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by Rebecca S. Wheeler  Publisher Comments Defusing chicken-little prognostications about English, this volume suggests that dark claims about language are not to be taken at face value. Instead, these claims function as a signal: time to step back. Offering just such a time-out, eminent... (read more)  List Price $56.95 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Bernard Spolsky Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which various groups of people use language. This book provides a brief yet comprehensive... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mace Publisher Comments The Arabic used in the book is from modern life; nothing solely historic or academic is included. The book includes an Arabic index, grammatical index and glossary of grammatical terms. Transliteration is used where useful and indexes supplement detailed... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T Acton Publisher Comments This book results from a collaboration between activists and academics. The editors believe that if grammar is to become politically important, then educated people must receive some grounding in a scientifically based descriptive linguistics before they... (read more) Your price $42.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Spencer Publisher Comments Aimed principally at the undergraduate student, this exciting new textbook provides a compact presentation of the fundamental concepts of phonology.... (read more) List Price $51.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jaroslav Peregrin Publisher Comments In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings as crucially... (read more) Your price $112.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence D. Shriberg Publisher Comments "For more than 20 years," Clinical Phonetics" has been the leading resource for those interested in acquiring both the academic content and the transcription skills required for responsible clinical decision-making." "Clinical Phonetics," Third Edition... (read more) List Price $123.95 Your price $81.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Copestake Publisher Comments This exemplary volume shows how the shared interests of three different research areas can lead to significant and fruitful exchanges: six papers each very accessibly present an exciting contribution to the study and uses of algebras, diagrams, and... (read more) Your price $30.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Iggy Roca Publisher Comments As an accompanying volume to "A Course in Phonology" or as a separate text, this book provides the user with a wealth of exercises in phonology covering a range of topics, including optimality theory, in a concise and accessible form.... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Owens Publisher Comments Clearly written, well organized, and comprehensive, Language Development is the most widely referenced book in its field. Language development, literacy development, linguistics, language processing Professionals and students of the development of... (read more) List Price $94.70 Your price $64.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Trevor A. Harley Publisher Comments This is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student needs to know on the topic, presenting often difficult material in a lively and accessible way. There is coverage of all the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Andrews Publisher Comments Language Exploration and Awareness: A Resource Book for Teachers, Third Edition shows English teachers how they can expand their curriculum beyond the traditional emphases on grammar and syntax, to help their students learn about many aspects of the... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price $36.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michel Blanc Publisher Comments Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicola Woods Publisher Comments For anyone approaching discourse analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use. Describing Discourse takes the unique approach of introducing discourse studies through the... (read more) Your price $25.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Fasold Publisher Comments This accessible new textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Scollon Publisher Comments This newly revised volume is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and problems of intercultural communication. Viewed from within the framework of interactive sociolinguistics associated with Tannen, Gumperz, and others... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $39.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Dunlea Publisher Comments This work clearly demonstrates the crucial contribution it makes to child language research.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $79.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Dancygier Publisher Comments This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $71.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ayesha Kidwai Publisher Comments One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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