Alphabet to Email

How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

By Naomi S. Baron

In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology...

Published April 26th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics

Edited by Paul Cobley

Edited by communications specialist Paul Cobley, this Routledge Companion it has ten introductory essays written by pace-setting figures in the field. These are followed by...

Published April 26th 2001 by Routledge.

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Mediated Discourse

The nexus of practice

By Ron Scollon

Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action.
Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is...

Published April 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination

Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative

By Susan Florio-Ruane, Julie deTar

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account...

Published April 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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The Language of Conversation

By Francesca Pridham

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis of conversation. Written in a clear, user-friendly style...

Published February 15th 2001 by Routledge.

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Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

By Phil Benson

This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally...

Published January 11th 2001 by Routledge.

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Gender Construction in Children's Interactions

A Cultural Perspective. A Special Issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction

Edited by Amy Kyratzis

This special issue examines gender construction by children in some of its rich cultural and contextual complexity and in some of its interactions with power....

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Children's Language

Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Children's Language

Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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English Language Teaching in Its Social Context

A Reader

Edited by Christopher Candlin, Neil Mercer

English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and learning and introduces the relevant literature on...

Published November 16th 2000 by Routledge.

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