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The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison 9780521785716 [USED COPY]
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The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison
RRP: $44.83$38.14Human 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: $81.80$71.62Language 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: $68.23$59.14Are 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: $72.13$63.43Cyclical 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: $175.48$175.25Linguists 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: $175.48$175.25This 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
$32.33Apologies 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: $175.40$136.34This 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: $39.00$27.96Apologies 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: $74.08$67.37Apologies 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: $224.23$203.58Eugenio 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: $185.25$166.63This 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: $136.50$123.45Bitch 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
$49.63The 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: $42.90$30.11Input 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: $97.48$97.21Input 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
$79.09Spoken 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: $48.75$43.95This 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
RRP: $189.13$111.91Designed 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
$201.18Words 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: $68.15$41.93Language 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: $126.73$85.18The 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: $68.23$43.78This 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: $89.68$57.62This 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: $103.33$67.06This 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... -
A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II by James McElvenny 9781474470018
RRP: $234.00$214.75Takes a sociological approach to the history of linguistics Offers a concise history of modern linguistics up to World War II Examines the connections between linguistics and neighbouring fields, including philosophy, psychology and anthropology Focuses... -
Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods by Paul Drew 9780761957041
RRP: $284.70$230.61'This book admirably fulfils its stated objective of describing social research methods in action and exploring, from a range of perspectives, the linguistic shaping of social context. Overall, this is a balanced, well-edited and coherent collection of... -
Explanatory Models in Linguistics: A Behavioral Perspective by Pere Julia 9780691641331
RRP: $202.80$188.97Pere Julia questions the recourse of contemporary linguists, psycholinguists, and philosophers to an idealized speaker-listener and maintains that there is no way to be sure of the organizing principles for linguistic data other than going to the sources... -
The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language by Hagi Kenaan 9780231133500
RRP: $126.75$124.53Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. Hagi Kenaan argues that... -
Paths to Post-Nationalism: A Critical Ethnography of Language and Identity by Monica Heller 9780199746866
RRP: $124.80$108.03Nationalism informs our ideas about language, culture, identity, nation, and State-ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging new economy. As language, culture, and identity are commodified, multilingualism becomes a factor in the... -
Teleosemantics by Graham MacDonald 9780199270262
$203.33Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state... -
Reflections on Meaning by Paul Horwich 9780199251254
$87.69Paul Horwich, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers, develops in this book his highly original deflationary conception of language. His main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are... -
Functional Features in Language and Space: Insights from Perception, Categorization, and Development by Laura Carlson 9780199264322
$182.52The notions of 'function', 'feature' and 'functional feature' are associated with relatively new developments and insights in several areas of cognition. This book brings together different definitions, insights and research related to defining these... -
The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis by Jason Merchant 9780199243730
$115.56A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning correspondence breaks down completely in the case of ellipsis, and yet various forms of... -
Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English by Tim William Machan 9780199232123
$156.62This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting... -
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume II: Tutor of Oriel, January 1827 to December 1831 by Cardinal John Henry Newman 9780199201082
$226.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199201082Author Cardinal John Henry NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 884g -
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume I: Ealing, Trinity, Oriel, February 1801 to December 1826 by John Henry Newman 9780199201020
$226.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199201020Author John Henry NewmanFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 807g -
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity: Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe by John Considine 9780198785019
$214.91Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were... -
Complete Plays: III. Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Catiline by Ben Jonson 9780198126027
$139.35A scholarly edition of plays by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198126027Author Ben JonsonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint...