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Under the Bridge: A Study Guide for the Film by Vivian Ling 9780892641130
Booksplease Price: £29.35Consisting of the complete filmscript, vocabulary annotations, grammatical notes, and exercises, this study guide turns the Chinese film, Under the Bridge into a powerful teaching tool. With its... -
Yay Language: Glossaries, Texts, and Translations by Thomas John Hudak 9780891480662
Booksplease Price: £95.82In the 1960s and 1970s, William J. Gedney, the preeminent authority on Tai languages and literatures, conducted extensive investigations into a large number of Tai dialects. Employing careful and... -
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... -
Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches by Judith Purkarthofer
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £39.00This book discusses salient moments of multilingual encounters and brings together contributions focused on the interplay between language use by individuals and societies, and language-related... -
Historical Linguistics and Endangered Languages: Exploring Diversity in Language Change by Patience Epps 9781032041292
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward... -
Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Studies in Linguistics and Language Learning by Danuta Gabrys-Barker 9783319860282
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book offers several insights into cross-cultural and multilingual learning, drawing upon recent research within two main areas: Language Studies and Multilingual Language Learning/Teaching. It... -
Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: An Active Approach by David Bradley 9781138878341
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much... -
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning Juliane House 9781399523226
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross-cultural pragmatics. Cross-cultural... -
On Language and Sexual Politics by Deborah Cameron
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron's work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in... -
Thai and Indic Literary Studies by Thomas John Hudak 9780891480808
Booksplease Price: £39.22For most of his career Professor William J. Gedney has devoted his scholarly research to an indepth exploration and recording of Tai languages and dialects. These endeavors have resulted in numerous... -
Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide Eleni Orfanidou (University College London, UK) 9781118271421
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £36.56Research 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... -
Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts by Kay Irie 9780230282643
Booksplease Price: £90.56Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences... -
The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies by Janet Maybin
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. This authoritative collection includes entries written... -
English Language: The Basics Philip Seargeant 9781032795478
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.74This lively and engaging book traces English's remarkable journey from a small, local language to the global resource it is today.The book follows the story of English from its earliest origins,... -
Linguistic Stratigraphy: Recovering Traces of Lost Languages in the Central Andes by Matthias Urban 9783031421013
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.65This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through... -
Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts by Joanna Blochowiak 9783319840253
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £108.52This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University... -
Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts by Kay Irie 9781349328529
Booksplease Price: £90.56Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences... -
Yuarn Music Dramas: Studies in Prosody and Structure and a Complete Catalogue of Northern Arias in the Dramatic Style by Dale Johnson 9780892640409
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns,... -
Building a National Corpus: A Welsh Language Case Study by Dawn Knight 9783030818579
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £54.72This book aims to provide a micro-level, working model of a methodological approach and practical guidelines for building a corpus, informed by the work on the CorCenCC project (Corpws Cenedlaethol... -
Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language Jennifer Coates 9781138948785
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this... -
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning Juliane House 9781399523233
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross-cultural pragmatics. Cross-cultural... -
Language and Identity in the University: Exploring Marginality and Liminality in Higher Education Yolanda Cerda 9781804131862
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Language and Identity in the University is an exploration of the relationship between language and the construction of identities in Higher Education contexts and what this relationship reveals about... -
Futures for English Studies: Teaching Language, Literature and Creative Writing in Higher Education by Ann Hewings 9781137431783
Booksplease Price: £90.56Futures for English Studies brings together chapters by leading writers across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language, and creative... -
Fantasia Apocalyptica Illustrated by Duane R. Bibby
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Artist Duane R. Bibby brings Donald E. Knuth's computer-assisted musical "translation" of the biblical Book of Revelation to life in this illustrated edition of Knuth's multimedia work for pipe organ... -
Translation and Translating in German Studies: A Festschrift for Raleigh Whitinger by John L Plews 9781771126717
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21Translation and Translating in German Studies is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Raleigh Whitinger, a well-loved scholar of German literature, an inspiring teacher, and an exceptional... -
Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature: A Kawi Prose Anthology by Mary S Zurbuchen 9780891480532
Booksplease Price: £8.98The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of... -
New Studies in Weak Arithmetics: Volume 3: Volume 3 by Patrick Cegielski
Booksplease Price: £30.43The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. This third volume in the... -
Investigations in Sign-based Construction Grammar: Volume 230 Paul Kay 9780937073414
Booksplease Price: £28.76A thorough investigation into idioms and their grand meaning, including how best to analyze them. Any theory of idioms should be part and parcel of a general theory of grammar, adding as little... -
Agency in Language Policy and Planning:: Critical Inquiries by Jeremie Bouchard
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This collection brings together theory and ethnographic research from a range of national contexts to offer unique insights into the nature of agency in language policy and planning. Situated within... -
Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research Various 9781529372250
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.60This book captures an urgent moment for language teaching, learning and research. At its core are a series of debates concerning gender stereotyping, the place of linguistics in modern languages,... -
Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One: A Case Study of Four European Authors by Jelle Krol
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different strategies... -
Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period by Karen Bennett 9780367552152
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as... -
The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Petre Petrov 9780815367369
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the... -
Pluricentricity: Language Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions by Augusto Soares da Silva 9783110303476
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £77.62The "one-nation-one-language" assumption is as unrealistic as the well-known Chomskyan ideal of a homogeneous speech community. Linguistic pluricentricity is a common and widespread phenomenon; it... -
Logic, Information and Agency Johan van Benthem 9780937073032
Booksplease Price: £28.76A systematic study of information dynamics that extends beyond what is found in standard logic textbooks. Everything we do is driven by information, but the dynamic process of acquiring information... -
Thinking About Texts: An Introduction to English Studies by Chris Hopkins 9780230516489
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.36This successful introductory textbook simultaneously develops advanced skills in reading texts and the ability to think in sophisticated ways about the defining concepts of contemporary English... -
Cyprian of Carthage: Studies in His Life, Language and Thought by H. Bakker 9789042923973
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.81Up to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in His Life, Language and... -
Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity by Janna Fox 9781032244846
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67This volume reconsiders the problem of context in language testing and other modes of assessment from the perspective of transdisciplinarity. Transdisciplinary assessment research brings together... -
The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies Janet Maybin (The Open University, UK) 9780415403382
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies is an accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. This authoritative collection includes entries written... -
Language Planning and Policy: Issues in Language Planning and Literacy by Anthony J. Liddicoat 9781853599774
RRP: £94.95Booksplease Price: £84.65While literacy has always been central to language planning work, there are fewer studies which focus primarily on literacy as a language planning activity. Often planning for literacy is treated as...