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Discourse and Power
by Teun Van Dijk  Publisher Comments Teun Van Dijk is one of the most influential and significant scholars Critical Discourse analysis. This collection brings together his most important writing, with a substantial introduction, positioning the essays for the undergraduate market within the...
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Spanglish _ (Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. With deep roots that trace back to the U.S. annexation of Mexican...
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Emotion Talk Across Corpora
by Monika Bednarek Publisher Comments This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical evidence and corpus-linguistic methods, but also qualitative text analyses, the author examines how expressions that describe emotions...
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An Introduction to Language and Society
by Montgomery Publisher Comments In this new edition of a classic textbook, Martin Montgomery explores some of the ways in which the life of language intermingles with the life of society. He explores the ways in which children learn language in interaction with those around them...
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Linguistics for Beginners (For Beginners)
by Terrence W. Gordon Publisher Comments Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics...
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Essay #55: Obsessed with Language: A Sociolinguistic History of Quebec
by Chantal Bouchard Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the French-Canadian dialect, this insightful analysis examines the intimate relationship between Quebec and its heartily defended dialect, from 19th-century Parisian French to the joual of the 1960s....
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Let's Talk Turkey: The Stories Behind America's Favorite Expressions
by Rosemarie Ostler Synopsis Respected linguist Ostler demystifies more than 150 colorful homegrown figures of speech. She traces each saying from its first known appearance in print to its place in modern English, uncovering a host of cultural and historical tidbits along the way....
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
by Mark Abley Publisher Comments The wild, wacky, and sometimes baffling road the English language takes in its astonishing evolution. Did you know that the newly minted term in Japanese for visiting Tokyo's Disneyland translates as flogging the mouse? Were you aware that words now move...
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Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle
by Siobhan Chapman Publisher Comments This book compares attitudes to empiricism in language study from mid-twentieth century philosophy of language and from present-day linguistics. It focuses on responses to the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle, particularly in the work of British...
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Analysing Multimodal Documents
by John Bateman Publisher Comments Analysing Multimodal Documents presents the first systematic, corpus-based, and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal documents. John Bateman introduces researchers and advanced students to a linguistically-based...
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Introducing Arguments Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
by Liina Pylkk'anen Publisher Comments This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not andquot;coreandquot; arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are...
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If You Were a Suffix
by Marcie Aboff Synopsis Reading and Content Advisers/Activity/Glossary At the Library/Index/Book List/Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com Standards for the English Language Arts Standards 3 and 6 Quizzes at www.picturewindowbooks.com...
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Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory: Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud Essays in Honor of Jean-Roge (Current Studies in Linguistics)
by Robert Freidin Publisher Comments Jean-Roger Vergnaud's work on the foundational issues in linguistics has proved influential over the past three decades. At MIT in 1974, Vergnaud (now holder of the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in Humanities at the University of Southern California...
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Word Wise and Content Rich, Grades 7-12: Five Essential Steps to Teaching Academic Vocabulary
by Nancy Frey Publisher Comments Middle and secondary school teachers, staff developers, and curriculum coordinators - sit up and take notice Here is a book you have long-awaited and definitely need to own. - Karen BromleyBinghamton University, SUNY How do you teach students the words...
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Discourse and Context: A Socio-Cognitive Approach. by Teun A. Van Dijk
by Teun A. Van Dijk Publisher Comments How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse. Unlike in earlier approaches...
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If You Were a Contraction
by Trisha Speed Shaskan Synopsis Reading and Content Advisers/Activity/Glossary At the Library/Index/Book List/Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com Standards for the English Language Arts Standards 3 and 6 Quizzes at www.picturewindowbooks.com...
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Diachronic Change in the English Passive
by Junichi Toyota Publisher Comments In this volume on the historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural...
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases: More Than 4,500 Terms and Expressions from Around the World
by Martin H. Manser Synopsis The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases, Second Edition presents new and updated information on the origins and usage of more than 4,500 foreign expressions. This invaluable dictionary clarifies and explains worlds and phrases spanning...
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If You Were a Prefix
by Marcie Aboff Synopsis Reading and Content Advisers/Activity/Glossary At the Library/Index/Book List/Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com Standards for the English Language Arts Standards 3 and 6 Quizzes at www.picturewindowbooks.com...
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If You Were a Compound Word
by Trisha Speed Shaskan Synopsis Reading and Content Advisers/Activity/Glossary At the Library/Index/Book List/Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com Standards for the English Language Arts Standards 3 and 6 Quizzes at www.picturewindowbooks.com...
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