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  • Media Were American Media Were American
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    Media Were American

    In 1977, Jeremy Tunstall published the landmark The Media Are American. In it, he argued that while much of the mass media originated in Europe and elsewhere, the United States dominated global media because nearly every mass medium became industrialized...
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  • An Introduction to Child Language Development An Introduction to Child Language Development
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    An Introduction to Child Language Development

    This volume introduces the field of child language development studies, and presents hypotheses in an accessible, largely non-technical language, aiming to demonstrate the relationship between these hypotheses and interpretations of data. It makes the...
    $130.36

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  • Alphabet to Email Alphabet to Email
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    Alphabet to Email

    In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality.Drawing together strands...
    $117.92

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  • On Shell Structure On Shell Structure
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    On Shell Structure

    This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure.
    $384.20

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  • Language Through Literature Language Through Literature
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    Language Through Literature

    Paul Simpson provides a definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English Literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and drama, this book offers a lively and accessible guide to important concepts and...
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  • Variety in Written English Variety in Written English
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    Variety in Written English

    Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of...
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  • A History of the French Language A History of the French Language
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    A History of the French Language

    This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated throughout, and the two final chapters on...
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  • A Social History of English A Social History of English
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    A Social History of English

    A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism,...
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  • A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity
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    A Referential Theory of Truth and Falsity

    This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure.Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This...
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  • Introducing M.A.K. Halliday Introducing M.A.K. Halliday
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    Introducing M.A.K. Halliday

    M.A.K. Halliday (1925-2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential linguists of his time, credited with changing the way that language and linguistics have been taught. SFL, as an...
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  • Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres
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    Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres

    Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a...
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  • Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English
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    Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English

    Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy,...
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  • Multimodality in Practice Multimodality in Practice
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    Multimodality in Practice

    In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical,...
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  • Corpus Analysis in Different Genres Corpus Analysis in Different Genres
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    Corpus Analysis in Different Genres

    This collection sheds light on the ways in which corpus linguistics and the use of learner corpora might be applied to the study of academic discourse, revealing linguistic and rhetorical patterns and insights into variation across a range of...
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  • The Coherence of Linguistic Communities The Coherence of Linguistic Communities
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    The Coherence of Linguistic Communities

    This innovative collection brings together a range of perspectives on the notions of "orderly heterogeneity" and "social meaning", shedding light on how structured variation and indexicalities of social meaning "cohere" within linguistic communities...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference
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    The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

    This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about. The volume's forty-one original...
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  • Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias
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    Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias

    Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias presents research combining a range of corpus-linguistic techniques which are employed to analyse how migration discourse is (re)constructed in the contemporary British press. Two specialised corpora containing...
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  • Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel
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    Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel

    This book advocates for a new analytical framework that extends our understanding of multimodal meaning-making in the novel. Integrating theoretical traditions from stylistics and the influential social semiotic approach to multimodal communication...
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  • Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II
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    Practical Grammar of Modern Chinese II

    Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's...
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  • Language Diversity in the Sinophone World Language Diversity in the Sinophone World
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    Language Diversity in the Sinophone World

    Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone...
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  • De-Gendering Gendered Occupations De-Gendering Gendered Occupations
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    De-Gendering Gendered Occupations

    De-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The...
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  • The Rhetoric of Literary Communication The Rhetoric of Literary Communication
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    The Rhetoric of Literary Communication

    Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th-century English novels through to...
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  • Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies
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    Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies

    This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the...
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  • A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning
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    A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning

    This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning. Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as small stories of the moment, which are organized around transgressive...
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  • Meaning and Analysis Meaning and Analysis
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    Meaning and Analysis

    This book explores how three groups of girls from varying backgrounds, including a prestigious public school, London's East End and the British Bangladeshi community, negotiate discursive practices and identities in their spontaneous talk about dating,...
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  • The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
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    The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism

    List of Figures List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Eighteenth-Century English Grammars and the Subjunctive Mood The Subjunctive Mood in Eighteenth-Century England: A Corpus Study Eighteenth-Century German Grammars and the...
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  • Galician and Irish in the European Context Galician and Irish in the European Context
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    Galician and Irish in the European Context

    This book is the first sociological and feminist critique of multicultural theory and practice. Using empirical research, it answers the question: is multiculturalism bad for women? arguing that it is not only bad for (minority ethnic) women, but for...
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  • Multilingual Identities in a Global City Multilingual Identities in a Global City
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    Multilingual Identities in a Global City

    This book begins with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities. It then turns to four detailed case studies and through them explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identitites of...
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  • Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China
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    Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China

    List of Maps, Figures and Tables Foreword: J.Cleverley Preface Series Editor's Preface Abbreviations Introduction Profile Minorities in the Past: Historical Experience New Policies and Practice under Communism Minority Language Issues under the Open Door...
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  • Explicit Communication Explicit Communication
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    Explicit Communication

    This collection of essays brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic underdeterminacy, the explicit/implicit divide...
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  • Metaphor and Discourse Metaphor and Discourse
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    Metaphor and Discourse

    The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive...
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  • Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices
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    Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices

    The contributors investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between...
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  • New Ethnicities and Language Use New Ethnicities and Language Use
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    New Ethnicities and Language Use

    The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this sensibility...
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  • Spanish at Work Spanish at Work
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    Spanish at Work

    Spanish at Work is the first book examining the discourse practices of institutions in the Spanish-speaking world. It focuses on three 'umbrella' institutions (the mass-media, politics and the workplace), each of which are explored through a discrete...
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  • Gender and Spoken Interaction Gender and Spoken Interaction
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    Gender and Spoken Interaction

    Gender and Spoken Interaction presents a diverse collection of language and gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction. The volume explores how gender is accomplished and reflected in spoken interaction, in relation to other...
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  • Translating Popular Film Translating Popular Film
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    Translating Popular Film

    Translating Popular Film is a ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenizing use of English, and asks what are the...
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