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  • Translation in Modern Japan Translation in Modern Japan
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    Translation in Modern Japan

    The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal...
    $146.49

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  • The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia
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    The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia

    The Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume Encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The seventy nine articles provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field,...
    $168.04

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  • Hiphop Literacies Hiphop Literacies
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    Hiphop Literacies

    Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture...
    $372.01

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  • The Research Project The Research Project
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    The Research Project

    Now in its fifth edition, this guide to project work continues to be an indispensable resource for all students undertaking research.Guiding the reader right through from preliminary stages to completion, The Research Project: How to write it sets out in...
    $236.62

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  • The Language of Postcolonial Literatures The Language of Postcolonial Literatures
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    The Language of Postcolonial Literatures

    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.The Language of Postcolonial Literatures draws on a range of writers, from Jean Rhys and Derek Walcott to Chinua Achebe,...
    $372.01

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  • Innovation in English Language Teaching Innovation in English Language Teaching
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    Innovation in English Language Teaching

    This reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed, developed and evaluated.The commissioned and classic texts place curriculum change in a philosophical...
    $372.01

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  • Contemporary British Novelists Contemporary British Novelists
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    Contemporary British Novelists

    Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry...
    $295.16

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  • On Language Change On Language Change
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    On Language Change

    In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that,...
    $122.89

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  • Language in History Language in History
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    Language in History

    In Language in History, Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and...
    $130.36

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  • Beyond Superstructuralism Beyond Superstructuralism
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    Beyond Superstructuralism

    Moving on from his previous book, Superstructuralism , Richard Harland argues that the focus on single words in the structuralist theory of language is its key weakness and that the next advance beyond post-structuralism depends upon replacing word-based...
    $162.22

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  • Nominalizations Nominalizations
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    Nominalizations

    Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal...
    $384.20

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  • Twentieth-Century Poetry Twentieth-Century Poetry
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    Twentieth-Century Poetry

    This textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to the practice of literary stylistics. It is based on extensive teaching experience, and makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice...
    $96.82

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  • Generative Phonology Generative Phonology
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    Generative Phonology

    "Generative Phonology" offers an overview of the post-SPE theory of generative phonology and is suitable for linguists not specializing in phonology, who want to keep abreast of the latest developments in the subject. It deals with all the major trends...
    $139.05

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  • The Language of Jokes The Language of Jokes
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    The Language of Jokes

    In this highly readable and thought-provoking book, Delia Chiaro explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Using examples from personally recorded conversations, she examines the structure of...
    $104.28

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  • Malayalam Malayalam
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    Malayalam

    Malayalam is one of the four major Dravidian languages spoken principally in the southern part of India. It has a recorded history of eight centuries and is spoken by more than thirty million people on the Malabar coast of southern IndiaThis is the first...
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  • Turkish Turkish
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    Turkish

    Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are...
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  • Common Conditions in Gynaecology Common Conditions in Gynaecology
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    Common Conditions in Gynaecology

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  • The Shetland Dialect The Shetland Dialect
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    The Shetland Dialect

    The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct. It displays distinct, characteristic features on all linguistic levels and particularly in its sound system, or its phonology. The...
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  • Sociopragmatics of Japanese Sociopragmatics of Japanese
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    Sociopragmatics of Japanese

    Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Their book proposes a framework for exploring sociopragmatic phenomena, building on the key sociopragmatic...
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  • Material Interculturality Material Interculturality
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    Material Interculturality

    This book shows how objects can create new linguistic and cultural orders, spotlighting the ways in which everyday collections help make the world anew by rearranging its materiality and multilingual speakers make meanings without words.
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  • Kinesemiotics Kinesemiotics
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    Kinesemiotics

    This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by...
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  • Externalization Externalization
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    Externalization

    This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning...
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  • A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
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    A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

    The terminology used in linguistics can be confusing for those encountering the subject for the first time. This dictionary provides accessible and authoritative explanations of the terms and concepts currently in use in all the major areas of language...
    $99.31

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  • Acquisition of Second Language Syntax Acquisition of Second Language Syntax
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    Acquisition of Second Language Syntax

    The issue of syntactic development is one of the most central in both linguistics and applied linguistics. Assuming no detailed background knowledge of linguistics, this is an introduction to the acquisition of syntax in a second language. The text...
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  • The Subject of Speech Perception The Subject of Speech Perception
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    The Subject of Speech Perception

    Review of Research on Human Speech Perception - Cognitivist Philosophy - Phenomenological Philosophy - Subject and World - Towards a New Framework - Notes - Index
    $219.36

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  • Translating Poetry Translating Poetry
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    Translating Poetry

    Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Translating La Cepp de; K.Bosley - J nos Pilinszky's 'Desert of Love': A Note; J.Csokits - A Postscript; T.Hughes - Kafka and the Golem: Translating Paul Celan; J.Felstiner - Brief Afterthoughts on Versions of a Poem...
    $269.79

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  • A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
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    A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology

    Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2,000 terms in phonetics and phonology. In addition to providing a comprehensive, yet concise, guide to an enormous number of individual terms, it...
    $151.46

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  • The Dialects of Italy The Dialects of Italy
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    The Dialects of Italy

    This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory. Selected contents include: * Phonology * Morphology *...
    $563.49

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  • The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
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    The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction

    Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction.Building on the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences,...
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  • Language and Control in Children's Literature Language and Control in Children's Literature
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    Language and Control in Children's Literature

    This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial...
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