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• 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): 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): 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): 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): Wolfgang Teubert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introduces the ...

• 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): Ray Cattell • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between the mind, consciousness and language. The book examines the key...

• Author(s): Tope Omoniyi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAcross the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there...

• Author(s): Bill VanPatten • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Second Language Acquisition includes definitions of key terms within second language acquisition, and also provides acces...

• Author(s): M. Lynne Murphy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsKey Terms in Semantics explains the all the terms and concepts in semantics which students on linguistics and language studies cour...

• Author(s): M. Lynne Murphy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsKey Terms in Semantics explains the all the terms and concepts in semantics which students on linguistics and language studies cour...

• 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): Wolfgang Teubert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introduces the ...

• 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): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis comprehensive introduction to syntax explains the basic concepts of syntax, and how the structures which are in place for des...

• Author(s): Sharon K. Deckert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a definitive introductory text to modern sociolinguistics that looks at the study of language and society through the conce...

• Author(s): Jonathan J. Webster • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsMeaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theo...

• Author(s): Nina Norgaard • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsStylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language in literature and in other types of text....

• Author(s): Roy Harris • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe problem of definition has a long history and has engaged the minds of some of the most eminent thinkers in the Western tradition, fr...

• 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): Jim Miller • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book introduces major areas of debate within the field of syntax: constructions, grammar and semantics, configurationality, usage...

• Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryPostcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The t...

• Author(s): Pamela Rogerson-Revell • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book aims to provide a clear description of key aspects of English phonology in order to help teachers ...

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFerdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semio...

• Author(s): David Block • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSecond Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed pr...

• 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): 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): Paul Baker • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCorpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifica...

• 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe subject of this book is how human beings construe their experience of the world. The construction of experience is usually thou...

• Author(s): Leszek Berezowski • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to st...

• 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): Sharon K. Deckert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis is a definitive introductory text to modern sociolinguistics that looks at the study of language and society through ...

• Author(s): Pamela Rogerson-Revell • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis book aims to provide a clear description of key aspects of English phonology in order to help teachers ...

• Author(s): Lesley Jeffries • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsLesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of opposit...

• Author(s): David Wood • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFormulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and so on. Stu...