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Publisher: koros press research in linguistics structure and language dynamics contributors/editors: conch pubdate: price: £ http://wwwcom/language-linguistics-literature/-research_in_linguistics_structure_and_language_dynamics
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Date: price: £ http://wwwpublisher: koros press clinical linguistics: theory and applications contributors/editors: hila green, yishai tobin, et alcom/language-linguistics-literature/-clinical_linguistics:_theory_and_applications
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Publisher: koros press the new phonologies: developments in clinical linguistics contributors/editors: prezas r, et aldate: price: £ http://wwwcom/language-linguistics-literature/-the_new_phonologies:_developments_in_clinical_linguistics
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Publisher: koros press investigations in clinical phonetics and linguistics contributors/editors: peter mari pubdate: price: £ http://wwwcom/language-linguistics-literature/-investigations_in_clinical_phonetics_and_linguistics
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury controversies in applied linguistics ed barbara seidlhofer 15 : bloomsbury academic (14 mar) a very good unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth one of the best introductory books, giving a working knowledge of each area of linguistics and maintaining a consistent level of intellectual challenge throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Publisher: koros press encyclopaedia of applied research methods in clinical linguistics and phonetics (3 volumes) contributors/editors: peter mari pubdate: price: £ http://wwwcom/language-linguistics-literature/-encyclopaedia_of_applied_research_methods_in_clinical_linguistics_and_phonetics_(3_volumes)
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The sociolinguistics reader vol 1: variation & multilingualism (arnold linguistics readers): multilingualism and variation vwe want you to be delighted with your order and enjoy buying from us
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Oxfam bookshop lymington drama starring julianne moore as a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with alzheimer's diseasebeginning with the loss of a few words in the middle of a lecture, alice (moore) becomes increasingly disorientated and even begins to feel lost in her own home and neighbourhoodalong with alice, her two grown-up children (kate bosworth and hunter parrish), rebellious daughter lydia (kristen stewart) and husband john (alec baldwin) have to come to terms with the full implications of the hereditary diseasesee oxfam website for delivery information read moremoore won a golden globe, a bafta and an academy award for her performanceinitially calm after the diagnosis, alice struggles to cope with the everyday realities of the illness as her short-term memory rapidly deteriorates, forcing her to eventually leave her teaching post at columbia university
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In short, this book offers a complete, updated introduction to the current state of government and binding theory, suitable for readers with some basic knowledge of generative linguisticsoxfam bookshop thame since its first publication in liliane haegeman's introduction to government and binding theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the principles and parameters approach to syntactic theory new exercises highlight further controversial issuesdiscussions of a number of topics missing from or not paid due attention in the first edition have been integrated or expanded, for example: the structure of small clauses (in chapter 2), chain formation (in chapter 6), and reconstruction, multiple movement, wh-absorption, full interpretation, and expletive replacement (in chapter 9)see oxfam website for delivery information read moremajor structural changes include new chapters on functional heads and head movement and on relativized minimalitythis new edition has been extensively updated throughout
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George yule perfect for the beginners level introductory linguistics course, in both style and contentgood condition read more
15 €
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Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on everett's pioneering research with the amazonian pirahãs, language argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific cultureit's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human societiesrather, it's a cultural tool which varies much more across different societies than the innateness view suggestssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book is like a fire that will generate much lightlanguage presents the bold and controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain, as has been famously argued by chomsky and pinkeroxfam shop colne road like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures
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In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert david crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively english word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering)see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road featuring latinate and celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising
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This paperback edition provides a fresh look at areas of common interest to both sla and lt research, and ways in which research in these two areas of applied linguistics can be fruitfully integrated see oxfam website for delivery information read morebook condition: the covers show very little wear, though the spine is slightly faded, and there is a name written in ink on the forepage, otherwise the book is in excellent conditionthis collection thus constitutes a starting point for a continuing and expanding dialogue between sla and lt researchersthe volume includes original papers dealing with different aspects of the interface between sla and lt researchoxfam bookshop beverley the volume includes original papers addressing different aspects of the interface between second language acquisition and language testing research
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moresemantics 2 by john lyons, professor of linguistics, university of sussexlight damage and some damage to the back cover
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Semantics 1 by john lyons, professor of linguistics, university of sussex see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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12 €
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He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual declineoxfam bookshop chelmsford this collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in , explores key dimensions of jacques lacan's life and workslacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countriesthese essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alikeadvocating a 'return to freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreall essays in this companion focus on key terms in lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysisthis volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury dimensions of storytelling in german literature and beyond: "for once, telling it all from the beginning" (studies in german literature linguistics and culture) camden house hardcover - 20 decboney a very good copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
26 €
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By systematically confronting greek tradition of the heroic age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, margalit finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in greece in the second millennium bcsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe main thesis of this book is that the greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic population group consisting of both greek-speaking newcomers and the indigenous population of the land and that the body of 'hellenes' as known to us from the historic period was a deliberate self-creationthe book addresses such issues as the structure of heroic genealogy, the linguistic and cultural identity of the indigenous population of greece, the patterns of marriage between heterogeneous groups as they emerge in literary and historical sources, the dialect map of bronze age greece, the factors responsible for the collapse of the mycenaean civilisation and finally, the construction of the myth of the trojan war
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The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguisticsthe authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templatesthey focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes english, russian, polish, french, warlpiri and malaysome are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like paintheir fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and wordssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston in a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, cliff goddard and anna wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and socialthis fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and wordsthey ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from leibniz, locke, and bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the dalai lama on happiness
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Professor renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the s and s and, as a result, largely neglected sincesee oxfam website for delivery information read morechallenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the indo-european language were spoken across europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumedoxfam bookshop cheltenham in this book colin renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the indo-european family of ancient languages, from anatolia and ancient persia, across europe and the indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as sinkiang in china
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Oxfam bookshop st albans an engrossing and comprehensive account, bringing together linguistics, anthropological theories and archaeological evidenceextensively illustratedbright clean text, firmly boundgift dedication to verso of ffepsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop preston john sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for studentsbook otherwise as newall the papers have been edited and updated for this bookthis accessible book collects in one volume sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis patterns, phraseology, corpus analysis, lexicography and linguistic theory from the sprevious owner's name inscribed on first pagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe clear and accessible introduction helps students to navigate his key themes and arguments, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to sinclair's more recent writings for the first time
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Grammar emerges as the speakers of a language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols; children pick up these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around themall theories of language acquisition assume these fundamental skills of intention-reading and pattern-findingconstructing a language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisitionfor all its empirical weaknesses, chomskian generative grammar has ruled the linguistic world for forty yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intentiondrawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn languagetheir linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilitiesbut these extra processes, tomasello argues, are completely unnecessary-important to save a theory but not to explain the phenomenonsome formal linguistic theories posit a second set of acquisition processes to connect somehow with an innate universal grammaroxfam bookshop preston in this groundbreaking book, michael tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition
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Philosophy of language, inspired by frege, wittgenstein, carnap and tarski, and developed by davidson and dummett, purports to reveal the hidden forms of thought and inferencelanguage, sense and nonsense argues that these influential disciplines are the pseudosciences of the age, grounded in conceptual confusions and protected from ridicule only by a facade of scientific procedure and mathematical sophisticationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe two disciplines agree that the mysteries of the "creativity of language" can only be resolved by constructing a theory of languagescientific investigations now under way will allegedly make clear that a language is a highly complex system of rules which speakers tacitly knowoxfam bookshop preston theoretical linguistics, pioneered by saussure and much influenced by chomsky's ideas, lays claim to revolutionary insights into the nature of language and the mind
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While it is clear that around the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia wasoxfam bookshop newark paperbackwas it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? in this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before the concept of the humanities was already at the forethe making of the humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicologysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe shift around was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop aberystwyth in this book, twenty-three scholars in linguistics, folklore, english, and anthropology provide a working introduction to the history, methods, and problems of translating native american literature
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Oxfam shop burleigh street julia kristeva is an internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, and is professor of linguistics at the university of paris viisee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cardiff the first major descriptive study of linguistics vagueness - arguably the strategies of which constitute a key aspect of communicative competence of native speakers of englishsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis study shows how english provides its speakers with a great variety of ways of being vague and draws on naturally-occurring data to examine syntactic, intonational, semantic, and pragmatic considerations of vague language
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Oxfam shop fulwood road cambridge studies in linguistics 23this book offers one of the first systematic accounts of a difficult and important topicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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