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• 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): Fiona MC Laughlin • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes. The first is the history of Afric...

• 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): 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights in...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...

• 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): Anne McCabe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the c...

• 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...

• Author(s): Regina Weinert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume provides a detailed analysis of the relationships between form and function in spontaneous spoken language. The contribu...

• Author(s): Fred C. C. Peng • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the per...

• 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): Guus Extra • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? ...

• 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): 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): Jorgen Christian Bang • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage, Ecology and Society presents a view of language and ecology from a dialectical perspective. In this analysis...

• 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): Anne Ife • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The th...

• 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 ...