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• 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): Peter H. Fries • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCurrently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has invol...

• 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): 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): 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): Marina Terkourafi • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn the case of hip-hop, the forces of top-down corporatization and bottom-up globalization are inextricably woven. This v...

• Author(s): Fiona MC Laughlin • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes. The first is the histor...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the seventh volume in the Collected Works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday: Studies in English Language. Topics cov...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Study & TeachingThe ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and education. Pro...

• 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): 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): Jan Blommaert • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors ex...

• 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): Michael a. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, The Language of Science explores the semanti...

• Author(s): Michele Zappavigna • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsSocial media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online an...

• 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): 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): 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: Study & TeachingThe ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and education. Pro...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Susan Mandala • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Writing - GeneralThe language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and chara...

• 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): 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): 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): Guus Extra • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a pa...

• Author(s): Michael Burke • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation o...

• 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): Michael James Grenfell • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included...

• Author(s): Vincenza Tudini • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages is well o...