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• 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): 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): 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): 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): Rita Elaine Silver • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis edited volume is dedicated to the exploration of English language acquisition and development outside of the largely monolingu...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Linguistics explains the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their un...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Linguistics explains the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their un...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Ernesto Macaro • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBloomsbury Companion To Second Language Acquisition, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced studen...

• 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): David Wood • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume presents a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of formulaic language (multi-word units believed to be mentally stored and r...

• Author(s): Sharon K. Deckert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a definitive introductory text to modern sociolinguistics that looks at the study of language and society through the conce...

• 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): Ken Lodge • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyA Critical Introduction to Phonetics presents core areas of the subject from refreshing new perspectives. It takes a new ...

• Author(s): Michael Hoey • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCorpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right, but little attention has been given to the theoretical perspec...

• 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): 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): 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): Alessandro G. Benati • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Study & TeachingProcessing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar i...

• 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 - GeneralFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into...

• 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): Christian Matthiessen • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe field of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a social semiotic approach to language pioneered by M. A. K. Halliday, which ...

• 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): 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): Silvia Luraghi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsOriginally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars wh...

• 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): 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): 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): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable an...

• 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): 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 ...