Corpus-Based Language Studies

An Advanced Resource Book

By Anthony McEnery, Richard Xiao, Yukio Tono

Corpus-Based Language Studies:

• covers the major theoretical approaches to the use of corpus data
• adopts a ‘how to’ approach with exercises and cases, affording students with the...

Published December 22nd 2005 by Routledge.

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Child Language

A Resource Book for Students

By Jean Stilwell Peccei

Child Language:

• provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in children
• introduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the...

Published December 13th 2005 by Routledge.

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Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure

A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish

By Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo

This book investigates a number of word order phenomena in Spanish, concentrating on this language's unmarked word order and the perturbations of this order that...

Published December 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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Tabloid Britain

Constructing a Community through Language

By Martin Conboy

<From Tony Blair and his cabinet to celebrity chefs and footballers, the British tabloids provide sensational coverage of the private and public lives of political...

Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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Exploring Language Change

By Mari Jones, Ishtla Singh

In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and...

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge.

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Introducing Metaphor

By Murray Knowles, Rosamund Moon

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and...

Published November 7th 2005 by Routledge.

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Discourse Adjectives

By Gina Taranto

Published November 3rd 2005 by Routledge.

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Swearing in English

Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

By Tony McEnery

Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language...

Published October 14th 2005 by Routledge.

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Language and Linguistics in Context

Readings and Applications for Teachers

Edited by Harriet Luria, Deborah M. Seymour, Trudy Smoke

Taking a sociocultural and educational approach, Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers:

*introduces basic linguistic concepts and current perspectives on language acquisition;

*considers...

Published September 16th 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Introducing Performative Pragmatics

By Douglas Robinson

This user-friendly introduction to a new ‘performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on...

Published September 8th 2005 by Routledge.

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