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Advanced in Stylistics #14: Pedagogical Stylistics: Current Trends in Language, Literature and ELT by Michael Burke Publisher Comments This book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation of stylistic techniques in teaching other subjects. Pedagogical stylistics is a field that looks at employing stylistic analysis in... (read more) Your price: $151.50 New - Hardcover 
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack Publisher Comments A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism #2: Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography by Marilyn (edt) Martin-jones Publisher Comments Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post... (read more) Your price: $125.00 New - Hardcover
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Kindergarten Page Per Day: Reading Skills (Kindergarten Page Per Day) by Sylvan Learning (cor) Publisher Comments Learn the Basics with Just One Page of Activities Each Day! Sylvan Learning's Kindergarten Page Per Day: Reading Skills uses engaging games and activities to help children become familiar with early reading skills, including: ... (read more) Your price: $6.99 New - Mass Market
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Kindergarten Word Games (Fun on the Run) by Inc. (cor) Sylvan Learning Publisher Comments Have fun learning new words with Sylvan's proven techniques for success! Kindergarten Word Games helps children improve their words skills through engaging games and activities. Packed with colorful pictures and short, fun exercises, this book helps... (read more) Your price: $3.99 New - Mass Market
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Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: And Their Indo-European Ancestry by D. Gary Miller Publisher Comments This is the fullest account ever published of Latin suffixes in English. It explores the rich variety of English words formed by the addition of one or more Latin suffixes, such as -ial, -able, -ability, -ible, and -id. It traces the histories of over 3... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Glenn (edt) Fulcher Publisher Comments The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing offers a critical and comprehensive overview of language testing and assessment within the fields of applied linguistics and language study. An understanding of language testing is essential for applied... (read more) Your price: $185.00 New - Hardcover
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Meaning and Relevance. by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber by Deirdre Wilson Publisher Comments When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided... (read more) Your price: $105.00 New - Hardcover
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Saussure Publisher Comments "In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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The Semantics of Colour: A Historical Approach by C. P. Biggam Publisher Comments Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets... (read more) Your price: $99.00 New - Hardcover
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Successful Neuro-Linguistic Programming in a Week a Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself: General Reference) by Shapiro Publisher Comments Learn NLP skills and practices in just seven days and advance your career Written by Mo Shapiro, a leading expert on NLP as both a coach and a practitioner, Successful Neuro-Linguistic Programming quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf Publisher Comments It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) by Bernard (edt) Spolsky Publisher Comments Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field... (read more) Your price: $190.75 New - Hardcover
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Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective by Barbara (edt) Dancygier Publisher Comments What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and in literary texts, as well as in landscape art? Is this shared vocabulary marking real connections between the disparate phenomena? This volume argues that human cognition is... (read more) Your price: $99.00 New - Hardcover
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Meaning and Relevance by Deirdre Wilson Publisher Comments When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) by Ash Asudeh Publisher Comments This is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of a syntactic dependency as a bound pronoun. Resumption occurs in unbounded dependencies, such as relative... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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Acculturated by Naomi Schaefe Riley Publisher Comments “Sizing up and taking down the things we read, watch, and play, this all-star team of analysts provides a series of delightsand surprises that will make you ponder anew the deep structures that inform our lives, even when we think we’re off... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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A New Language, a New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) by Nancy C. Carnevale Publisher Comments An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World by Arran Stibbe Publisher Comments Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out--not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals happen at a remove: mediated by nature programs... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Doing Applied Linguistics by Nicholas Groom and Jeannette Littlemore Your price: $28.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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