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IB English B
Oxford University Press 2012; US$ 43.20With lots of compelling and contemporary extracts which appeal to students, this course book draws students into the subject and motivates them to achieve their best. Activities and practice tests help students improve their linguistic proficiency and meet all assessment objectives and Group 2 aims. more...
New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the... more...
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 220.00The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of intercultural communication, drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from diverse backgrounds. The Handbook is structured in five sections and covers historical perspectives, core issues and topics, and... more...
The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 39.99Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis , this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. This companion offers a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary discourse studies. In 21 chapters written by leading figures in the field, the... more...
Categories in Text and Talk
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 24.50This is the first practical book on how to apply Harvey Sacks' membership categorization analysis technique, an increasingly influential method for conversation analysis. Categorization analysis is a method for the study of situated social action and offers a complementary method to the traditional sequential analysis used in the study of naturally... more...
Text and Discourse Analysis
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 34.95A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis: * examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks * contains numerous practical activities * looks at a range of cohesive devices... more...
Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 38.00Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new discipline which is rapidly becoming mainstream and influential, particularly in the area of second language teaching. This book looks at how cognitive linguistics can inform our teaching, and lead to intriguing suggestions for alternative ways of presenting grammar and vocabulary in the language classroom. more...
A Workbook for Arguments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 21.95This book builds on Anthony Weston's "Rulebook for Arguments" to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic. The workbook contains the entire text of the fourth edition of the "Rulebook", while supplementing this core text with extensive further explanations and exercises: homework exercises adapted from a wide range... more...
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 72.00Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method offers the first systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. more...
Rewriting
Utah State University Press 2007; US$ 19.00"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other writers, what intellectuals have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with." What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from... more...









