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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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Geoff Williams • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution. It makes visible the...

• 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): Paul Baker • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book offers a clearly written and comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of all linguisti...

• 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): Rosemary Boys • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Schools - Levels - ElementaryTo be published alongside Primary Curriculum - Teaching the Core Subjects, this textbook focuses on how to teach the following ...