Black Communications and Learning to Read

Building on Children's Linguistic and Cultural Strengths

By Terry Meier

This book is about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American English, but...

Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Articulate Mammal

An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

By Jean Aitchison

An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date...

Published September 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Social Linguistics and Literacies

Ideology in Discourses

By James Paul Gee

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history,...

Published August 23rd 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Edward Sapir

Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists

Edited by E.F.K. Koerner

Edward Sapir (1884–1939) was one of the foremost linguists and anthropologists of his time. He is most widely known for his contributions to the study...

Published August 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Lexicology

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Patrick W. Hanks

This new Routledge Major Work is a six-volume collection of nearly one hundred papers, articles, and extracts covering every aspect of lexicology. It ranges over...

Published August 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb

By Maher Bahloul

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb.

Approaches to verbal...

Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Rude Britannia

Edited by Mina Gorji

Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon’s obscene outburst on 'I’m...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends

By Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez

This book approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device,...

Published July 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Bilingualism

An Advanced Resource Book

By Ng Bee Chin, Gillian Wigglesworth

Bilingualism:

• introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
• uses tasks and examples to...

Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge.

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Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech

Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

By Joanna Hart Lowenstein

This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants...

Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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