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'Greatly enjoyable' GUARDIAN'It is always exhilarating to read a book which says what so many of us think' SPECTATOR'Timely and lively' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Let us be very clear about this from the start: John Humphrys is a Good Thing' EVENING STANDARD* * * * * *From Today...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Written in a lively style, Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind applies a scientific approach to the study of various aspects of speech, using everyday examples to introduce the beginning student to the world of language and cognition. An accessible introduction to the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-26
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Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a unique focus on real-world applications of CA by examining four institutional domains: calls to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
Collection :
Language in Society
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Quantitative Methods in Linguistics offers a practical introduction to statistics and quantitative analysis with data sets drawn from the field and coverage of phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax, as well as probability...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that arise in connection with...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-23
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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-22
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This is the second of the two closely linked but self-contained volumes that comprise James Hurford's acclaimed exploration of the biological evolution of language. In the first book he looked at the evolutionary origins of meaning, ending as our distant ancestors were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-22
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Bho chionn deich bliadhna fichead, bha cnan agus cultar na Gidhlig, a bha air a bhith iomraiteach ann an Alba airson 1,300 bliadhna, a rir coltais ann an ceumannan deireannach cronadh bsmhor a mhair 200 bliadhna. Bha an ireamh de dhaoine a bhruidhinneadh Gidhlig ann an...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-09-16
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In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
Collection :
The Language Library
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Political Correctness “Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-13
Collection :
The Language Library
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Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
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Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
Collection :
Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
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Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-09
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This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
Collection :
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language—its lexicon is rich in morphemes. This volume supplies the first in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of the interaction between morphological knowledge and spelling in Hebrew. It also examines how far this model can be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-31
Collection :
Literacy Studies
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The book contains a selection of papers reflecting cutting-edge developments in the field of learning and teaching second and foreign languages.The contributions are devoted to such issues as classroom-oriented research, sociocultural aspects of language acquisition,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-30
Collection :
Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-27
Collection :
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
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In recent years language learning has been increasingly viewed by some SLA researchers as an essentially social-psychological process in which the role of a wider sociocultural context should not be marginalized. This volume offers a valuable contribution to this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-08-27
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Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language. Represents...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-08-26
Collection :
Language in Society
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-08-26
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