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  • The Semantics of the Future The Semantics of the Future
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    The Semantics of the Future

    This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a...
    $147.97

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  • Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure
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    Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure...
    $152.99

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  • Local Literacies Local Literacies
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    Local Literacies

    Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their...
    $401.63

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  • Analysing Power in Language Analysing Power in Language
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    Analysing Power in Language

    Analysing Power in Language introduces students to a range of analytical techniques for the critical study of texts.Each section of the book provides an in-depth presentation of a different method of analysis with worked examples and texts for students...
    $124.13

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  • Media Literacy Education in Action Media Literacy Education in Action
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    Media Literacy Education in Action

    Media Literacy Education in Action brings together the field's leading scholars and advocates to present a snapshot of the theoretical and conceptual development of media literacy education-what has influenced it, current trends, and ideas about its...
    $131.67

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  • The Grammar of Irish English The Grammar of Irish English
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    The Grammar of Irish English

    Irish English, also termed 'Anglo-Irish' or 'Hiberno-English', as in this book, is not usually perceived as having a grammatical system of its own. Markku Filppula here challenges this misconception and offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account...
    $388.08

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  • Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication
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    Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication

    This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new...
    $124.11

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  • Peirce's Speculative Grammar Peirce's Speculative Grammar
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    Peirce's Speculative Grammar

    Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce's grammatical writings...
    $114.10

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  • Rhetorical Realism Rhetorical Realism
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    Rhetorical Realism

    Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself...
    $114.10

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  • Discourse and the Translator Discourse and the Translator
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    Discourse and the Translator

    Discourse and the Translator both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation. Its logical and informative approach to the problems of translation ensures that it will be essential for all those who work with languages 'in contact'...
    $127.87

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  • English and the Discourses of Colonialism English and the Discourses of Colonialism
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    English and the Discourses of Colonialism

    English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit masks the crucial issue that the traces left by colonialism run deep...
    $129.16

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  • The Qur'an, Translation and the Media The Qur'an, Translation and the Media
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    The Qur'an, Translation and the Media

    This book aims to identify how the Qur'an is narrated in and by the press media through the use of translation, featuring examples from a corpus of newspaper articles from the UK and Europe across two decades.Drawing on work at the intersection of...
    $375.76

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  • Languages in the Crossfire Languages in the Crossfire
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    Languages in the Crossfire

    This book sheds light on the important role played by interpreters during the Spanish Civil War, offering a historical overview of the ways in which interpreters on both sides mediated the myriad linguistic, cultural, and ethical difficulties of wartime...
    $375.76

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  • Multilingualism in Education in Nepal Multilingualism in Education in Nepal
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    Multilingualism in Education in Nepal

    This book explores the development of multilingual policy in education in Nepal in sociopolitical and historical contexts and examines the frameworks of language use in schools. It investigates the dynamics and factors that influence the process of...
    $372.01

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  • Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition
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    Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition

    Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels.It...
    $96.82

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  • Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics
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    Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics

    Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring. The volume...
    $372.01

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  • Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes
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    Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes

    This textbook introduces current thinking on English as a global language and explores its role in intercultural and transcultural communication. It covers how English functions as a lingua franca in multilingual scenarios alongside other languages in a...
    $104.28

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  • Queering Translation History Queering Translation History
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    Queering Translation History

    This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline in order to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and...
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  • English and Translation in the European Union English and Translation in the European Union
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    English and Translation in the European Union

    This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the interplay between the rise of English as a lingua franca and the effacement of translations in EU...
    $372.01

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  • Collaborative Poetry Translation Collaborative Poetry Translation
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    Collaborative Poetry Translation

    This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the "Poettrio" method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as...
    $375.76

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  • The Discourse of Sport The Discourse of Sport
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    The Discourse of Sport

    This collection brings together innovative research from socially-oriented applied linguists working in sports. Drawing on contemporary approaches to applied linguistics, this book provides readers with in-depth analyses of examples of...
    $124.13

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  • Righting the Mother Tongue Righting the Mother Tongue
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    Righting the Mother Tongue

    When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a...
    $25.68

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  • Labels for Locals Labels for Locals
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    Labels for Locals

    In our globally interconnected age, misnaming where someone is from or the cultural group to which they belong often constitutes more than a harmless social gaffe. Labels for Locals provides guidance on the preferred, and sometimes disdained, names for...
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  • The Story of Yiddish The Story of Yiddish
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    The Story of Yiddish

    A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together.Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Incorporating antique German dialects and elements...
    $29.18

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  • Language Ethics Language Ethics
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    Language Ethics

    Language is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics. Studies are predominantly carried out in isolated...
    $59.29

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  • Robert Burton’s Rhetoric Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
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    Robert Burton’s Rhetoric

    Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and...
    $77.60

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  • Existential Semiotics Existential Semiotics
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    Existential Semiotics

    Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.
    $86.90

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  • Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
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    Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology

    This book presents a comprehensive, data-rich, theory-neutral description of English word formation, including inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and such minor processes as subtractive morphology. It also offers analyses of the...
    $264.08

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  • Acquiring Pragmatics Acquiring Pragmatics
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    Acquiring Pragmatics

    Acquiring Pragmatics offers a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research on the acquisition of pragmatics. It introduces the current topics of research in theoretical pragmatics and explores the issues they raise for language acquisition...
    $413.95

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  • Corpus Linguistics for Grammar Corpus Linguistics for Grammar
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    Corpus Linguistics for Grammar

    Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need...
    $413.95

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  • Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction
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    Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction

    This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate...
    $388.08

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  • Comparative Law - Engaging Translation Comparative Law - Engaging Translation
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    Comparative Law - Engaging Translation

    In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate. The following situations are...
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  • Nexus Analysis Nexus Analysis
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    Nexus Analysis

    Nexus Analysis presents an exciting theory by two of the leading names in discourse analysis and provides a practical guide to its application. The authors argue that discourse analysis can itself be a form of social action. If the discourse analyst is...
    $122.76

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  • Multiliteracies
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    Multiliteracies

    Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. Questions are raised about what constitutes appropriate literacy teaching in today's world: a world that is both a global village yet one...
    $119.12

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