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Cognitive Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)
by John R Taylor  Publisher Comments Cognitive Grammar offers a radical alternative to mainstream linguistic theories. This book introduces the theory in clear, non-technical language, relates it to current debates about the nature of linguistic knowledge, and applies it to in-depth...
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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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Understanding Pragmatics (UK Edition)
by Jef Verschueren Publisher Comments What do people do when using language? How exactly is meaning generated when we communicate? And why do we say one thing when we usually mean another? Examining the mental and social processes involved in communicating through language, Understanding...
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General Linguistics Introductory Sur 4TH Edition
by R H Robins Synopsis This fourth edition seeks to cover recent developments in linguistic theory while continuing to provide an introductory survey of the whole range of general linguistic studies. It is aimed at both students and the interested general reader....
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The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek (Oxford Classical Monographs)
by Andreas Willi Publisher Comments By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is...
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Classical Japanese: A Grammar
by Haruo Shirane Publisher Comments "Classical Japanese: A Grammar" is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume,...
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Les Houches 2003 Session LXXX: Methods and Models in Neurophysics
by Carson C. (edt) Chow Publisher Comments Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that strives to understand the functioning of neural systems at levels ranging from biomolecules and cells to behaviour and higher brain functions (perception, memory, cognition). Neurophysics has flourished...
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
by Daniel Heller-roazen Publisher Comments A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communties....
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Educational Linguistics #9: Dynamic Assessment: A Vygotskian Approach to Understanding and Promoting L2 Development
by Matthew E. Poehner Publisher Comments Dynamic Assessment (DA) reconceptualizes classroom interactions by arguing that teaching and assessment should not be distinct undertakings but must be integrated as a single activity that seeks to understand learner abilities by actively supporting...
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Semantic Relationism (Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy)
by Kit Fine Publisher Comments Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine's "Semantic Relationism" is a major contribution to the philosophy of language. Written by one of today's most respected philosophers Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study...
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Narrative; A Critical Linguistic Introduction
by Michael J. Toolan Publisher Comments New exercises, further reading suggestions, and an updated bibliography, enhance this second edition of the classic "Narrative." Toolan shows how systematic attention to language can reveal the works, their tellers, and their audience. New material...
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Language Policy #8: The State, the Activists and the Islanders: Language Policy on Corsica
by Robert J. Blackwood Publisher Comments This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. It focuses on the key participants - the State, the language activists and the islanders - in the...
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Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language Research (Second Language Learning)
by James P. Lantolf Publisher Comments "In many ways, this edited volume can be read as a showcase for the state of affairs in SLA research. It exemplifies what makes current SLA work so energetic and vibrant, topically and methodologically innovative, insightful in its results, and...
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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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Black Swan (90 Edition)
by Thomas Mann Publisher Comments Thomas Mann's bold and disturbing novella, written in 1952, is the feminine counterpart of his masterpiece "Death in Venice". Written from the point of view of a woman in what we might now call mid-life crisis, "The Black Swan" evinces Mann's mastery of...
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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology #8: Twentieth Century Reading Education: Understanding Practices of Today in Terms of Patterns of the Past
by Gerard Giordano Publisher Comments This book examines twentieth century reading education. Among the major educational issues, reviewed are testing, diagnosis, individualized education, textbooks, readability, multiculturalism, bi-lingualism, disability, and technology. The book explores...
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The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: An Introduction
by Meriel Bloor Publisher Comments This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse analysis (CDA). It is mainly concerned with the linguistic aspects of CDA. It provides an introduction to the different types of language analysis that are...
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Discourse & Pragmatic Constraints on Grammatical Choices: A Grammar of Surprises
by Maria Manoliu-manea Publisher Comments This book constitutes a quest for discourse and pragmatic features responsible for so-called optional grammatical choices. In an attempt to adduce new evidence for the assumption that, in order to capture adequately the reasons for the choice of various...
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Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy #77: Computing Meaning Volume 2
by H. Bunt Publisher Comments This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. Computational semantics is concerned with the computation of the meanings of linguistic objects such as text fragments, spoken...
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Language Networks: The New Word Grammar
by Richard Hudson About the Author Richard Hudson spent all his working life researching and teaching linguistics at University College London. His School of Oriental and African Studies PhD project was a grammar of the Cushitic language Beja, and his subsequent work has focussed...
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