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• Author(s): Edward Sapir • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: Speech & PronunciationEdward Sapir was an early 20th century leader in the field of linguists. He was a leader in American structural linguistics, an...

• Author(s): Zoltan Kovecses • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHow do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meanin...

• Author(s): Susan M. Gass • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: Speech & PronunciationNow in its sixth edition, this bestselling textbook remains the cornerstone for the study ...

• Author(s): Joseph H. Greenberg | William Croft • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's lang...

• Author(s): Jean S. Peccei • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBuilding on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory c...

• Author(s): Henry Widdowson • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe globalized use of language calls into question conventional ways of thinking in linguistics, applied linguistics ...

• Author(s): Jenny Larsson | Thomas Olander | Anders R. Jørgensen • Publisher: Stockholm University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stockholm University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeCurrent scientific advances are reshaping...

• Author(s): Zane Goebel • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relation...

• Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsContact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers u...

• Author(s): Roger D. Woodard • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages (see also Latin)This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient L...

• Author(s): Aaron D. Rubin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: African Languages (see also Swahili)Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages sp...

• Author(s): Xi Xiang • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe eight-volume set systematically studies the phonetic and lexical system and evolution of the Chinese la...

• Author(s): Masayoshi Shibatani | Theodora Bynon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questi...

• Author(s): Daniela Isac • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralI-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth sty...

• Author(s): Paul Booth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection brings together recent research on the influences between first and additional languages with a focus on the de...

• Author(s): Judith Aissen | Nora England | Roberto Zavala Maldonado • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JournalismThe Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic M...

• Author(s): Patrick Griffiths | Andrew John Merrison | Aileen Bloomer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReadersDesigned for introductory students, this collection of key readings in language and linguistics will take...

• Author(s): Stephen Everson | Stephen Everson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn recent years philosophers have radically reappraised the importance and sophis...

• Author(s): Kathryn a. T. Knox • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsHave you ever wondered why languages are so diverse ...

• Author(s): Marcus Kracht • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFrom the Back CoverThis book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'. This notion, first posited b...

• 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): Jeffrey Punske | Nathan Sanders | Amy V. Fountain • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsThis book is the first to explore the varied ways in which in...

• Author(s): J. Vendryes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsOriginally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was p...

• Author(s): Lutz Marten • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is different from the tasks of spe...

• Author(s): C-T James Huang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditio...

• Author(s): Colin P. Masica • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousIn his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Masica has provided a fundamental, comparative introdu...

• Author(s): Niladri Sekhar Dash • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a co...

• Author(s): Rhonda Oliver | Jenefer Philp • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageReferencing classroom-based research, Focus on Oral Interaction looks at the contrib...

• Author(s): Terry Crowley | Nick Thieberger • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCrowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to d...

• Author(s): Suresh Canagarajah • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis book explores how English is used in periphery communities, while subtly resisting the lin...

• Author(s): Merritt Ruhlen • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a series of illuminating studies which conclusively demonstrates that the prevailin...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousAboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through ex...

• Author(s): Glanville Price • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an authoritative reference guide to all the languages of Europe, covering nearly three hundred languages and lang...

• Author(s): Ali Nourai • Publisher: Xlibris • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Sonja Lanehart • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesThe goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of an...