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An Laffut.
Angela Downing.
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Bettina Fischer-Starcke.
Gayle Feng-Checkett, Lawrence Checkett.
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The English language is at more than one point in its history a language which is being carried from one part of the world to another. This is true at the beginning of its existence as a recognizably distinct language—the phase which this and later chapters refer to as Old English. Migration of people and the consequent relocation of the languages they speak will therefore be one of the …
The Companion to English Language Studies is designed as a resource for those studying English language at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It will also be of interest to those teaching English, and others who wish to check, consolidate or update their knowledge of an area of English Language Studies. The book focuses mainly on contemporary English Language Studies (for more detailed a…
How to Say It® is a practical, easy-to-use book that tells you what to say and how to say it. Its flexible approach helps you fashion compelling letters in little more time than it takes to handwrite or type them. How to Say It® features comprehensive, versatile lists of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that allow you to express yourself on any subject in your own voice and style.
The goal of Language, Space and Power is to richly describe the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisition process. Much attention has been given to the quantitative research supporting the acad…
The only reasonable response to the philosophical literature on metaphor is one of despair. This is not because what one finds there is bad; far from it. Though I don't think that anyone is quite right about metaphor, very few writers are simply wrong. Nor is the despair grounded on the sheer volume of the literature and its almost exponential increase in recent years. To be sure, if you tho…
Pragmatics is by its nature a cross-disciplinary subject, with its roots in philosophy and linguistics, but reaching out into cognitive science, psychology, sociology and even the study of non-human animal communication. I have done my best to make the book self-contained and self-explanatory, and to present the arguments in a non-technical way. I therefore hope that it will be of interes…