Linguistics category: 5616 books
Text and Image
A Critical Introduction to the Visual/Verbal Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work.This introductory textbook explores and analyses the various approaches to multimodality and offers a broad, interdisciplinary survey...
Investigating Intimate Discourse
Exploring the spoken interaction of families, couples and friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships.
Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus...
Researching Language
Issues of Power and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Originally published in 1992. This book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science so that it benefits the subjects as well as the researcher. The authors distinguish between ‘ethical’, ‘advocate’ and ‘empowering’ approaches to the relationship between...
by Dr. Paul Meara, Imma Miralpeix
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book introduces an innovative collection of easy-to-use computer programs that have been developed to measure and model vocabulary knowledge. The book aims to help researchers discover new instruments for lexical analysis, and provides a theoretical framework in which studies with such tools...
Linguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus
Insider accounts of the use of English and other languages in universities within Asia, Australasia, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Linguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus presents an in-depth ethnographic case study of the language policies and practices of universities in nine countries around the world. Each chapter provides a detailed presentation of the findings from that university, considering the presence of linguistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this rapidly developing field of study.
Including 47 state-of-the art chapters from leading international scholars,...
A Critical Discourse Analysis of South Asian Women's Magazines
Undercover Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women’s lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines’ representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience. The author challenges the notion that discourses...
by Stephanie Schnurr, Olga Zayts
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts. Eight chapters cover the core aspects of culture at work, comprising:
Face and politeness
Decision making
Leadership
Identity
Gender
Work-life balance
The authors draw...
On Writtenness
The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book develops the concept of 'writtenness' (historically-formed stylistic and aesthetic values within writing) to highlight the demands, taken-for-granted ideals, institutional frictions, and changing circumstances of academic writing in English in the contemporary international university.
Recognising...
by Romy Clark, Roz Ivanic
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development.
The Politics of Writing examines writing as a social practice. The authors draw on...
by Anatole Lyovin, Brett Kessler, William Leben
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of world's languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure...
by Ali Aycan Kolukisa
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , course: Japanese Language & Literature Course, language: English, abstract: According to its characteristics, knowledge is divided into two subgroups named as Universal Knowledge and Individual Knowledge. Universal Knowledge...
Teaching and Learning Chinese in Schools
Case Studies in Quality Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book presents the principles of quality teaching in Chinese, as exemplified in case studies of primary and secondary school classrooms. Drawing on data from five Australian schools, the authors identify the key practices necessary to produce a quality learning experience for students. The book...
Arabic
A Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This lively introduction to the linguistics of Arabic provides students with a concise overview of the language's structure and its various components: its phonology, morphology and syntax. Through exercises, discussion points and assignments built into every chapter, the book presents the Arabic...