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Languages in Contact by Lisa Lim 9780521767958
RRP: £60.00£54.17Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism,... -
A Pictographic Naxi Origin Myth from Southwest China: An Annotated Translation by Duncan Poupard 9789087284275
RRP: £168.00£98.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284275Author Duncan PoupardFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
Interpersonal Meaning in Multimodal English Textbooks by Dr Yumin Chen 9781350074941
£109.68Exploring multimodality in English language teaching textbooks, this book focusses on how language and image are co-deployed within these resources in order to create and convey interpersonal meaning. Presenting cutting-edge research in appraisal studies... -
Modern Chinese Grammar III: Substitution and Numeration by WANG Li 9781032319698
RRP: £135.00£117.28Focusing on the substitution and numeration of modern Chinese, this is the third volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists. In this volume, the author first introduces the different types of... -
Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax by WANG Li 9781032319520
RRP: £135.00£117.28Focusing on the fundamental grammatical units and construction in modern Chinese, the title is the first volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by Wang Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists. Based on the corpus of two classic... -
Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the 13th Century: Volume Two by Gerrit Bos 9780199685837
RRP: £25.00£22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199685837Author Gerrit BosFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 362g -
The Palmyrene Tax Tariff by Ilia Sholeimovich Shifman 9780198726159
RRP: £25.00£22.94Shifman's monograph on the Palmyrene tax inscription of 137 CE, published in Russian in 1980, has been largely neglected in subsequent scholarship, sharing the fate of other fine contributions published in Russian. A wide-ranging scholar in Classics and... -
Why We Gesture: The Surprising Role of Hand Movements in Communication by David McNeill 9781316502365
RRP: £26.99£22.80Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an 'add-on' to spoken language? Why do... -
Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America by Douglas A. Kibbee
RRP: £28.99£24.42Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority... -
The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar by Thomas Hoffmann
RRP: £46.99£43.77The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of constructions-pairings of form and meaning. Construction Grammar,... -
Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language: A Critical and Historical Study by Gerald L. Bruns
RRP: £13.95£9.97-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns... -
Multilingualism and Ageing: An Overview by Kees de Bot
RRP: £94.00£86.78Multilingualism and Ageing provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches,... -
Young Linguists in Dialogue: The First Conference by Ewa Willim
£30.42This volume contains selected papers on linguistics from the conference organized by the Jagiellonian University Student's English Society from April 7 to 8 in 2008 in Krakow. The authors were all students of the Jagiellonian University and the... -
Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference by David R. Hawkins
RRP: £15.99£14.70Truth vs. Falsehood reveals a breakthrough in documenting a new era of human knowledge. Only in the last decade has a science of Truth emerged that, for the first time in human history, enables the discernment of truth from falsehood. Presented are... -
The Study of Bilingual Language Processing by Nan Jiang
RRP: £98.00£88.71This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifies the most important characteristics of this research and its historical developments, before the main part... -
Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students, Second Edition by Mason Hammond
£45.35This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of... -
Weighting Evidence in Language and Literature: A Statistical Approach by Barron Brainerd
RRP: £27.99£24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442652224Author Barron BrainerdFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 467g -
Modality in Kazakh as Spoken in China by Aynur Abish
RRP: £75.00£72.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447106269Author Aynur AbishFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 499g -
Awkword Moments: A Lively Guide to the 100 Terms Smart People Should Know by Ross Petras
RRP: £12.99£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856388Author Ross PetrasFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
£112.71Bestselling introduction to English morphology, now revised and updatedWhat exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of... -
The Relationship Between Various Types of Teachers' Language and Comprehension: In the Acquisition of Intermediate Japanese by Hiroshi Matsumoto
RRP: £75.99£70.29The Relationship Between Various Types of Teachers' Language and Comprehension exposes new research on the methods of successfully teaching Japanese as a second language. It breaks down the comprehension process into immediate comprehension, delayed... -
Exploring the Ecologies of World Englishes: Language, Society and Culture by Pam Peters
RRP: £130.00£118.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462853Author Pam PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 172g -
A First English Dictionary: For ESL Students by Raja Nasr
RRP: £92.00£85.18This learner's dictionary for students whose native language is other than English is a unique and educational aid for more than 3,400 words. Author Raja Nasr details primary stress, part(s) of speech, and various meanings in simple English. Nasr also... -
El Mundo Sobre El Papel by David R Olson
£29.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474326222Author David R OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa EditorialWeight(grams) 157g -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Starter Level:: The Fifteenth Character by Rosemary Border
£9.28"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something... -
Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought by Emma Gilby
RRP: £84.99£73.85This book explores the place of enquiries into literality and fictiveness in early modern French thought, making a historically sensitive contribution to the study of early modern narrative and the relationship between logical clarity and persuasive... -
Words and Contents by Richard Vallee
RRP: £19.00£18.50The papers collected in Richard Vallee's Words and Contents span twenty-one years of research. Beginning with referring expressions and later addressing context sensitivity, the book examines how specific words contribute to the contents of utterances... -
Cognitive Literary Science: Dialogues between Literature and Cognition by Michael Burke
RRP: £93.00£70.36This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science. The tripartite structure of the... -
Linguistics and the Language of Translation by Kirsten Malmkjaer
£28.69This book is for students of translation, languages and linguistics who would like to enhance their understanding of the relationships between these areas of study. The book uses explanation, discussion and practice to make explicit the forms of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization by Heiko Narrog
£48.52This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world... -
Cognitive Explorations of Translation by Sharon O'Brien
£46.26This title uses new technologies to analyze the thoughts and cognitive processes behind the translation process. "Cognitive Explorations of Translation" focuses on the topic of investigating translation processes from a cognitive perspective. With little... -
Locating Translingualism by Jerry Won Lee
RRP: £26.99£22.80Encounters involving different cultures and languages are increasingly the norm in the era of globalization. While considerable attention has been paid to how languages and cultures transform in the era of globalization, their characteristic features... -
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim by Michael Fortescue
£29.52This is an extension of the author's earlier volume, "Eskimo Orientation Systems". This time it covers all the contiguous languages -- and cultures -- across the northern Pacific rim from Van-couver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern... -
Situations and Syntactic Structures: Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English: Volume 77 by Gillian Catriona Ramchand
RRP: £33.00£32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535038Author Gillian Catriona RamchandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising by Paula Perez Sobrino
RRP: £100.00£90.28Figurative communication (the use of metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony) provides economy of expression, clarity, persuasiveness, politeness, evaluation, and communication of emotions. However, it also increases the potential for misunderstanding in... -
Digital Textuality by Paola Trimarco
£34.23Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies. This undergraduate textbook covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative fiction, hypertext fiction and... -
Beyond CLIL: Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning by Do Coyle
RRP: £67.99£59.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108830904Author Do CoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills in Second Language Learning by Christian Jones
RRP: £100.00£89.88The use of literature in second language teaching has been advocated for a number of years, yet despite this there have only been a limited number of studies which have sought to investigate its effects. Fewer still have focused on its potential effects... -
A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics by Vyvyan Evans
£16.65Cognitive linguistics is one of the most rapidly expanding schools in linguistics with, by now, an impressive and complex technical vocabulary. This alphabetic guide gives an up-to-date introduction to the key terms in cognitive linguistics, covering all... -
Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 3:: Tooth and Claw by Rosemary Border
£11.17"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.This collection of short stories is clever, funny, and shows us...