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by Bill Vanpatten  Publisher Comments This new title in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series provides an eminently accessible overview of key issues in second language acquisition research, written expressly for second language teachers. Avoiding highly technical jargon and... (read more)  List Price $66.50 Your price $42.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stephen Barbour Publisher Comments This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanna Thornborrow Publisher Comments "Patterns in Language" addresses the real needs of students who may not have an extensive background either in traditional literature or in linguistic theory. This student-friendly textbook uses the principles of linguistic analysis to investigate the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $26.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin Maccabe Publisher Comments Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp fiction, use the full resources of literary and linguistic analysis to produce a reading of European... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $60.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Iggy Roca Publisher Comments This textbook presupposes no knowledge of phonology or phonetics, and takes the learner step by step through the various stages and areas of the discipline without sacrificing rigor or breadth of coverage. The extraordinary clarity of explanation by the... (read more) List Price $68.95 Your price $52.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Johnson Publisher Comments Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to basic acoustics, audition, signal processing, and the acoustic theory of speech production.... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Lederer Publisher Comments "Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $1.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Mitchell Publisher Comments The seventh edition of this popular introduction to Old English language and literature retains the general structure and style of previous editions, but has been updated, and includes two new, much-requested texts: the Cotton Gnomes and Wulfstan's... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $32.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ferdinand De Saussure Publisher Comments The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John I Saeed Publisher Comments This second edition of Semantics provides an engaging introduction to semantics for students new to the field.... (read more) Your price $89.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard A. Hudson Publisher Comments New edition of widely-acclaimed textbook, including new sections on up-to-date topics for the 1990s.... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John A. Holm Publisher Comments A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Lakoff Publisher Comments conversion in... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Man Publisher Comments Praise for Alpha Beta <BR>"This book comes at the perfect moment -- as we rediscover the importance in early reading of 'cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Jones Publisher Comments This book provides in a lucid and authoritative manner the basic information needed by foreign students of the language on pronunciation.... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Robinson Synopsis Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Fennell Publisher Comments "A History of English" provides an intelligent and accessible synthesis of modern sociolinguistic approaches to the development of the English Language.... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lucy Tse Publisher Comments This compelling book examines the often cited but poorly supported claims that immigrants fail to learn English, and the mistaken belief that immigrant communities cling to their heritage languages. The author reveals that, on the contrary, English is... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Ingram Publisher Comments A closely analyzed exposition of how children acquire language that explores the receptive and productive abilities of children in all core areas of language--phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Readers will acquire the fundamental knowledge and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yoshiki Ogawa Publisher Comments Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $35.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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