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How Second Languages are Learned: An Introduction by Roger Hawkins 9781108475037
RRP: $130.18$114.24A 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... -
The Language of Inequality in the News: A Discourse Analytic Approach by Michael Toolan 9781108474337
RRP: $210.00$188.75Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the 1970s do the Daily Mail's TV reviews address serious contemporary themes such as class-... -
Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue by Monika Bednarek 9781108472227
RRP: $199.50$180.29This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue... -
Language, Space and Cultural Play: Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape by Lionel Wee 9781108472203
RRP: $210.00$188.75This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of structures of language and... -
SLA Applied: Connecting Theory and Practice by Brian John Tomlinson 9781108471824
RRP: $132.28$116.03This 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... -
Register, Genre, and Style by Douglas Biber 9781108426527
RRP: $231.00$208.19A fully updated and expanded second edition of this flagship work, which introduces methodological techniques to carry out analyses of text varieties, and provides descriptions of the most important text varieties in English. Part I introduces an... -
English around the World: An Introduction by Edgar W. Schneider 9781108425377
RRP: $167.98$148.24The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This textbook provides a lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, describing... -
Key Questions in Language Teaching: An Introduction by Alessandro G. Benati 9781108425247
RRP: $142.78$124.99Innovative and evidence-based, this introduction to the main concepts and issues in language teaching uses a 'key questions' structure, enabling the reader to understand how these questions have been addressed by researchers previously, and how the... -
Metaphors in the Mind: Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor by Jeannette Littlemore 9781108416566
RRP: $199.50$180.29Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to 'look back' on past events. Much of the work on embodied metaphor to date has... -
The Language of Humor: An Introduction by Don L. F. Nilsen 9781108416542
RRP: $231.00$208.19Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the world's leading pioneers in humor studies, Alleen and Don Nilsen, explore how humor can be... -
Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories: Raiding the Inarticulate by Nigel Duffield 9781108404648
RRP: $73.48$64.03In a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories of Psycholinguistics, which is concerned with how speakers use the languages they control, as well as with how such control is acquired in the... -
Speech Communities by Marcyliena H. Morgan 9781107678149
RRP: $56.68$47.88What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an... -
Bilingualism in Action: Theory and Practice by Luna Filipovic 9781108470353
RRP: $199.50$179.45Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alone. Bringing together key insights from psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, Luna Filipovic presents a... -
Bilingualism in Action: Theory and Practice by Luna Filipovic 9781108455909
RRP: $56.68$47.88Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alone. Bringing together key insights from psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, Luna Filipovic presents a... -
The Culture of Singapore English by Jock O. Wong 9781107033245
RRP: $210.00$189.59This book provides a fresh approach to Singapore English, by focusing on its cultural connotations. The author, a native Singaporean, explores a range of aspects of this rich variety of English - including address forms, cultural categories, particles... -
Writing and Society: An Introduction by Florian Coulmas 9781107016422
RRP: $105.00$94.46How does writing relate to speech? What impact does it have on social organisation and development? How do unwritten languages differ from those that have a written form and tradition? This book is a general account of the place of writing in society... -
Language Regard: Methods, Variation and Change by James Stanford 9781107162808
RRP: $210.00$189.59Bringing together a team of renowned international scholars, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard, particularly in the context of language variation and language change, and... -
Religious Talk Online: The Evangelical Discourse of Muslims, Christians, and Atheists by Stephen Pihlaja 9781107157415
RRP: $210.00$188.75In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. Stephen Pihlaja investigates how several prominent social media figures present views about religion in an environment where their positions are challenged. The... -
The Wonders of Language: Or How to Make Noises and Influence People by Ian Roberts 9781107149939
RRP: $199.50$179.45Ian 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... -
The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning by Vyvyan Evans 9781107123915
RRP: $117.60$106.37From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey... -
Register Variation Online by Douglas Biber 9781107122161
RRP: $210.00$188.75While 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... -
Language, the Singer and the Song: The Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance by Richard J. Watts 9781107112711
RRP: $233.10$210.04The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John... -
Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse by Beate Hampe 9781107198333
RRP: $247.80$223.06Metaphor theory has shifted from asking whether metaphor is 'conceptual' or 'linguistic' to debating whether it is 'embodied' or 'discursive'. Although recent work in the social and cognitive sciences has yielded clear opportunities to resolve that... -
Language and a Sense of Place: Studies in Language and Region by Chris Montgomery 9781107098718
RRP: $231.00$208.19Place has always been central to studies of language, variation and change. Since the eighteenth century, dialectologists have been mapping language features according to boundaries - both physical and institutional. In the twentieth century,... -
Multilingual Youth Practices in Computer Mediated Communication by Cecelia Cutler 9781107091733
RRP: $210.00$188.75With an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated data from these interactions to show how communication technologies and multilingual resources are... -
The Rise of Writing: Redefining Mass Literacy by Deborah Brandt 9781107090316
RRP: $138.60$123.98Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences - writing so much, in fact, that they have less time and appetite for reading. In this highly anticipated sequel to her... -
Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies by John Russell Rickford 9781107086135
RRP: $233.10$210.04By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and... -
Women Talk More Than Men: ... And Other Myths about Language Explained by Abby Kaplan 9781107084926
RRP: $117.60$106.37Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths, focusing on important big-picture issues such as the rule-governed nature of language... -
How Writing Works: From the Invention of the Alphabet to the Rise of Social Media by Dominic Wyse 9781107184688
RRP: $199.50$179.45From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Starting with seven extraordinary examples that serve as a backdrop to the themes explored, it pays particular... -
Language, Culture, and Education: Challenges of Diversity in the United States by Elizabeth Ijalba 9781107081871
RRP: $210.00$189.59Exploring language, culture and education among immigrants in the United States, this volume discusses the range of experiences in raising children with more than one language in major ethno-linguistic groups in New York. Research and practice from the... -
High-Level Language Proficiency in Second Language and Multilingual Contexts by Kenneth Hyltenstam 9781107175921
RRP: $210.00$188.75The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguistic/structural; psycholinguistic/cognitive and sociolinguistic/societal. Bringing together a team of... -
Thinking like a Linguist: An Introduction to the Science of Language by Jordan B. Sandoval 9781107183926
RRP: $157.48$139.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781107183926Author Jordan B. SandovalFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Suspect's Statement: Talk and Text in the Criminal Process by Martha Komter 9781107059481
RRP: $210.00$188.75What suspects tell the police may become a crucial piece of evidence when the case comes to court. But what happens to 'the suspect's statement' when it is written down by the police? Based on a unique set of data from over fifteen years' worth of... -
Endangered Languages and New Technologies by Mari C. Jones 9781107049598
RRP: $210.00$188.75At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of... -
Heritage Languages and their Speakers by Maria Polinsky 9781107047648
RRP: $168.00$152.40This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and... -
Language, Sexuality and Education by Helen Sauntson 9781107126879
RRP: $210.00$188.75Presenting a range of data obtained from secondary schools in the UK and US, this path-breaking book explores the role played by language in constructing sexual identities. Analysing the often complex ways in which homophobia, heterosexism and... -
Exploring Language and Linguistics by Natalie Braber 9781107035461
RRP: $188.98$167.58Exploring Language and Linguistics considers the key concepts of linguistics and the application of these concepts to real-world settings. The first eight chapters cover the standard topics of introduction to linguistics courses, while subsequent... -
How Mediation Works: Resolving Conflict Through Talk by Angela Cora Garcia 9781107024274
RRP: $210.00$189.59Using conversation analysis to study the interaction between mediators and disputants, this study shows how mediation is used to resolve conflict in small claims and divorce mediation sessions. Angela Garcia explores the techniques mediators use to help... -
South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics by Heather Winskel 9781107017764
RRP: $163.80$148.68A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes underlying language, much of which comes from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and... -
Mind, Brain and Narrative by Anthony J. Sanford 9781107017566
RRP: $210.00$189.59Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to construct contexts, how to draw inferences and how to identify...