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Language and the Creative Mind by Michael Borkent
Booksplease Price: £28.85This volume brings together papers from the Eleventh Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. Cognitive studies of linguistics have begun to examine... -
LingVis by Miriam Butt 9781684000340
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.85This volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with... -
Strong Generative Capacity: The Semantics of Linguistic Formalism by Philip H. Miller 9781575862132
Booksplease Price: £56.45The concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early sixties in order to characterize descriptive capacity. However, the original... -
Exploring Logical Dynamics Johan F. A. K. van Benthem (Universiteit van Amsterdam and Stanford University, California) 9781575860589
Booksplease Price: £23.87This book is an exploration of current trends in logical theories of information flow across various fields, such as belief revision in computer science or dynamic semantics in linguistics. It... -
Pluricentric Languages and Language Education: Pedagogical Implications and Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching by Marcus Callies 9781032164342
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages by Miriam Butt 9781881526506
Booksplease Price: £53.48This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia. These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word... -
Strong Generative Capacity: The Semantics of Linguistic Formalism by Philip H. Miller 9781575862149
Booksplease Price: £25.22The concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early sixties in order to characterize descriptive capacity. However, the original... -
Probabilistic Approaches to Linguistic Theory by Jean–philippe Bernardy 9781684000791
Booksplease Price: £32.30A textbook exploring predictive modes of linguistic development and analysis. During the last two decades, computational linguists, in concert with other researchers in AI, have turned to machine... -
Selected Papers on Computer Science Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California) 9781881526919
Booksplease Price: £23.40This anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming is a survey of Donald Knuth's papers on computer science. Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of... -
Information and Mind - The Philosophy of Fred Dretske by Paul Skokowski
Booksplease Price: £32.30Information and Mind explores questions of consciousness that Fred Dretske addressed in his philosophical career. Ranging from one of the earliest problems Dretske analyzed-the nature of seeing an... -
Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language by Rens Bod 9781575861500
Booksplease Price: £21.05During the last few years, a new approach to linguistic analysis has started to emerge. This approach, which has come to be known under various labels such as 'data-oriented parsing', 'corpus-based... -
Identity, Language, and Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry by Albert Newen 9781575866437
Booksplease Price: £43.45As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal... -
The Semantics of Destructive Lisp by Ian A. Mason 9780937073063
Booksplease Price: £26.05While the semantics of 'pure' lisp is well understood, the same cannot be said for the lisp that people actually use, due to the presence of so-called 'destructive operations' in programs, operations... -
Form and Meaning in Language: Vol. 1 by Charles J. Fillmore 9781575862859
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.80This volume traces the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore throughout his 30 year career. It is a collection which reflects his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps... -
Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth by Donald E. Knuth 9781575866352
Booksplease Price: £28.85Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have become classics that are often given credit for... -
Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth 9781575860107
Booksplease Price: £32.17Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. One of the foremost figures in the field of... -
The Social Lives of Study Abroad: Understanding Second Language Learners' Experiences through Social Network Analysis and Conversation Analysis by Atsushi Hasegawa
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This volume presents an innovative approach to understanding the language socialization process of second language learners in study abroad programs, focusing on the case of study abroad programs in... -
Foundations of Logic – Completeness, Incompleteness, Computability by Dag Westerståhl 9781684000005
Booksplease Price: £36.05A comprehensive introduction to logic's central concepts. This book provides a concise but detailed account of modern logic's three cornerstones: the completeness of first-order logic, Goedel's... -
Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory: A Study in the Morphology of Relative Clauses by Farrell Ackerman
Booksplease Price: £28.55Descriptive grammarians and typologists often encounter unusual constructions or unfamiliar variants of otherwise familiar construction types. Many of these phenomena are puzzling from the... -
Language is Politics: Exploring an Ecological Approach to Language Frank van Splunder 9780367365424
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £32.14Language is Politics discusses power relations between languages in the world, with a particular focus on English. Even though English is the most widely spoken and the most powerful language... -
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Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" by Donovan Wishon 9781575868462
Booksplease Price: £25.27Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge,... -
The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language Ari Huhta 9781138201378
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing. In this innovative book, a compelling case is... -
Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences: An Introductory Course Using Hyperproof by David Barker-Plummer 9781575869513
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.55The Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences courseware package teaches the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction using a carefully crafted combination of textbook, desktop,... -
Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide by Eleni Orfanidou 9781118271414
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £77.37Research Methods in Sign Language Studies is a landmark work on sign language research, which spans the fields of linguistics, experimental and developmental psychology, brain research, and language... -
Language and the Creative Mind by Barbara Dancygier 9781575866710
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £55.10This volume brings together papers from the Eleventh Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. Cognitive studies of linguistics have begun to examine... -
Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? Douglas W. Jones 9781575866369
Booksplease Price: £23.70For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently... -
Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning by Jeannette Littlemore 9781403996022
Booksplease Price: £90.56Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ figurative thinking. This book... -
Form and Meaning in Language: Volume I, Papers on Semantic Roles Charles Fillmore 9781575862866
Booksplease Price: £21.99This volume traces the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore throughout his 30 year career. It is a collection which reflects his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps... -
Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region by Kaori Okano
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving... -
Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the People's Communes by 9780892640447
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.78A research tool for scholars studying modern China, particularly those focusing on the post-1949 communal system and economy. The work includes full bibliographic references to some 2,800 essay,... -
The Learner-Centred Curriculum: A Study in Second Language Teaching by David Nunan 9780521358439
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.46Traditionally, the curriculum has been regarded as a statement of what should be done in a course of study. The Learner-Centred Curriculum takes as its starting point what is done by language... -
From Cognitivism to Ecologism in Language Studies by Marta Bogusławska 9783631884737
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.73Recent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in on cognition, verbal choices and performance. (...) [and] have provided interesting results, but which often veer towards quantity... -
Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning by Jeannette Littlemore 9781349544998
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £75.68Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ figurative thinking. This book... -
Iranian Languages and Literatures of Central Asia: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present by E. Grassi 9782910640439
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.70Compared with numerous critical studies in Central Asian history, politics and society published during recent years, modern languages and literary traditions of Central Asia... -
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School: A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices by Yan Zhu 9789811356094
Booksplease Price: £90.72This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the... -
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School: A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices by Yan Zhu 9789811072383
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the... -
Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts Martin Montgomery 9781138047075
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and indispensable guide to the essential terminology of the overlapping fields of Language, Media and Culture. Designed to give... -
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research by Heidi Bojsen 9781800410893
RRP: £129.95Booksplease Price: £62.87Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic... -
Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research by Heidi Bojsen
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.71Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic... -
The Soft Power of the Russian Language: Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies by Arto Mustajoki
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and...