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A Theology of Criticism: Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Imagination by Michael P. Murphy 9780195333527
RRP: $185.25$162.32A number of critics and scholars argue for the notion of a distinctly Catholic variety of imagination, not as a matter of doctrine or even of belief, but rather as an artistic sensibility. They figure the blend of intellectual, emotional, spiritual and... -
The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka by Christina P. Davis 9780190947477
RRP: $77.98$57.72In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language... -
Reimagining Rapport by Zane Goebel 9780190917074
RRP: $214.50$177.43Ethnography and ethnographic methods have increasingly become a feature of social inquiry. This new focus has prompted the adoption and regular use of "rapport" to evaluate the quality and robustness of research. Unlike its close kin,... -
Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present by Donald G. Nieman 9780190071639
RRP: $219.38$155.84Widely considered the first history of US Constitutionalism that places African Americans at the center, Promises to Keep is a compelling overview of how conflict over African Americans' place in American society has shaped the Constitution, law, and our... -
La Traduction spécialisée: Une approche professionnelle à l'enseignement de la traduction by Federica Scarpa 9782760306981
RRP: $87.65$70.49Cet ouvrage présente les fondements théoriques et les principes méthodologiques de la traduction spécialisée en général, et plus particulièrement de la traduction spécialisée de l'anglais vers le français.Book InformationISBN 9782760306981Author Federica... -
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction by Robin Wooffitt 9780761974253
$230.61`This is one of those books that, researchers, students and teachers want to have on their desks, because it answers questions, clarifies confusing areas, and provides accessible overviews of sometimes technical work - and all in prose that is... -
Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts by Sonia N. Das 9780190461782
RRP: $103.35$79.13Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants... -
'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language by Martin Putz 9783110185997
$231.62The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of... -
Tesol Teacher Education: A Reflective Approach by Thomas Farrell 9781474474429
$217.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474429Author Thomas FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Third Gender: Studies in the Origin and History of Germanic Grammatical Gender by Frederick W Schwink 9783825314156
$71.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825314156Author Frederick W SchwinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 1619g -
God and Sheikh Adi Are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition by Philip G Kreyenbroek 9783447053006
$160.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447053006Author Philip G KreyenbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena by Johannes J Van Dijk 9783447047074
RRP: $169.65$168.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447047074Author Johannes J Van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 213mm... -
Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson 9781575864129
RRP: $54.60$54.19With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of... -
The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation Through Indigenous Approaches to UX by Nora K Rivera 9781646425303
RRP: $38.90$37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425303Author Nora K RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press -
The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition: Thinking Through Space by Kelly S. Mix 9780199553242
$226.41This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. It proceeds from the notion that cognition in real time, developmental time, and over evolutionary time occurs in space, and that the physical properties... -
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable by Geoffrey Sampson 9780199545216
$100.25This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most... -
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures by Norvin Richards 9780198241171
$124.23This book is the most comprehensive, integrated explanatory account yet published of the properties of question formations and their variation across languages. It makes an important contribution to the current debate over whether syntax should be... -
Hellenistic Poetry by G. O. Hutchinson 9780198140405
$100.25The work of the Hellenistic poets in the third century BC has not only an important place in Greek literature, but also a particular significance for Latin poetry. Despite much technical work on the texts and language of these authors - Theocritus,... -
Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 by Helena Sanson 9780197264836
$197.63This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from the codification of Italian as a literary language to the... -
Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199271085
RRP: $185.25$125.40This 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... -
Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future by Andrew Dalby 9780231129008
$83.67Every two weeks the world loses another indigenous language. Evolving over hundreds or even thousands of years, distinct languages are highly complex and extremely adaptable, but they are also more fragile and endangered than we might expect. Of the... -
Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics by Sally McConnell-Ginet 9780195187809
RRP: $183.30$160.15This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners;... -
Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conflict and Displacement by Yasir Suleiman 9780199747016
RRP: $124.80$108.03Arabic, Self, and Identity uses autoethnography, autobiography, and a detailed study of names to investigate the links between conflict and displacement, and between the Self and group identity. In the process it raises questions about trauma and... -
Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation by Guy Deutscher 9780198299882
RRP: $122.85$113.41Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. It exists in written record between 2500BC and 500BC, much of it in letters and reports concerned with domestic and business matters, and written in colloquial... -
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars by John H. McWhorter 9780195309805
RRP: $161.85$143.68Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak,... -
Mind Design and Minimal Syntax by Wolfram Hinzen 9780199274413
RRP: $46.78$44.40This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces... -
Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity by Dennis P. Waters 9780367708399
RRP: $263.25$228.70Behavior and Culture in One Dimension adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences, their functions and an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity. Sequences of DNA guide the functioning of the... -
Course in General Linguistics by Laura E. B. Key 9781912302857
RRP: $38.98$34.50Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics is one of the most influential texts of the 20th-century - an astonishing feat for what is, at heart, a series of deeply technical lectures about the structure of human languages. What the Course's... -
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition by Marianne Gullberg 9781405155427
RRP: $81.80$71.62This volume explores the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition from the perspectives of critical/sensitive periods, maturational effects, individual differences, neural regions involved, and processing characteristics. The research... -
Names, Naming, and the Law: Onomastics, Identity, Power, and Policy by I. M. Nick 9781032556413
RRP: $263.25$229.48Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & products, and even diseases. This innovative volume investigates the relationship between names and the law, with... -
Restrictive Language Policy in Practice: English Learners in Arizona by Amy J. Heineke 9781783096411
RRP: $194.90$161.50As the most restrictive language policy context in the United States, Arizona's monolingual and prescriptive approach to teaching English learners continues to capture international attention. More than five school years after initial implementation,... -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction by Peter Stockwell 9781138781368
RRP: $263.25$229.48A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this seminal text features: * updated theory, frameworks, and... -
Life as a Bilingual: Knowing and Using Two or More Languages by Francois Grosjean 9781108838641
RRP: $146.23$132.85About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary... -
Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner by Svetlana Vetchinnikova 9781108499804
RRP: $214.50$192.54Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on just one end of the scale: fairly fixed, conventional multi-word units. Here their special status and any divergence from the... -
Introducing Language in the Workplace by Bernadette Vine 9781108498944
RRP: $165.73$146.06Assuming no prior linguistics background, this introductory textbook summarises key topics and issues from workplace discourse research in a clear and accessible manner. The topics covered include how people issue directives, use humour and social talk,... -
Python for Linguists by Michael Hammond 9781108493444
RRP: $185.25$166.63Specifically designed for linguists, this book provides an introduction to programming using Python for those with little to no experience of coding. Python is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages as it's also available for free... -
Lessons from Good Language Teachers by Carol Griffiths 9781108489263
RRP: $183.30$165.69What makes a good language teacher? This up-to-date, practical book addresses that question from a 'human' perspective, recognising that teachers are not just machines, but have feelings, needs and identities of their own. As the twenty-two topics of the... -
Ontologies of English: Conceptualising the Language for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment by Christopher J. Hall 9781108482530
RRP: $214.50$193.32In applied linguistics, being explicit about ontologies of English, and how they underpin educational ideologies and professional practices, is essential. For the first time, this volume presents a critical examination of the ways in which English is... -
Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics by Peter Trudgill 9781108477390
RRP: $130.65$116.84Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter... -
How Second Languages are Learned: An Introduction by Roger Hawkins 9781108475037
RRP: $120.88$106.08A comprehensive introduction to how people learn second languages (L2s), this textbook approaches the topic through five problems the L2 learner has to solve: 'breaking into' the L2; associating forms with meanings; learning sentence structure; learning...