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In a systematic presentation of Johnson's views on language, Johnson on Language: An Introduction addresses the problems inherent in the formation of style, as Johnson saw them, but also contains a detailed discussion of his opinions concerning the...

American ed. issued under title: Language understanding.Book InformationISBN 9780333331088Author Terence MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 306g

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By outlining and integrating three different perspectives - discourse, rhetoric and social theory - this book provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. The first part of the book describes the tools and...

Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. Neeleman and Weerman take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data...

With increasing pressure on academics and graduate students to publish in peer reviewed journals, this book offers a much-needed guide to writing about and publishing quantitative research in applied linguistics. With annotated examples and useful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883126448Author Frank BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Dr Cheshire's fieldwork concentrates on phonological variation in spontaneous everyday conversation. She interviews a group of non-standard English speakers living in Reading, Berkshire. Her data provides a basis for a perceptive analysis of variation in...

A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by relevance theorists and cognitive linguists. The resulting hybrid theory shows the complementarity of many positions as well as the need and...

The news interview has become a major vehicle for presenting broadcast news and political commentary, and a primary interface between the institutions of journalism and government. This much-needed work examines the place of the news interview in...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313235856Author Gerard M. DalgishFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140788713Author Patrick O'KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140737087Author William WillymottFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 281g

Originally published in 1975, this was the first detailed linguistic study of natural language numeral systems. It draws on two quite different scholarly traditions. The first is carried on by anthropologists and others compiling and cataloguing data on...

This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. The book is divided into two parts. Part I considers the parameters at play in motion encoding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888152046Author Albert WeidemanFormat PaperbackImprint Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing ProjectPublisher Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287794Author Nj EnfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as 'curriculum genres', some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities...

Emphasising the significance of foreign languages at the centre of war and conflict, this book argues that 'foreignness' and foreign languages are key to our understanding of what happens in war. Through case studies the book traces the role of languages...

This study examines the variation between children in early language development, focusing on their acquisition of the auxiliary verb. Learning auxiliary verbs and the syntactic and pragmatic functions with which they are associated is an essential...

This 1974 book is a personal survey by an eminent linguist of most branches of linguistics, setting out its position, questioning some underlying assumptions, and in general testing the adequacy of descriptive theories. Though the underlying theory is...

Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all school achievement; a measure of success that defines both an 'educated' person, and an educable one. In this volume, a team of leading experts raise...

Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692440827Author David BadeFormat PaperbackImprint IaislcPublisher IaislcWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293436Author Andre SherriahFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293412Author Marsha Forbes-BarnettFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289712Author Dianne FriesenFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288890Author Alessandro ViettiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287855Author Katrin MenzelFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of...

This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change. After introducing the aims and methods of historical linguistics, Olga Fischer provides an exposition of the main theories used to describe morphosyntactic change...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170152614Author Isaac WattsFormat PaperbackImprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 281g

Shared Territory brings together Patricia Carini's concept of the developing child as a `maker of works' and Bakhtin's theory of language as dialogism in order to re-examine our assumptions about how to define written language development and how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873958820Author Francine FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Chapter 5: Irish Noun Phrases ...266 5. 0 Introduction 266 5. 0. 1 Irish Nominal Paradigms...269 5. 0. 2 Prepositional Phrases: Two Types of Mutation Context ...273 5. 1 Construct State Nominals and DP Projections...282 5. 1. 1 Rightward Specifiers 286 5...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003849Author Michael BoutinFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. Through an extensive analysis of how pragmatics can go wrong, this 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account...

Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language...

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric readings is not accidental, contrary to most current thinking, but...

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing...