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  • Empirical Linguisticsby Geoffrey Sampson

    Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 140.00

    Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language... more...

  • Applied Linguistics & Communities of Practiceby Srikant Sarangi

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 130.00

    The papers in this volume demonstrate the strides applied linguists have taken, in 'pure' or 'impure' form, since the classic volume of Corder's Introducing Applied Linguistics speculated about the discipline's possible frontiers. With a judicious combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented studies, the volume... more...

  • Relations and Functions within and around Languageby David Lockwood; William Spruiell; Peter Fries

    Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 170.00

    Currently there is a movement in linguistics towards careful use of corpora in linguistic and text analysis, which has involved both written and spoken corpora and those which combine spoken and written text. Most text analyses address written texts - often literary works - but detailed discussion of the language of a single oral text from multiple... more...

  • Applied Linguistics as Social Scienceby Alison Sealey; Bob Carter

    Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 140.00

    Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of thes more...

  • Development of Languageby Geoff Williams; Annabelle Lukin

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 150.00

     . This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution.   It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of language - from the perspective of language evolution in the species as well as language development... more...

  • Unity and Diversity in Language Useby Kristyan Miller; Paul Thompson

    Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00

    The papers in this collection, drawn from the 34th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, reflect a number of different perspectives within the field of applied linguistics at the start of the twenty-first century. While addressing the theme of unity and diversity, each paper prompts critical reflection on tensions within... more...

  • Hard-Science Linguisticsby Victor Yngve; Zdzislaw Wasik

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00

    The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the... more...

  • On Language and Linguistics, 3by M.A.K. Halliday; Jonathan J. Webster

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 170.00

    The third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen papers exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. The papers are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic.... more...

  • Kontaktlinguistik, Part 2by Hans Goebl; Peter H. Nelde; Zdenek Stary; Wolfgang Wolck

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 795.00

    This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action... more...

  • Introducing Applied Linguisticsby Susan Hunston; David Oakey

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 37.95

    Introducing Applied Linguistics provides in-depth coverage of key areas in the subject, as well as introducing the essential study skills needed for academic success in the field. Introducing Applied Linguistics: ? is organised into two Sections: the first introducing Key Concepts in Applied Linguistics; and the second devoted to the... more...