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The Semitic Languages
by Robert (edt) Hetzron  Publisher Comments The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day. The volume includes: an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems; individual descriptions...
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Language Alive in the Classroom (99 Edition)
by Rebecca S. Wheeler Publisher Comments A common lament of teachers in the English-speaking world is that students at all levels often show very little knowledge of grammar. As traditionally taught (if taught at all), grammar is a dry, prescriptive subject and one that students often dislike...
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Language, Power and Identity Politics (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities)
by Mairead Nic (edt) Craith Publisher Comments Dominance, identity and resistance are key themes in this volume in which contributors examine language in global, virtual and local settings. Power is highly contextual and the chapters focus on concepts such as world languages, linguistic rights and...
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Ug and External Systems; Language, Brain, and Computation.
by Anna Maria Di Sciullo Book News Annotation Drawing examples from different languages, from experiences of learning first and second languages, and from observation of speech and mental disorders, scholars discuss Universal Grammar (UG) and the external systems, conceptual-intentional and...
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Clause Structure in South Asian Languages
by V. Dayal Publisher Comments The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages. Clause...
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Language, Mind, and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar
by Ewa Dabrowska Publisher Comments "Language, Mind and Brain" is a delightfully readable, yet erudite exploration of how the human mind processes and orders sounds and words into meaning. It explores how properties of the human mind/brain constrain linguistic structure and how linguistics...
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Restrictiveness in Case Theory: (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
by Henry Smith Publisher Comments Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case, examining its synchronic and diachronic consequences....
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From Grammar To Politics (94 Edition)
by Alessandro Duranti Publisher Comments Alessandro Duranti explores the way traditional oratory in a Samoan village is shaped by the needs of the political process and shows how language insulates ceremonial speakers from the perils of everyday confrontation. He proposes a "moral flow...
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Applied Linguistics in Language Education
by Steven Mcdonough Publisher Comments This book covers those areas of applied language study that are most directly relevant to language teaching, testing, and teacher education. It focuses on the fundamental questions raised for research by the practice of language teaching and research...
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The Changing Languages of Europe
by Tania Kuteva Publisher Comments This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such...
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Stylistic Criticism of Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context
by Peter Verdonk Publisher Comments This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience, makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts. This title available in eBook format....
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De Lingua Belief (Bradford Books)
by Robert Fiengo Publisher Comments Speakers, in their everyday conversations, use language to talk about language. They may wonder about what words mean, to whom a name refers, whether a sentence is true. They may worry whether they have been clear, or correctly expressed what they meant...
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Topics in Language and Linguistics #8: Second Language Teaching
by Marcel Danesi Publisher Comments Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain: -offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages; -provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to...
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Historical Linguistics: A Theoretical Introduction (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Mark Hale Publisher Comments This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental concepts in historical linguistics....
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English (96 Edition)
by David Graddol Publisher Comments 'The book's colourful, varied contents will no doubt attract students of Linguistics, Literature and everyone interested in the English language. The authors have done an excellent job in providing this well researched material and keeping the jargon to...
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An Introduction to Linguistics
by Stuart C. Poole Publisher Comments By covering all major aspects of linguistics--semantics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and social variation--this book gives a thorough grounding in the fundamental concepts of language and a practical analysis of its use....
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Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research (PB)
by Nora Shuart-faris Book News Annotation Most of the 12 articles are from a 1992 double issue of Linguistics and Education devoted to intertextuality--the notion that texts influence each other. Two are from other sources, and five are new. Together they look at classroom, community...
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Researching and Applying Metaphor
by Lynne Cameron Publisher Comments Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognized as central to language and language use. The implications of these findings are only just...
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Language and the Learning Curve: A New Theory of Syntactic Development
by Anat Ninio Publisher Comments Language development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions to the debate from researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, though there have...
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Children's Language: Consensus and Controversy
by Ray Cattell Publisher Comments This revised and bestselling textbook explores the arguments that key thinkers pose against the common perception that children come to speak their first language through their primary socialisation via parenting. This text gives readers the background...
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