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  • The Language of Jury Trial The Language of Jury Trial
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    The Language of Jury Trial

    Drawing on representative corpora of transcripts from over 100 English criminal jury trials, this stimulating new book explores the nature of 'legal-lay discourse', or the language used by legal professionals before lay juries. Careful analyses of genres...
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  • Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
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    Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora

    A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for...
    $184.00

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  • Language Rights Language Rights
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    Language Rights

    Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas. The author argues that international language rights...
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  • Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language
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    Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language

    Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers. This book observes individuals performing similar tasks in their first and their foreign language and...
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  • Metaphor and Iconicity Metaphor and Iconicity
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    Metaphor and Iconicity

    Metaphor and Iconicity attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from a cognitive perspective. There are various degrees in which metaphor and iconicity manifest themselves,...
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  • Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
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    Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

    In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed...
    $220.00

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  • Europe and the Politics of Language Europe and the Politics of Language
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    Europe and the Politics of Language

    Do political boundaries impact on concepts of language? How significant is language for citizenship in contemporary Europe? Can disputed languages acquire full status? Should non-European languages receive recognition from the EU? These are among the...
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  • Investigating Dickens' Style Investigating Dickens' Style
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    Investigating Dickens' Style

    This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations. It offers new insights into Dickens' linguistic...
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  • Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition
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    Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition

    Much research has been done on the social messages conveyed to children reading or listening to fairy tales. In this highly original study, the emphasis shifts from content to linguistic expression. The language and linguistic organization of a dozen...
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  • Isolation and Language Change Isolation and Language Change
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    Isolation and Language Change

    Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a...
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  • The Extent of the Literal The Extent of the Literal
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    The Extent of the Literal

    The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of standard assumptions concerning the...
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  • Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian
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    Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian

    First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in...
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  • Teaching and Researching Speaking Teaching and Researching Speaking
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    Teaching and Researching Speaking

    Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The history and current practices of teaching and researching...
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  • Towards a Contextual Grammar of English Towards a Contextual Grammar of English
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    Towards a Contextual Grammar of English

    This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
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  • Discipline-Specific Writing Discipline-Specific Writing
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    Discipline-Specific Writing

    Discipline-Specific Writing provides an introduction and guide to the teaching of this topic for students and trainee teachers. This book highlights the importance of discipline-specific writing as a critical area of competence for students, and covers...
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  • The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism
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    The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism

    This book provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.  The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for citizenship is key reading for...
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  • Touch in Social Interaction Touch in Social Interaction
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    Touch in Social Interaction

    Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The authors focus on how different forms of touch are...
    $114.00

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  • Everyday Language and Everyday Life Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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    Everyday Language and Everyday Life

    For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes...
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  • Writing for Engineering and Science Students Writing for Engineering and Science Students
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    Writing for Engineering and Science Students

    Writing for Engineering and Science Students is a clear and practical guide for anyone undertaking either academic or technical writing. This book is essential reading for all students of science and engineering who are taking a course in writing or...
    $373.00

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  • The Sociolinguistics Reader The Sociolinguistics Reader
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    The Sociolinguistics Reader

    The Sociolinguistics Reader presents a state-of-the-art account of the discipline in the closing years of the twentieth century.Volume 2: Gender and Discourse in the first section looks at patterns of language variation, examining how gender identities...
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  • Language in Indenture Language in Indenture
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    Language in Indenture

    Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a political act with far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. In this book, the history of one of...
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    Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts

    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences.The book outlines the...
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    Jin Chinese Grammar II

    This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.
    $111.00

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  • Jin Chinese Grammar I
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    Jin Chinese Grammar I

    This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of the pronouns, the aspect and appearance, and the tense...
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    Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

    Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues. The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of...
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    Machine Learning in Translation

    Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes, approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for...
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    Lexical Innovation in World Englishes

    Winner of the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsLexical Innovation in World Englishes contributes to the investigation of World Englishes by offering insights into the lexical developments of selected English varieties and...
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    Hands-On Literacy, Grade 6

    This practical resource is a compendium of authentic and hands-on literacy activities that will engage, challenge, and delight students. Specifically targeting Grade 6, these lessons and strategies enhance literacy instruction and encourage critical...
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    Hands-On Literacy, Grade 5

    This practical resource is a compendium of authentic and hands-on literacy activities that will engage, challenge, and delight students. Specifically targeting Grade 5, these lessons and strategies enhance literacy instruction and encourage critical...
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    Language, Diaspora, Home

    This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of...
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    Plurilingual Pedagogy in the Arabian Peninsula

    This edited collection explores plurilingual education in the unique English medium instruction (EMI) context of the Arabian Peninsula. The book argues that integrating a plurilingual pedagogy alongside current EMI in the region could enhance students'...
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne...
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    Philosophical Representation

    This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations. It argues in favor of an instrumentalist attitude towards pivotal cases of theoretical representation in philosophy that are commonly regarded under a realist attitude...
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  • Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs
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    Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs

    This book provides a comprehensive, contextualized approach to curriculum creation, design, development, and evaluation for Intensive English Programs. The book starts by guiding the reader through the important but often overlooked steps of...
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  • Literacy Autobiographies from the Global South
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    Literacy Autobiographies from the Global South

    Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into literacy, voice, translingualism, and critical pedagogy from a Global South perspective. The book presents...
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  • Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition
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    Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition

    This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena. Polvinen presents reflective attention on...
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    Perspectives on Knowledge Communication

    This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes...
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    English Vocabulary

    English Vocabulary: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English vocabulary, the way linguists classify and explain it, and the place of vocabulary in our overall picture of the language, and in society. Introducing a range of...
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    Postdigital Disconnects

    This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects that arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for...
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    The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese

    The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners' L2 Chinese. This book will...
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