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,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42776-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25507-3 (Routledge)

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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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70098-6 (Routledge)

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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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77215-0 (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...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38277-9 (Routledge)

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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,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95720-5 (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...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34387-9 (Routledge)

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The Basics of Essay Writing

By Nigel Warburton

Nigel Warburton, bestselling author and experienced lecturer, provides all the guidance and advice you need to dramatically improve your essay-writing skills. The book opens with a...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43404-1 (Routledge)

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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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97604-6 (Routledge)

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Talking Texts

How Speech and Writing Interact in School Learning

Edited by Rosalind Horowitz

This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5305-6 (Routledge)

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