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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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Bethan Marshall • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Study & TeachingAbout the Book This work considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing...

• Author(s): Donald Hawes • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Literary FiguresAbout the Book Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own genera...

• Author(s): Duncan Grey • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Computers & TechnologyAbout the Book Written in a non-threatening and nontechnical style, this guide examines both t...

• Author(s): Lizzy Lewis • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: CurriculaPhilosophy for Children (P4C) is an approach to learning and teaching that aims to develop reasoning and judgement. Students learn to listen to and r...

• Author(s): Julian Wolfreys • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAbout the Book Jacques Derrida has argued about the difference between literature and theory that desp...

• Author(s): Daniel T. Kline • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalAbout the Book Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and auth...

• Author(s): J. Jeremy Wisnewski | R.D. Emerick • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAbout the Book Torture has recently been the subject of some sensationa...