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Through the Language Glass
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 17.99A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how?and whether?culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian... more...
Introducing Functional Grammar
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2004; US$ 35.00This is an accessible introduction to the most fully developed functional approach to grammar currently available. Now in its second edition, it is closely based on Michael Hallidays An Introduction to Functional Grammar: Third Edition . more...
The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 37.99Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics... more...
Language Typology and Syntactic Description
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 42.00Third in a three-volume survey exploring the syntactic and morphological structures of the worlds languages. more...
Bridging the Gap
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 180.00Interpreting has been a neglected area since the late 1970s. Sylvie Lambert and Barbara Moser-Mercer have attempted to give a new impulse to academic research in print with this collection of 30 articles discussing various aspects of interpreting grouped in 3 sections: I. Pedagogical issues, II. Simultaneous interpretation, III. Neuropsychological... more...
Computational Semantics with Functional Programming
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 35.00A comprehensive introduction to computational semantics, showing students how to compute meaning using the functional programming language Haskell. more...
Attitudes to Language
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 35.00This lively introduction discusses language attitudes and their implications for our use of language. more...
John Searle
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts to his most recent studies of consciousness, freedom and rationality John Searle has been a dominant and highly influential figure amongst contemporary philosophers. This is the only systematic introduction to the full range of Searle's work. more...
Politeness
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 35.00Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this new introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of current models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are. more...









