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Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach (Oxford Studies in Lexicography & Lexicology)
by Rosamund Moon  Publisher Comments This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed...
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Meaning-based Translation
by Mildred L. Larson Publisher Comments Meaning-Based Translation is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbook Meaning-Based Translation....
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Cowboy Lingo
by Ramon F Adams Publisher Comments The cowboy & mdash; that enigmatic, larger-than-life icon of our culture & mdash; has long been considered a figure of fast hands, steel nerves, and few words. But according to Ramon Adams, cowboys, once among themselves, enjoyed a vivid, often...
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Choctaw Language and Culture, Volume 2: Chahta Anumpa
by Marcia Haag Publisher Comments Stories of Choctaw lives convey lessons in...
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Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language, Crime, and the Law
by John Olsson Synopsis Contains detailed studies of all the major areas of forensic linguistics, including the detection of plagiarism, the observation of style change, and an analysis of all the most important types of forensic texts....
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Theories of Human Communication (9TH 08 Edition)
by Stephen W. Littlejohn Publisher Comments THEORIES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION is considered the seminal text in the field. Littlejohn and Foss present the range of communication theories currently available in the discipline, organizing them according to the scholarly traditions and contexts from...
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Little Green Book of Getting Your Way (07 Edition)
by Gitomer Synopsis Following in the bestselling footsteps of Little Red Book of Selling, Little Red Book of Sales Answers, Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, Jeffrey Gitomer's The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way digs deep...
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Subjects, Expletives, and the Epp (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Peter Svenonius Publisher Comments This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (works like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause...
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language (2ND 03 Edition)
by David Crystal Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes....
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #99: Relevance and Linguistic Meaning
by Diane Blakemore Publisher Comments The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Diane Blakemore asserts that the exercise...
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Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography, Second Edition (Advances in Sociolinguistics)
by Monica Heller Synopsis Deals with linguistic minorities and social change, seen through the lens of a linguistic minority school, meeting the challenges of globalization. Through an examination of the language practices in the daily life of a minority language school, this...
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Investigating Workplace Discourse (Domains of Discourse)
by Almut Koester Publisher Comments Exploring the characteristics of different types of workplace conversations, including decision-making, training, briefing or making arrangements, this enthralling account pays particular attention to interactions with a more social focus, such as small...
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Getting Grammar: 150 New Ways to Teach an Old Subject
by Donna Hooker Topping Publisher Comments Getting Grammar is a new take on an old-fashion subject--a useful guide with more than 150 fresh ideas for addressing parts of speech and sentence structure--from teaching it, to learning it to adapting it for students whose home language isn't English...
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Corpora in Applied Linguistics (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
by Susan Hunston Publisher Comments Corpus linguistics is leading to the development of theories about language which challenge existing orthodoxies in applied linguistics. However, there are also many questions which should be examined and debated: how big should a corpus be? Is the data...
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English - One Tongue, Many Voices
by Jan Svartvik Publisher Comments This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure beginnings over 1500 years ago and follows up by showing the geographical spread of the language...
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Intensives and Down-Toners; A Study in English Adverbs
by Cornelis Stoffel Publisher Comments Intensives And Down-Toners; A Study In English Adverbs - 1901 - Contents . Pnge Part I . On intensive Adverbs . 1 . Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 IT . Full pure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 III . Very right . ....
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Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis
by Michael Hoey Synopsis "Textual Interaction" offers an analysis of a wide variety of narrative texts--fairytales, novels, poems, short stories, and jokes--and non-narrative texts, such as posters and timetables. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques...
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Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Michael Garman Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing and suitable for any reader with an interest in the psychological foundations of human language....
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Agreement (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Greville G. Corbett Publisher Comments An introduction to agreement - the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number....
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The Art of Translating Poetry
by Burton Raffel Publisher Comments This book by a well-known translator and critic is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the linguistic and other more technical aspects of translating poetry, the second involved with more practice-oriented matters. The chapters in Part One...
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