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Hardback. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, this book explores how the English language industry threatens the diversity of languages and cultures in the modern world. It reveals how the dominance of English is being confronted and calls for greater efforts to ensure the maintenance of linguistic and cultural diversity. Editor(s): Bunce, Pauline; Phillipson, Robert; Rapatahana, Vaughan; Tupas, Ruanni. Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 318 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783095841
- ISBN
- 9781783095841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.32
€ 192.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441166098
- ISBN
- 9781441166098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.27
€ 40.27
Paperback. Moustapha Safouan, in this courageous and honest book, confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history. * A ground-breaking book written by the eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst Moustapha Safouan. Series: Critical Quarterly Book Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; CFB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405161718
- ISBN
- 9781405161718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.36
€ 20.36
Hardback. Detailed presentation by an expert in this effective teaching approach. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; G; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566760072
- ISBN
- 9781566760072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.27
€ 95.27
hardcover. 'Who's Whose?' is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. So if you mistrust (or distrust?) your spellchecker and want to maintain or improve your written English, this is a helpful companion for you. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374. Keywords: "Reference & Languages - Language - General,Subjects - Reference - Language - General"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KT00001339
- ISBN
- 9780747572312
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
Paperback. Are books on the way to extinction or just adapting to our changing world? Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772121247
- ISBN
- 9781772121247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.94
€ 13.99
€ 11.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1993
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349225484
- ISBN
- 9781349225484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.41
€ 126.41
hardcover. The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the culture of the English-speaking world but reject its unspoken consensual position on many issues. This study examines the way these English-speakers see themselves, and how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333365731
- ISBN
- 9780333365731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Where Humans Meet Machines: Innovative Solutions for Knotty Natural-La...
. Ed(S): Neustein, Amy; Markowitz, Judith A.
hardcover. Where Human Meets Machine Editor(s): Neustein, Amy; Markowitz, Judith A. Num Pages: 315 pages, 34 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade United States
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461469339
- ISBN
- 9781461469339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Paperback. This book discusses the most recent advances in intelligent human-computer interaction, including fascinating new findings on talk-in-interaction, which is the province of conversation analysis, a new and emerging area in natural language understanding. Editor(s): Neustein, Amy; Markowitz, Judith A. Num Pages: 330 pages, 34 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; TGBN; THRD; TTBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489991829
- ISBN
- 9781489991829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, xvi, 378 p. BIC Classification: CFB; PBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226895024
- ISBN
- 9780226895024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.69
€ 44.99
€ 34.69
Paperback. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; CFF; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590173756
- ISBN
- 9781590173756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.82
€ 22.82
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350941
- ISBN
- 9781584350941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Provides information needed to organize, write, and deliver effective, entertaining speeches, from installations to toasts and roasts. This book pinpoints possible speaking contingencies, from failed electricity to a bored audience, and for each one tells how to prevent it, what to do about it, and what to say about it. Num Pages: 271 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: CBP; CFG; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780070680395
- ISBN
- 9780070680395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.07
€ 30.99
€ 22.07
Paperback. Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. This title investigates the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists. Series: Sound & Meaning; the Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics. Num Pages: 188 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822311706
- ISBN
- 9780822311706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," this volume explores a number of areas, including the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; and the notion of conventional meaning. Editor(s): Penco, Carlo; Domaneschi, Filippo. Series: Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575866673
- ISBN
- 9781575866673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.85
€ 37.99
€ 29.85
Hardback. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792307921
- ISBN
- 9780792307921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.08
€ 133.08
Paperback. Editor(s): Gabbay, Dov M.; Wansing, Heinrich. Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048151691
- ISBN
- 9789048151691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 250.00
€ 250.00
Hardcover. What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works. Series: Fundamentals of Linguistics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 51. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405109178
- ISBN
- 9781405109178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.69
€ 126.69
Paperback. What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works. Series: Fundamentals of Linguistics. Num Pages: 248 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405109185
- ISBN
- 9781405109185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.05
€ 40.05
Paperback. Series: Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy. Num Pages: 144 pages, 30 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156392
- ISBN
- 9780691156392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.43
€ 30.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages, 5000 entries. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CFB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781805902
- ISBN
- 9780781805902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.24
€ 15.99
€ 15.24
Paperback. This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349299003
- ISBN
- 9781349299003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. This is a critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic) from Plato to today. The volume concentrates on those issues that are of central concern to present-day theoretical linguistics. Num Pages: 592 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631208914
- ISBN
- 9780631208914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.99
€ 76.99