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  • Investigating Intimate Discourse

    Exploring the spoken interaction of families, couples and friends

    by Brian Clancy ...
    Series series Domains of Discourse
    Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships.Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Introducing Pragmatics in Use

    by Anne O'Keeffe, Brian Clancy, Svenja Adolphs ...
    Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook systematically draws on a number of different language corpora and the corresponding software applications. Its primary focus is the application of a corpus methodology in order to examine core component areas such as deixis, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World

    by Jag Bhalla ...
    "I'm not hanging noodles on your ears." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you're Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I'm not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me. As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how different cultures ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Slang

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Language for Specific Purposes

    Trends in Curriculum Development

    by Mary K. Long, Lourdes Sanchez-Lopez, Barbara A. Lafford, Mary Risner, Melissa Swarr, Cristin Bleess, Janet Graham, Carmen King Ramírez, Leann Derby, Jean W. LeLoup0, James Rasmussen1, Ismênia Sales de Souza2, Robert A. Quinn3, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker4, Anthony Becker5, El-Hussein Ali6, Annie Abbott7, Mary Jill Brody8, Alison Hicks9 ...
    In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more ... Read more

    $40.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociolinguistics in Scotland

    Edited by R. Lawson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Sociolinguistics in Scotland presents a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic research in Scotland and showcases developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, highlighting Scotland's position as a valuable 'sociolinguistic laboratory'. This book is a key resource for those interested in language use in Scotland. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore

    From Colonialism to Nationalism

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of language. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The State of American Thought: Ensnared in a fallacious liberal-conservative dichotomy

    by Ethan Sewall ...
    The state of American thought: Ensnared in a fallacious liberal-conservative dichotomy is a book in two parts. The first part, Deconstructing social construction: Embracing ecumenical humanism, is a theoretical framework of American culture that investigates the way we human Subjects have constructed our social reality. Its purpose is to expose and facilitate the eradication of negative building ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language Difference

    by Paulin G. DJITE ...
    Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Galician and Irish in the European Context

    Attitudes Towards Weak and Strong Minority Languages

    by B. O'Rourke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Language Vitality Through Bible Translation

    Edited by Marianne Beerle-Moor, Vitaly Voinov ...
    Series Book 95 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy but non-empowered. Bible translation and activities typically associated with it, such as ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Revisiting Metaphors in International Relations Theory

    by Michael P. Marks ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations. It acknowledges the fact that theory and practice in international relations often rest on common metaphorical concepts which have implications for the ways people around the world pursue their lives. Because of the increased attention metaphors have received as integral elements in ... Read more

    $80.09 USD