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The Word Weavers: Newshounds and Wordsmiths by Jean Aitchison
Booksplease Price: €66.79Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. Written by one of the foremost authorities on language and the media writing today, this engaging book suggests that view is... -
Language Change: Progress or Decay? by Jean Aitchison
Booksplease Price: €41.03How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions,... -
New Media Language Jean Aitchison 9780415283045
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.From newspapers and television to email, the... -
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison
Booksplease Price: €30.50Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean... -
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Jean Aitchison 9780415610186
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for... -
Language Change: Progress or Decay? by Jean Aitchison 9781107023628
Booksplease Price: €86.70How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions,... -
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics by Jean Aitchison 9781138834774
Booksplease Price: €131.36This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.' The Washington Post A classic in its field for... -
The Word Weavers: Newshounds and Wordsmiths by Jean Aitchison 9780521540070
Booksplease Price: €36.35Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. Written by one of the foremost authorities on language and the media writing today, this engaging book suggests that view is... -
Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual Jean Aitchison 9780851424460
Booksplease Price: €123.15A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and... -
A Political History of China Volume 1 by Jean Aitchison 9798218984236
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €51.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218984236Author Jean AitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint -
Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon by Jean Aitchison 9780470656471
RRP: €54.68Booksplease Price: €49.23Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them,... -
Aitchison's Linguistics: A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics Jean Aitchison 9781444105964
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Is this the right book for me?This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?'... -
The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures by Jean Aitchison 9780521574754
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.65Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores the different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 9781472262295
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world... -
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia Kirsten Malmkjaer 9780415424325
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €73.47The Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume Encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The seventy nine articles provide in-depth coverage of the... -
Language Myths by Laurie Bauer
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.29A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children... -
Child Language: A Resource Book for Students by Jean Stilwell Peccei 9780415281034
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €35.09Child Language:provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in childrenintroduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the relation of language... -
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Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk by Ronald Carter 9780415234498 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €3.11Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as... -
Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas about the Mind by Douwe Draaisma 9780521650243
Booksplease Price: €74.18What is memory? It is at the same time ephemeral, unreliable and essential to everything we do. Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical... -
An Introduction To American English by Gunnel Tottie 9780631197911
RRP: €145.12Booksplease Price: €134.74An Introduction to American English explores American English in the context of American history and institutions, while also making comparisons with British English.About the Author Gunnel Tottie... -
An Introduction To American English by Gunnel Tottie
RRP: €43.97Booksplease Price: €42.14An Introduction to American English explores American English in the context of American history and institutions, while also making comparisons with British English.About the Author Gunnel Tottie... -
Understanding Language Change by April M. S. McMahon 9780521446655
Booksplease Price: €55.44How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will... -
Understanding Language Change by April M. S. McMahon 9780521441193
Booksplease Price: €83.55How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer these questions in a clear and helpful way which will... -
First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings Barbara Lust (Cornell University) 9780631232551
RRP: €53.49Booksplease Price: €50.59First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings is a collection of pioneering classics that provide a framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition:... -
First Language Acquisition – The Essential Readings by BC Lust 9780631232544
RRP: €158.21Booksplease Price: €147.57First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings is a collection of pioneering classics that provide a framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition:... -
Approaches to Media Discourse Allan Bell 9780631198888
RRP: €46.35Booksplease Price: €44.17This collection brings together in one volume current leading approaches to the study of media discourse.About the AuthorAllan Bell is affiliated as a Senior Research Fellow to the Linguistics... -
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English as a Global Language by David Crystal 9780521530323 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.02David Crystal, world authority on the English language, presents a lively and factual account of the rise of English as a global language and explores the whys and wherefores of the history, current... -
Psycholinguistics: A Resource Book for Students by John Field
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €37.12Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of... -
The Language Revolution by David Crystal 9780745633138
Booksplease Price: €19.29We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many...