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• Author(s): Len Unsworth • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralResearching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's lang...

• Author(s): Peter Sharpe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book We use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, wi...

• Author(s): Claudine Kirsch • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesTeaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School advises modern foreign language trainee and qualified teachers...

• Author(s): Mireille Ravassat | Jonathan Culpeper • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAbout the Book This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest...

• Author(s): Ernesto Macaro • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesThere is increasingly wide agreement among teachers, researchers, inspectors, advisers and policy-makers that bo...

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

• Author(s): Simon Borg • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsThe study of teacher cognition - what teachers think, know and believe - and of its relationship to teachers' classroom prac...

• Author(s): Louise J. Ravelli • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - General'The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make it an invaluable c...

• Author(s): Joanna Baker | Heather Westrup • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book Practical and easy to use, Essential Speaking Skills is the definitive guide to...

• Author(s): Brian Tomlinson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents new research in the field of language acquisition and development. The contributors pay attention to first languag...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a comprehensive guide to the nature of language and an introduction to linguistic analysis. This is a brand new edition of "An...

• Author(s): Sanford Schane • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis comprehensive introduction to Language and the Law looks at the common areas of interaction between linguistics and the legal p...

• Author(s): Jose Medina • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInquiry into the nature and purpose of language has long been a central concern of Western philosophy, within both the analytic, Anglo-Am...

• Author(s): Alexandre Duchene • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCurrent academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against va...

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

• Author(s): Philip Riley • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow language shapes and is shaped by identity is a key topic within sociolinguistics. An individual's identity is constituted through a ...

• Author(s): Toshiko Yamaguchi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis introduction to Japanese linguistics is designed to introduce students to all of the main areas of the subject. What makes...

• Author(s): VIV Ellis • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language ArtsWhy should young people study a subject called English? This question lies at the heart of this fascinating monograph, which ...

• Author(s): Frances Christie • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functi...

• Author(s): Paul Thibault • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This intere...

• Author(s): Alwin Fill • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, combined language with ecology. For Haugen,...

• Author(s): Jane Simpson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAll over the world there are children who learn one (or more) language at home and then have to learn another language when they atten...

• Author(s): Michael a. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insi...

• Author(s): Kristyan Spelman Miller • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe papers in this collection, drawn from the 34th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, refl...

• Author(s): Barry Lee • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPhilosophers have raised and struggled with questions relating to human language for more than 2000 years. Philosophy of Language: The Key ...

• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFrench Feminist Theory offers an introduction to the key concepts and themes in French feminist thought, both the materialist...

• Author(s): Jorgen Christian Bang • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage, Ecology and Society presents a view of language and ecology from a dialectical perspective. In this analysis...

• Author(s): Andrea Dr Mayr • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow language is used in institutions and how institutions generate language is a key concern of both sociolinguistics and social theor...

• Author(s): John Williams • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Educational SoftwareThis textbook advises on how to use ICT in the teaching of the primary foundations subjects: HistoryGeographyDesign & Technology Art...

• Author(s): Anne McCabe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the c...

• Author(s): Heidi Byrnes • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & Teaching'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantly, they in...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights in...

• Author(s): Duncan Grey • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Computers & TechnologyAbout the Book Written in a non-threatening and nontechnical style, this guide examines both t...

• Author(s): Bettina Fischer-Starcke • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsProvides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its applica...

• Author(s): M.A.K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAbout the Book The Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics is designed to be the essen...