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Metaphors in the Mind: Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor by Jeannette Littlemore 9781108416566
RRP: £95.00£85.85Abstract 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: £110.00£99.14Much 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: £34.99£30.49In 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: £26.99£22.80What 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: £95.00£85.45Bilingual 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: £26.99£22.80Bilingual 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: £100.00£90.28This 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: £50.00£44.98How 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: £100.00£90.28Bringing 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: £100.00£89.88In 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: £95.00£85.45Ian 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: £56.00£50.65From 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: £100.00£89.88While 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: £111.00£100.02The 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: £118.00£106.22Metaphor 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: £110.00£99.14Place 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: £100.00£89.88With 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: £66.00£59.04Millions 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: £111.00£100.02By 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: £56.00£50.65Do 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: £95.00£85.45From 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: £100.00£90.28Exploring 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: £100.00£89.88The 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: £74.99£66.29Apologies 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: £100.00£89.88What 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: £100.00£89.88At 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: £80.00£72.57This 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: £100.00£89.88Presenting 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: £89.99£79.80Exploring 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: £100.00£90.28Using 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: £78.00£70.80A 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: £100.00£90.28Narratives 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... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1993: Strategic Interaction and Language Acquisition: Theory, Practice, and Research by James E. Alatis 9780878401284
RRP: £48.00£42.81The papers in this volume examine strategies for language acquisition and language teaching, focusing on applications of the strategic interaction method.Book InformationISBN 9780878401284Author James E. AlatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint... -
Studies in General Linguistics and Language Structure by Anatoly Liberman 9780822322801
RRP: £94.00£75.93Edited and with an introduction by Anatoly Liberman Translated by Marvin Taylor and Anatoly LibermanN. S. Trubetzkoy (1890-1939) is generally celebrated today as the creator of the science of phonology. While his monumental Grundzuge der Phonologie was... -
Introducing Speech and Language Processing by John Coleman 9780521823654
RRP: £74.99£66.29This major new textbook provides a clearly-written, concise and accessible introduction to speech and language processing. Assuming knowledge of only the very basics of linguistics and written specifically for students with no technical background, it is... -
The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial Expansion and Language Change by J. Clancy Clements 9780521831758
RRP: £70.00£63.71The historical spread of Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world provides a rich source of data for linguists studying how languages evolve and change. This volume analyses the development of Portuguese and Spanish from Latin and their subsequent... -
Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia by Giovanni Bennardo 9780521883122
RRP: £110.00£99.14The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of... -
Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky 9780521881760
RRP: £78.99£71.27In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science... -
Language Diversity in the USA by Kim Potowski 9780521745338
RRP: £39.99£34.23What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the... -
The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction by Peter Trudgill 9780521710169
RRP: £36.99£33.95This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and...