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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): 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): John Edwards • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHOW DO LANGUAGES LIVE AND DIE? WHAT ROLE DOES TRANSLATION PLAY IN HELPING LANGUAGES TO THRIVE? ARE POLYGLOTS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, GIVE...

• Author(s): Derek Johnston • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralA fun, concise and attractive introduction to a fascinating and challenging subject. This is the ideal book for teenagers an...

• 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): 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): 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): Geoffrey Sampson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCorpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data...

• 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): Hristo Georgiev • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage Engineering examines the processes involved in dictionary-making, parsing, spell-checking, lexical semantics, machine transl...

• 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): Viniti Vaish • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe impact of globalization processes on language is an emergent field in sociolinguistics. To date there has not been an in-depth look ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Geoff Barnbrook • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralThis book reflects the growing influence of corpus linguistics in a variety of areas such as lexicography, translation studies, genre analysis, and...

• Author(s): Joseph Foley • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse in educational sett...

• 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): Viniti Vaish • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe impact of globalization processes on language is an emergent field in sociolinguistics. To date there has not been an in-depth look ...

• 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): 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): 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): M.A.K. Halliday | Jonathan J. Webster • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Hallida...

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

• Author(s): Monika Bednarek • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsWith cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteri...

• Author(s): Martin Conboy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and politi...

• Author(s): Ana Frankenberg-Garcia • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and ...

• 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): David Lockwood • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenome...

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

• 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): 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): Hristo Georgiev • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe ultimate goal of Computational Linguistics is to teach the computer to understand Natural Language. This research monograph prese...

• 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...