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Pragmatics by George Yule Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book outlines pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. Basic concepts such as the cooperative principle, deixis... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The French Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues (Routledge Language in Society) by Rodney Ball Publisher Comments "The French-Speaking World" explores a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in societies around the world. Opening with a look at the diversity of the French-speaking world, Rodney Ball examines the... (read more) Your price $29.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On Grammar by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution by Philip Lieberman Publisher Comments Eve Spoke presents a compelling case for the pivotal role that speech has played in human language and human evolution. Wrestling with the age-old question of why such a large gulf exists between humans and other animals, Philip Lieberman mines both the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pragmatics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Stephen C Levinson Publisher Comments This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure.... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list English in Language Shift: The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English by Rajend Mesthrie Publisher Comments Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa.... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $30.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writing and Reflections From Joshua A. Fishman by Martin Putz Book News Annotation Fishman's work in sociolinguistics includes classical studies on reversing language shift as well as the title topics, and this collection of recent writings includes an interview on his perceptions with editors Hornberger (education, U. of... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $37.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century (Landmarks in Linguistic Thought) by John Earl Joseph Publisher Comments " Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II" introduces key thinkers of twentieth-century linguistics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a different thinker or theorist-Austin, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell... (read more) Your price $30.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Semantic Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Ruth M Kempson Publisher Comments 'An introduction to the central topics of linguistic semantics and the philosophy of language, assuming no special knowledge of philosophy or logic.'... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Roman Jakobson: Life, Art and Literature (Critics of the Twentieth Century) by Richard Bradford Publisher Comments Richard Bradford reasserts the value of Jakobson's work, arguing that he has a great deal to offer to contemporary critical theory and providing a critical appraisal of the sweep of Jakobson's career.... (read more) Your price $39.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Linguistics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Language, Culture & Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Stories of English by David Crystal Publisher Comments The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anshen Transdisciplinary Lectureships in Art, Science, and t #3: Language and Thought by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments A fascinating analysis of human language and its influence on other disciplines by one of the nation's most respected linguists. Chomsky is also the author of What Uncle Sam Really Wants and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (15,000 copies sold).... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of the Spanish Language by Ralph Penny Publisher Comments This textbook provides a clear and elegant account of the development of Spanish over the last 2000 years.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient by Heidi Eher Hamilton Publisher Comments Interactional sociolinguistic study of progressive communicative breakdown of an Alzheimer’s patient.... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment by Alwin Fill Synopsis Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $42.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Psycholinguistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study) by Thomas Scovel Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book examines how style is used inliterary and nonliterary texts. The topics include style as a matter of socialization, the production and reception... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The moral parameters of good talk :a feminist analysis by Maryann Neely Ayim Book News Annotation The author contends that since language is capable of creating harm or good, it should not be exempt from the moral standards we apply to other behaviors--we should strive to talk in morally appropriate ways. Her proposed moral criteria for language... (read more) Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cross Linguistic Similarity in Foreign L by Hakan Ringbom Book News Annotation While much research on second language acquisition has focused mainly on differences between languages, learners themselves are generally concerned with what similarities they can establish between the target language and their first language. Ringbom... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list English in Language Shift: The History, Structure & Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English by Rajend Mesthrie Publisher Comments Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $10.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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