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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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Sally Johnson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe study of language ideologies has become a key theme in sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the relat...

• 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): 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): 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): Sally Johnson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central ...

• 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): 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): Heidi Byrnes • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & Teaching'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantly, they in...

• 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): 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): Sally Johnson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central ...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' Roy Har...

• Author(s): Sally Johnson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe study of language ideologies has become a key theme in sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the relat...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Ray Cattell • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentence...

• 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): 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...