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• 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen chapters explo...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Susan Mandala • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and character...

• Author(s): Marina Terkourafi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn the case of hip-hop, the forces of top-down corporatization and bottom-up globalization are inextricably woven. This volume take...

• 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...

• 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): Kensei Sugayama • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory...

• 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): 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): 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsA major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school. R...

• Author(s): Peter Sharpe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWe use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, with friends, colleagues or family. The ability...

• 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): 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): 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): Toshiko Yamaguchi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsJapanese Language in Use is the companion volume to Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction. Using a wide range of examples drawn f...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Sydney Lamb • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worke...

• Author(s): Eddie Ronowicz • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies...