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Language, Ideology and Point of Viewby Paul Simpson
Routledge 1993; US$ 52.95This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view is shaped by ideology. It focusses on the way in which people encode their beliefs and biases in a wide variety of media. more...
Introducing Interpreting Studiesby Pö; Franz chhacker
Routledge 2003; US$ 44.95This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. more...
Situated Language and Learningby James Paul Gee
Routledge 2004; US$ 41.95Tackles the big ideas about language, literacy and learning. Why do poor and minority students under-perform in school? Do computer games help or hinder learning? What can new research in psychology teach our educational policy makers? more...
Achieving Success in Second Language Acquisitionby Betty Lou Leaver; Madeline Ehrman; Boris Shekhtman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00This clear, informative textbook is designed to help the student achieve optimal success as a language learner and user. Aimed at beginning to intermediate undergraduates and above, it teaches students to understand their own preferences in learning, to develop individual learning plans and approaches, and to select appropriate learning strategies. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Saussureby Carol Sanders
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern Linguistics and Structuralism. This Companion brings together a team of leading scholars to offer a fresh account of Saussure's work, and his influence on a range of other disciplines such as cultural studies, philosophy, literature and semiotics. more...
Designing Authenticity into Language Learning Materialsby Frieda Mishan
Intellect 2004; US$ 10.00This book puts forward an authenticity-centred approach to the design of materials for language learning. The premise of the approach is that language learning should be based on authentic materials drawn from a variety of genres found in the target language culture, and that the learning tasks involving these materials should be correspondingly authentic, by entailing interactions that are consistent with the original communicative purpose of the authentic text. It provides both a theoretical grounding to the authenticity-centred approach, and demonstrates its practical application in a teaching task reference section. In outline, the book: ? Refines a definition of authenticity in the context of language pedagogy. ? Traces the historical... more...
Cartesian Linguisticsby Noam Chomsky
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 22.00This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. more...
Code-switchingby Penelope Gardner-Chloros
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 34.00An interdisciplinary overview of code-switching, whereby bilingual speakers switch between different languages or language varieties. more...
Multimodalityby Gunther Kress
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 44.95Multimodality is a sub-field of communication studies which looks beyond language to the multiple modes of communicating or making meaning - from images to sound and music. This book offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of this topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading. more...
Media Research Methodsby Barrie Gunter
Sage Publications Ltd. 1999; US$ 61.00In this book, Barrie Gunter provides a broad overview of the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempt to derive a better understanding of the nature, role and impact of media in society. By tracing the epistemological and theoretical roots of the major methodological perspectives, Gunter identifies the various schools of social scientific research that have determined the major perspectives in the area. Drawing a distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods, he discusses the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and examines recent trends that signal a convergence of approaches and their associated forms of research. The unique strength of this book is that it discusses the theoretical... more...









