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• Author(s): Frances Christie • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theor...

• Author(s): Witold Tulasiewicz • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication s...

• Author(s): Ernesto Macaro • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Learning StylesAn extremely lucid book that mixes discursive prose with exercises, questions and prompts for reflection. Each theoretical point i...

• Author(s): Brendan Bartram • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Schools - Levels - SecondaryDrawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign La...

• Author(s): Paul A. Gregory • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernW. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the r...

• Author(s): Gail Forey • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe global developments in Information Technology Enabled Services have transformed customer service encounters which were unt...

• Author(s): Carmen Perez-Llantada • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe rhetorical practices involved with the dissemination of scientific discourse are shifting. Addressing these cha...

• Author(s): Zeki Hamawand • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyMorphology in English is a text which provides an in-depth analysis of the branch of linguistics which studies the formati...

• Author(s): Louise Poulson • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: CurriculaThis work offers a comprehensive account of the development of English as a school subject. It also examines the debates over English wh...

• Author(s): Peter H. Fries • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book describes language as a network of functional relations involving a context which is also a network of functional ...

• Author(s): Vivian Cook • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingWritten by internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustra...

• Author(s): Christopher J. Hall • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - General'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly writ...

• Author(s): Hamid Ouali • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. Work on...

• Author(s): Luke Prodromou • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingUsing a corpus of data drawn from naturally-occurring second language conversations, this book explores the role of idiomatic...

• Author(s): Alexandre Duchene • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeCurrent academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of...

• Author(s): Vivian Cook • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingWritten by internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustra...

• Author(s): Fred C. C. Peng • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, fr...

• Author(s): Rita Elaine Silver • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis edited volume is dedicated to the exploration of English language acquisition and development outside of the largely...

• Author(s): Martin Blocksidge • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsWritten for in-service teachers, this volume covers techniques for teaching literature to 11-18 years olds ...

• Author(s): Monica Heller • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe subject of this book is linguistic minorities, and how language is used by speakers of languages which are not the main l...

• Author(s): Michael Thomas • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learni...

• Author(s): Julia Myers • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsThis title highlights aspects of progression and continuity in the teaching of English across the Foundation and ...

• Author(s): Anna Verschik • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Bilingual EducationAnna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly beco...

• Author(s): Dennis Ernest Ager • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsExamines the making of language policy, and language policy itself, in Britain and France, looking at how disci...

• Author(s): Salikoko S. Mufwene • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, a...

• Author(s): Monika Bednarek • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsNew Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation w...

• Author(s): David Wood • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaic language (multi-word units believed to be mentally st...

• Author(s): Heidi Byrnes • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & Teaching'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantl...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen ins...

• Author(s): Rachel Whittaker • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: LiteracyThis volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retr...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Sampson • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhen it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven P...

• Author(s): Dalila Ayoun • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theor...

• Author(s): Gunther Kress • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & Technology'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of ...

• Author(s): Jette G. Hansen Edwards • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis is a study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It is the fir...

• Author(s): Monika Bednarek • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsNew Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation w...

• Author(s): Len Unsworth • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsIn an age where the use of electronic media is expanding and the nature of traditional texts and text-based lear...