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  • Through the Language Glassby Guy Deutscher

    Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 17.99

    A 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...

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguisticsby Silvia Luraghi; Vit Bubenik

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 37.99

    Originally 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...

  • Politenessby Richard J. Watts

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 35.00

    Using 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...

  • Linguistic Universalsby Ricardo Mairal; Juana Gil

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 35.00

    The attempt to discover 'linguistic universals' - the properties that all languages have in common - is a fundamental goal of linguistics. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to show how different linguistic theories have approached this important challenge. Invaluable to anyone seeking a greater understanding of human language. more...

  • Formulaic Language and the Lexiconby Alison Wray

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 60.00

    Explores the nature of formulaic language. more...

  • The Study of Languageby George Yule

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00

    Easy to follow, simple to understand - the most fundamental introduction to language study. Includes new tasks and an online study guide. more...

  • Subjectivity and Subjectivisationby Dieter Stein; Susan Wright

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 46.00

    This study reflects the growing attention in linguistics and related disciplines commanded by the centrality in language of the speaker. more...

  • The Articulate Mammalby Jean Aitchison

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 26.95

    This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. ?An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics?highly recommended.? The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid prose Jean Aitchison introduces and demystifies... more...

  • The Art of Translationby Jirí Levý; Patrick Corness; Zuzana Jettmarová

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00

    Jiří Levý?s seminal work, The Art of Translation , considered a timeless classic in Translation Studies, is now available in English. Having drawn on adjacent disciplines, the methodology of Czech functional sociosemiotic structuralism and the state-of-the art in the West, Levý synthesized his findings and experience in the field presenting them... more...

  • Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogyby Rod Ellis

    Wiley 2012; US$ 99.95

    This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in... more...