Search results for “[subject: language-study-general]”

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Linguistics explains the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their un...

• 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): 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): 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable an...

• 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): 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): 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): Brian Tomlinson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis research collection presents a critical review of the materials used for learning English around the world. The first section in...

• 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): 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): 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): Victor Yngve • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human tempor...

• 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): Junko Mori • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book showcases recent developments in the field of Japanese applied linguistics. It covers a wide range of current issues and influen...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Linguistics explains the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their un...

• Author(s): Linda Tsung • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & TeachingAlthough there is an extensive literature on the teaching of English as a Second or Other Language, there is very little published researc...