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  • Word on Words Word on Words
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    Word on Words

    Pat Toomay

    For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show's four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most...
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  • Inscrutable Eating Inscrutable Eating
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    Inscrutable Eating

    Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

    "You are what you eat," but what if you're seen as a rat eater, bat lover, or MSG user? In Inscrutable Eating, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier considers how everyday assumptions about Asian food influence...
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  • Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is
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    Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is

    Lisa Melonçon

    The rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines. While this makes it a source for rich and...
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  • Idioms Idioms
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    Idioms

    Dilin Liu

    This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with a balance of sound theory and extensive research in cognitive linguistics,...
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  • Referential Communication Tasks Referential Communication Tasks
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    Referential Communication Tasks

    George Yule

    Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is...
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  • Framing Discourse on the Environment Framing Discourse on the Environment
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    Framing Discourse on the Environment

    Richard Alexander

    In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues...
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  • Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts
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    Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts

    Markku Filppula

    Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical...
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  • Language in the Real World Language in the Real World
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    Language in the Real World

    Susan J. Behrens

    This resource book will introduce college students from other disciplines to the world of linguistics via the real world applications of the field. Students will engage with all the traditional areas...
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  • Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary
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    Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

    Phil Benson

    This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using...
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  • Caesar's Dē Bellō Gallicō
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    Caesar's Dē Bellō Gallicō

    Jean-François Mondon

    Caesar's Dē Bellō Gallicō: A Syntactically Parsed Reader is an innovative Latin reader presenting selections of Caesar's Gallic wars texts. Its unique approach tackles the two most common problems a...
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  • Authority in Language Authority in Language
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    Authority in Language

    James Milroy

    Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard...
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  • The Material Word (Routledge Revivals) The Material Word (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Material Word (Routledge Revivals)

    David Silverman

    First published in 1980, this reissue is a study of the sociology of language, which aims to bridge the gap between textbook and monograph by alternating chapters of explication and analysis.
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  • Kashmiri Kashmiri
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    Kashmiri

    Omkar N. Koul

    Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has...
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  • Playwriting Across the Curriculum Playwriting Across the Curriculum
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    Playwriting Across the Curriculum

    Caroline Jester

    This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors...
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  • Exploring Vocabulary Exploring Vocabulary
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    Exploring Vocabulary

    Dee Gardner

    The book aims to equip language teachers and professionals with a framework for dealing with the vocabulary needs of English language learners in a variety of contexts, for a range of learners.
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  • The Work of Life Writing The Work of Life Writing
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    The Work of Life Writing

    G. Thomas Couser

    Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on...
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  • Television in the Nursing Home Television in the Nursing Home
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    Television in the Nursing Home

    Wendy J Hajjar

    Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term...
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  • Force from Nietzsche to Derrida Force from Nietzsche to Derrida
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    Force from Nietzsche to Derrida

    Clare Connors

    In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche,...
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  • The Truth of Realism The Truth of Realism
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    The Truth of Realism

    John Walker

    This book is about the power of narrative realism as a critique of the ideology of inwardness in the German-speaking world. It answers the question: What kind of truth about reality does German...
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  • Re-contextualising East Central European History Re-contextualising East Central European History
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    Re-contextualising East Central European History

    Robert Pyrah

    This book focuses on the developments in research, national-historical narratives, and geographies of East Central Europe. It explores the emergence of specific discursive practices, architectures of...
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  • Language and Citizenship in Japan Language and Citizenship in Japan
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    Language and Citizenship in Japan

    Nanette Gottlieb

    The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity,' which in turn means 'Japanese as...
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  • Uncovering the Hidden Uncovering the Hidden
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    Uncovering the Hidden

    Gennady Estraikh

    The book is based on the papers presented at the Mendel Friedman Yiddish conference held at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, in August 2012, revisits the rich and diverse legacy of the...
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  • Laughter from Realism to Modernism Laughter from Realism to Modernism
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    Laughter from Realism to Modernism

    Alberto Godioli

    This book investigates the clash between social uniformity and personal anomalies as a key to understanding the functions of laughter in four major Italian authors from the early twentieth century,...
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  • Multimodal Epistemologies Multimodal Epistemologies
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    Multimodal Epistemologies

    Arianna Maiorani

    This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and...
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  • Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese
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    Prosodic Morphology in Mandarin Chinese

    Shengli Feng

    It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language. Although a disyllabic prosodic unit of some sort has long been considered by many to be at play in Chinese...
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  • A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology
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    A Study of Sino-Korean Phonology

    Youyong Qian

    The term Sino-Korean may refer to either the phonological system or vocabulary in Korean that is of Chinese origin. Along with the borrowing of Chinese characters, the Chinese readings of characters...
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  • Partition and Quantity Partition and Quantity
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    Partition and Quantity

    Jing Jin

    Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese...
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  • Mandarin Loanwords Mandarin Loanwords
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    Mandarin Loanwords

    Tae Eun Kim

    English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people's daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords...
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  • Successful Spoken English Successful Spoken English
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    Successful Spoken English

    Christian Jones

    Successful Spoken English demonstrates how spoken learner corpora can be used to define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that language learners can speak...
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  • Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia
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    Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

    Laura Siragusa

    This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly...
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  • Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
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    Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual

    Holly Cashman

    Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the...
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  • Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
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    Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life

    Elena Semino

    This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in...
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  • Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
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    Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

    Xiaofei Wang

    In the past decades, quotation theories have developed roughly along three lines-quotation types, meaning effects, and theoretical orientations toward the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Currently,...
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  • Aspects of Grammatical Architecture Aspects of Grammatical Architecture
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    Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

    Alain Rouveret

    This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena...
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  • The Diachrony of Verb Meaning The Diachrony of Verb Meaning
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    The Diachrony of Verb Meaning

    Elly van Gelderen

    This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author's previous body of work and...
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  • Interculturality in International Education Interculturality in International Education
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    Interculturality in International Education

    Jane Jackson

    This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the key issues and developments in study abroad research and practice with a specific focus on the intercultural and language...
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  • Language and Classification Language and Classification
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    Language and Classification

    Allison Burkette

    This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments within archaeology. The book looks...
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