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  • Framing Discourse on the Environment Framing Discourse on the Environment
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    Framing Discourse on the Environment

    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. Relying upon a variety of different text types and...
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  • Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric
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    Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric

    Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges...
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  • Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts
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    Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts

    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 backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book...
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  • Language and the Market Society Language and the Market Society
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    Language and the Market Society

    Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society-a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and...
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  • Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices
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    Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

    Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure...
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  • Language in the Real World Language in the Real World
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    Language in the Real World

    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 of linguistics in an inductive, illustrative, and...
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  • Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary
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    Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

    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 theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson...
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  • Authority in Language Authority in Language
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    Authority in Language

    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 English in Britain and compare the language ideologies...
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  • The Material Word (Routledge Revivals) The Material Word (Routledge Revivals)
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    The Material Word (Routledge Revivals)

    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

    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 raised many significant issues within current generative...
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  • Exploring Vocabulary Exploring Vocabulary
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    Exploring Vocabulary

    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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  • Truth and Speech Acts Truth and Speech Acts
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    Truth and Speech Acts

    Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts. This book fills that...
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  • Oral Narration in Modern French Oral Narration in Modern French
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    Oral Narration in Modern French

    This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, as well as broader questions...
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  • Language and Citizenship in Japan Language and Citizenship in Japan
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    Language and Citizenship in Japan

    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 one's first language.' Historically, most non-Japanese...
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  • Multimodal Epistemologies Multimodal Epistemologies
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    Multimodal Epistemologies

    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 cultural stances inform communicative contexts across...
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  • Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities
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    Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities

    Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents' everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the...
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  • Successful Spoken English Successful Spoken English
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    Successful Spoken English

    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 effectively whilst still using some non-standard...
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  • Standardizing Minority Languages Standardizing Minority Languages
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    Standardizing Minority Languages

    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely...
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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

    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 neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality...
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  • Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
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    Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual

    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 book is to examine participants' conceptions of their...
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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

    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 the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic...
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  • Language Contact and the Future of English Language Contact and the Future of English
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    Language Contact and the Future of English

    This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and...
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  • Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
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    Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

    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, whether the quoted expression is truth-conditionally...
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  • Aspects of Grammatical Architecture Aspects of Grammatical Architecture
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    Aspects of Grammatical Architecture

    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 that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come...
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  • The Diachrony of Verb Meaning The Diachrony of Verb Meaning
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    The Diachrony of Verb Meaning

    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 new research, the book explores the complex dynamic...
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  • Interculturality in International Education Interculturality in International Education
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    Interculturality in International Education

    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 learning dimensions of the study abroad experience. Rather...
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  • Language and Classification Language and Classification
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    Language and Classification

    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 specifically at the archaeological classification of ceramics...
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  • Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics
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    Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics

    This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications...
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  • The Language of Money The Language of Money
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    The Language of Money

    Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial...
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  • Understanding Metaphor through Corpora Understanding Metaphor through Corpora
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    Understanding Metaphor through Corpora

    This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language. The volume questions the...
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  • Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery
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    Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery

    The title seeks to show how people are embedded culturally, socially and linguistically in a certain peripheral geographical location, yet are also able to roam widely in their use and takeup of a variety of linguistic and cultural resources. Drawing on...
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  • Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items
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    Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items

    Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages. Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the downward-entailing hypothesis as its analytical...
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  • Modern Chinese Parts of Speech Modern Chinese Parts of Speech
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    Modern Chinese Parts of Speech

    Classification of parts of speech in Chinese is tough due to the lack of morphological differences, and thus is short of in-depth investigation and exploration. Based on the analysis and research of nearly 40,000 Chinese characters, this book elaborates...
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  • Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning
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    Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning

    This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each...
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  • Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching
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    Metacognition in Language Learning and Teaching

    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This volume offers an exhaustive look at the...
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  • Screens and Scenes Screens and Scenes
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    Screens and Scenes

    This book examines the relationships between online visual interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online communication and its implications for educational practice...
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  • Discourse and Mental Health Discourse and Mental Health
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    Discourse and Mental Health

    This book is the result of years of fieldwork at a public hospital located in an immigrant neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in access to mental healthcare through the discourse...
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  • Multilayer Corpus Studies Multilayer Corpus Studies
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    Multilayer Corpus Studies

    This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how...
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  • Language Management and Its Impact Language Management and Its Impact
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    Language Management and Its Impact

    This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic approach grounded in language management theory. As a global language promotion organization, Confucius...
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  • A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation
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    A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation

    This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only...
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  • Language and Culture on the Margins Language and Culture on the Margins
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    Language and Culture on the Margins

    This collection of essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural...
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  • Discourses of (De)Legitimization Discourses of (De)Legitimization
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    Discourses of (De)Legitimization

    This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and delegitimization in contemporary participatory cultures. The book draws on multiple theoretical traditions...
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  • The Politics of English in Hong Kong The Politics of English in Hong Kong
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    The Politics of English in Hong Kong

    The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong. The book is the first study to track real time language attitude changes against a divisive political landscape. It is also the most comprehensive study of...
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  • The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry
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    The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry

    This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not be...
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