STYLISTICS oxford university
This book examines style in literary and non-literary texts. The topics explored include style as a matter of socialization, the production and reception of meaming, the question of perspective, litar...
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DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE USE telos editora
Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroo...
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INGLES NA SALA DE AULA - ACAO E REFLEXAO - VOL. 1 richmond didatico br (moderna)
Inglês Na Sala De Aula - Ação E Reflexão - Col. Richmond Reflections
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CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIC ENGLISH C1 SB ADVANCED cambridge university
A three-level (B1+ to C1) integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. The C1 Advanced Student´s Book consolidates academic study skills. Students´ an...
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WHY DO YOU ASK? oxford (usa)
The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the fi...
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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS cambridge audio visual & book teacher
Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive ling...
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LANGUAGES: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION oxford (usa)
How many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questi...
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MERCHANT OF VENICE WITH MP3 PACK, THE - 3RD ED oxford university
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LANGUAGE, THE SEXES AND SOCIETY blackwell (wiley)
In studying the various roles that language, speech and communication play in relations between the sexes, Language, The Sexes and Society identifies and illuminates the processes involved- such as st...
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OBSERVING AND ANALYSING NATURAL LANGUAGE blackwell (wiley)
Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the ...
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SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF LANGUAGE - VOL. 2 blackwell (wiley)
A companion to the author´s Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplac...
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INVITATION TO LINGUISTICS blackwell (wiley)
The study of language has come a long way since Samuel Johnson describe himself as ´maker of dictionaries -- harmless drudge´. The emphasis in modern linguistics is on descriptive investigations of th...
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SEEING THROUGH LANGUAGE: A GUIDE TO STYLES OF ENGLISH WRITING blackwell (wiley)
Riddle: Why is a telescope like a bad excuse? Answer: Because anyone can see through it. The authors of this book would like to help anyone - but particularly students of English - to "see through" l...
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TEACHING ORAL COMMUNICATION A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK blackwell (wiley)
The aim of this book is to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of teaching language for communication. It is written principally for teachers who wish to adopt a communicative approach and ...
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SEMANTIC SYNTAX blackwell (wiley)
This book presents and exemplifies the theory of grammar called Semantic Syntax. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected with semantic analyses, is a direct continuation of Gene...
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MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY blackwell (wiley)
This is the first near-exhaustive introduction to the burgeoning field of morphology in generative grammar. Presupposing very little prior knowledge of linguistics, the book guides the reader from abs...
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SYNTACTIC THEORY AND THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH SYNTAX THE NATURE OF EARLY CHILD GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH blackwell (wiley)
Between the ages of one-and-a-half and two years children start to form elementary phrases and clauses. This stage of their linguistic development provides the first clear evidence that they have begu...
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LANGUAGE OF NEWS MEDIA, THE blackwell (wiley)
Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the language of the news media. Based in the frameworks of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis its concern...
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TWITTER MACHINE REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE, THE blackwell (wiley)
This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of ...
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LEARNING ABOUT WRITING blackwell (wiley)
Drawing on insights and evidence from the National Writing Project, this book explores the ways in which we can best support the development of children´s writing in the early years. But before lookin...
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PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE, PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE VOLUME I blackwell (wiley)
This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. Demonstrates the social as well as cognitive rel...
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PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE, PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE VOLUME II blackwell (wiley)
This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolingui...
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PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE, PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE VOLUME II blackwell (wiley)
This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolingui...
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WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD blackwell (wiley)
This book is an account of the writing systems of the world from earliest times to the present. Its aim is to explore the complex ways in which writing systems relate to the language they depict. Writ...
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MODERN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR blackwell (wiley)
This book provides an introduction to Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), theories which have formed one of the main currents in syntactic theo...
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LINGUISTIC VARIATION AS SOCIAL PRACTICE blackwell (wiley)
This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.
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LINGUISTIC VARIATION AS SOCIAL PRACTICE blackwell (wiley)
This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.
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INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE: CENTRAL PROBLEMS IN LINGUISTICS blackwell (wiley)
This book is intended for anyone with a serious interest in language, but particularly for students taking introductory courses in language and linguistics. It is not a catalogue of facts and theories...
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LOGICAL FORM blackwell (wiley)
This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations. In the late 1970s ge...
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MIND OF A SAVANT, THE blackwell (wiley)
Savants are people who are mentally and often physically impaired but who have one dazzling talent. Cases of savants, like Christopher who is described here, are not unheard of, but have never been re...
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INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT AND BINDING THEORY - 2ND ED blackwell (wiley)
Since its first publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman´s Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters appr...
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NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS blackwell (wiley)
Natural Language Semantics discusses fundamental concepts for linguistic semantics. This book combines theoretical explanations of several methods of inquiry with detailed semantic analysis and emphas...
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