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  • Learning to Write Learning to Write
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    Learning to Write

    First published in 1982, this influential and classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process? The book is based on a...
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  • Language, Ideology and Point of View Language, Ideology and Point of View
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    Language, Ideology and Point of View

    This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their...
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  • Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
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    Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

    Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study of their current use in English. Its particular focus is on a...
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  • The Meaning of Focus Particles The Meaning of Focus Particles
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    The Meaning of Focus Particles

    Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose numerous problems for current syntactic frameworks and semantic theories. This book presents a...
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  • Basque Phonology Basque Phonology
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    Basque Phonology

    This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of active phonological rules that are limited to certain morphological...
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  • Functional Categories and Parametric Variation Functional Categories and Parametric Variation
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    Functional Categories and Parametric Variation

    This book explores the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar'. From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we...
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  • Linguistic Ecology Linguistic Ecology
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    Linguistic Ecology

    In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a...
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  • Persian Persian
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    Persian

    Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This is the first comprehensive grammar of Persian and provides...
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  • Probability Statistics and Time Probability Statistics and Time
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    Probability Statistics and Time

    Some years ago when I. assembled a number of general articles and lectures on probability and statistics, their publication (Essays in Probability and Statistics, Methuen, London, 1962) received a some­ what better reception...
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  • Being at Genetic Risk Being at Genetic Risk
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    Being at Genetic Risk

    Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on...
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  • Typological Studies Typological Studies
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    Typological Studies

    In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position...
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  • Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
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    Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing

    "Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken...
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  • Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature
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    Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

    Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like...
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  • Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East
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    Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East

    Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East:• Introduces teachers to this literature and...
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  • Language, Ethnography, and Education Language, Ethnography, and Education
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    Language, Ethnography, and Education

    This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education. Integrating New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology...
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  • Lenition and Contrast Lenition and Contrast
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    Lenition and Contrast

    This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully...
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  • Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies? Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?
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    Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?

    Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is...
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  • Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age
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    Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

    It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our...
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  • Reclaiming Writing Reclaiming Writing
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    Reclaiming Writing

    With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula...
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  • Romani Writing Romani Writing
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    Romani Writing

    The Roma (commonly known as "Gypsies") have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group. However, as Romani Writing shows, the Roma have a deep understanding of literacy and its implications, and use writing for a...
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  • Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning
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    Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning

    This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a...
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  • Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children
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    Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children

    In this innovative and engaging text, Vivian Maria Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum...
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  • Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals) Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)
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    Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)

    J. L. Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers, Austin became through lectures and talks one of the...
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  • Evaluative Semantics Evaluative Semantics
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    Evaluative Semantics

    Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical,...
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  • The Equilibrium of Human Syntax The Equilibrium of Human Syntax
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    The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

    This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and...
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  • Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers
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    Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers

    How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical...
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  • Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self
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    Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self

    Today's youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how...
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  • Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language
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    Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language

    This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful...
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  • New Methods of Literacy Research New Methods of Literacy Research
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    New Methods of Literacy Research

    Literacy researchers at all stages of their careers are designing and developing innovative new methods for analyzing data in a range of spaces in and out of school. Directly connected with evolving themes in literacy research, theory, instruction, and...
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  • Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals) Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)
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    Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)

    This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter...
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  • Telicity and Durativity Telicity and Durativity
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    Telicity and Durativity

    This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an...
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  • Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism
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    Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism

    Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important...
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  • Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics
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    Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics

    Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics. With a focus on the actual methods, designs, and techniques...
    $423.23

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  • Arabic Rhetoric Arabic Rhetoric
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    Arabic Rhetoric

    Arabic Rhetoric explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. It offers a new understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic as well as providing a glossary of over 448...
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  • The Linguistics of Laughter The Linguistics of Laughter
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    The Linguistics of Laughter

    The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce...
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  • Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows
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    Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

    The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of...
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  • Investigating Classroom Discourse Investigating Classroom Discourse
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    Investigating Classroom Discourse

    Introducing language use and interaction as the basis of good teaching and learning, this invaluable book equips teachers and researchers with the tools to analyze classroom discourse and move towards more effective instruction. Presenting an overview...
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  • Translation and Identity Translation and Identity
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    Translation and Identity

    Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national...
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