Simonsen 9781942544760
RRP: £34.95£22.07Language Acquisition in a Nutshell: A Primer for Teachers will be your definitive guide on second languages and how they are acquired. Written in an easy-to-understand tone with an occasional touch of light-heartedness, Language Acquisition in a Nutshell... -
Handbook of Foreign Language Communication and Learning by Karlfried Knapp 9783110260120
RRP: £64.99£43.68The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of academic enquiry. Applied Linguistics deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world... -
The Amazing World of Englishes: A Practical Introduction by Peter Siemund 9783110266450
RRP: £34.99£22.45This textbook invites you on a trip around the globe, uncovering layerby layer the complex, yet intriguing facets of English spoken world-wide. The busy streets of London, the scorched vistas of Australia, the colourful and noisy landscapes of New Delhi... -
Middle English by Laurel Brinton 9783110522761
RRP: £45.99£29.55This volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters on Middle English phonology morphology, syntax, and semantics... -
Investigations in Cognitive Grammar by Ronald W. Langacker 9783110214352
RRP: £52.99£34.39This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innovative papers, revised and integrated to form a coherent whole. This work continues the ongoing program of... -
Feature Logics, Infinitary Descriptions and Grammar by Bill Keller 9781881526254
£28.32Constraint and unification-based approaches to grammar have become increasingly popular in computational linguistics because of their flexibility and descriptive power. These approaches have developed an important notion of feature structures that play a... -
Formalizing the Dynamics of Information by Martina Faller 9781575862408
£30.62The papers collected in this volume exemplify some of the trends in current approaches to logic, language and computation. Written by authors with varied academic backgrounds, the contributions are intended for an interdisciplinary audience. The first... -
The Ontology of Language: Properties, Individuals and Discourse by Chris Fox 9781575862347
£27.82The book offers contributions to a number of topics in semantics, while at the same time providing an engaging discussion of key foundational issues and of what Property Theory can contribute to them. The book starts from a version of Property Theory... -
The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation Through Indigenous Approaches to UX by Nora K Rivera 9781646425297
RRP: £95.00£92.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425297Author Nora K RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 19 by Ho-Min Sohn 9781575866192
£79.05Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the... -
Arabic Computational Linguistics by Ali Farghaly 9781575865447
£39.26Arabic is an exciting - yet challenging - language for scholars because many of its linguistic properties have not been fully described. "Arabic Computational Linguistics" documents the recent work of researchers in both academia and industry who have... -
Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler by Manny Rayner 9781575865256
RRP: £65.00£64.06Most computer programs that analyze spoken dialogue use a spoken command grammar, which limits what the user can say when talking to the system. To make this process simpler, more automated, and effective for command grammars even at initial stages of a... -
Lexical Semantics in LFG by Miriam Butt 9781575865119
RRP: £70.00£69.21Available for the first time in years, "Lexical Semantics in LFG" is a reissue of the groundbreaking "Papers in Lexical Functional Grammar." It spans a diverse range of topics, including Italian unaccusatives, Malayalam causatives, derived nominals,... -
Flexible Semantics for Reinterpretation Phenomena by Markus Egg 9781575865027
£28.45Deriving the correct meaning of such colloquial expressions as "I am parked out back" requires a unique interaction of knowledge about the world with a person's natural language tools. In this volume, Markus Egg examines how natural language rules and... -
Flexible Semantics for Reinterpretation Phenomena by Markus Egg 9781575865010
RRP: £70.00£69.17Deriving the correct meaning of such colloquial expressions as "I am parked out back" requires a unique interaction of knowledge about the world with a person's natural language tools. In this volume, Markus Egg examines how natural language rules and...