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• Author(s): Mieczyslaw Jerz Künstler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Künstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. ...

• Author(s): Fiona English • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? Providing the essential tools with which to a...

• Author(s): Nigel Armstrong • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book takes a linguistic approach to translation issues. It includes chapters on the struct...

• Author(s): Rebecca S. Wheeler • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe essays in this book help to make sense of the workings of language in our everyday world--on the personal,...

• Author(s): Kees de Bot | Wander Lowie | Marjolijn Verspoor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSecond Language Acquisition: introduces the key areas in the field, including multilingualism, the r...

• Author(s): Jordan Davidson • Publisher: States Academic Press • Publisher Imprint: States Academic Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe scientific study of language which involves the analysis of the form and meaning of language is known as ...

• Author(s): Andrey Rosowsky • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: LiteracyThis book offers an introduction to the commonly observed, but generally ignored or misrepresented, practice of using language...

• Author(s): Michael C. Shapiro | Harold F. Schiffman • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Language and Society in South Asia".

• Author(s): Luis Eguren | Olga Fernandez-Soriano | Amaya Mendikoetxea • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsParameters of linguistic variation were originally ...

• Author(s): Beatrix Busse | Ruth Moehlig-Falke • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDespite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of pattern has receiv...

• Author(s): Mark Van de Velde • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralWritten by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, co...

• Author(s): Victor Golla • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "American Indian Languages 2".

• Author(s): Carol Genetti • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsLanguage is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and ex...

• Author(s): William Downes • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage and Religion offers an innovative theory of religion as a class of cultural representations...

• Author(s): Sergio Loza • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis innovative, timely text introduces the theory, research, and classroom application of critical approaches to the teaching...

• Author(s): David McNeill | Jr. McNeill David • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thoug...

• Author(s): Joshua A. Fishman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethni...

• Author(s): Louanna Furbee-Losee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDefinitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the...

• Author(s): Vicky Chondrogianni | Ciara O'Toole | Enlli Thomas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn recent times, there has been a growing interest in how Celtic...

• Author(s): Kaz Deprez • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsNo detailed description available for "Language and Intergroup Relations in Flanders and the Netherlands".

• Author(s): Lorraine McCune • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralStudies of language acquisition often assume that children will simply begin to learn language, without q...

• Author(s): Martin Trautwein • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFocusing on English and German examples, the study deals with the temporal interpretation of texts in non-aspect languages. The ...

• Author(s): Zsofia Demjen • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAll aspects of illness and healthcare are mediated by language: experiences of illness, death and healthcare provis...

• Author(s): Hyejeong Ahn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsIn their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as we...

• Author(s): Gregory D.S. Anderson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten m...

• Author(s): Ralph W. Fasold | Jeffrey Connor-Linton • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralA clear and up-to-date introduction to linguistics. This best-selling textbook addresses ...

• Author(s): Jacek Fisiak | Maria Dakowska • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe author addresses key questions of foreign l...

• Author(s): Peter Jordens • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralResearch on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a sec...

• Author(s): Robin Cooper | Ruth Kempson • Publisher: College Publications • Publisher Imprint: College Publications • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe papers in this collection present a view of language as an evolving system within which flexibi...

• Author(s): Ian Roberts | Ian G. Roberts • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an introduction to syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. Generative diachronic syntax ha...

• Author(s): Ken Cruickshank | Linda Tsung • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingOffers the most comprehensive national study of community and heritage language sc...

• Author(s): Joseph C. Hill | Diane C. Lillo-Martin | Sandra K. Wood • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sign LanguageSign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguist...

• Author(s): Danae Maria Perez • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeIn the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have ...

• Author(s): Timothy Shopen • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and mor...

• Author(s): Niladri Sekhar Dash • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, cal...

• Author(s): Tove Skutnabb-Kangas | Robert Phillipson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralResearch on Language Rights has produced an enormous--and unwieldy--corpus of literature. Such work often ha...