Linguistics category: 5616 books
The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse
A Special Issue of Discourse Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Over the last several decades, the study of discourse processes has moved from the complementary efforts characteristic of multidisciplinary research, to the explicitly integrative focus of interdisciplinary research. Some organizations have supported the methodological and conceptual merger of areas...
by Carmen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world. Drawing on a range of digital media – from email to chatrooms and social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube – Lee demonstrates how online multilingualism...
The History of English
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day. The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context, an overview of the relevant major...
The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore...
Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge
Extending the Principles and Parameters Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by investigating the parameters of syntactic variation and simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages. Taking the behavior of the Null Subject Parameter (NSP) across languages as an illustration,...
by Dr. David Gramling
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Book Award awarded by the American Association for Applied Linguistics
The Invention of Monolingualism harnesses literary studies, applied linguisitics, translation studies, and cultural studies to offer a groundbreaking investigation of monolingualism. After briefly describing...
Language and Crime
Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks....
Reading in a Second Language
Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading...
by Miriam Meyerhoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff’s highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar...
Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Discipline-based English Studies
Enhancing Language Attainment and Classroom Interaction in a Multicultural Learning Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book presents empirical findings that reveal various teaching strategies and responses from two sub-cultural groups of students, i.e. local Hong Kong and Mainland students, with regard to their English studies. It puts forward a constructive model for innovative teaching strategies to enhance...
Native Speakers and Native Users
Loss and Gain
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
'Native speakers' and 'native users' are terms traditionally used to differentiate between speakers who have acquired a language from birth and speakers who have learnt a second language. This book highlights the problems associated with making such a clear cut distinction. By analysing a range of...
Translation in a Postcolonial Context
Early Irish Literature in English Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging from colonialism. At the same time, these Irish case studies become the means of interrogating contemporary...
Variety in Written English
Texts in Society/Societies in Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:-
* looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and...
Dramatic Discourse
Dialogue as Interaction in Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
Whilst poetry and fiction have been subjected to extensive linguistic analysis, drama has long remained a neglected field for detailed study. Vimala Herman argues that drama should be of particular interest to linguists because of its form, dialogue and subsequent translation into performance. The...