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Paperback. Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 3JF; CFP; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141534
- ISBN
- 9780691141534
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
€ 46.99
€ 33.49
Paperback. This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the worlda s languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. Series: Phonological Theory. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631198154
- ISBN
- 9780631198154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 42 line drawings. BIC Classification: CF; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226318134
- ISBN
- 9780226318134
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.68
€ 35.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. This collection of essays examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of Homer's work. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, Pucci focuses on two features of Homer's rhetoric - repetition of expression and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertexuality. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CFG; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822630593
- ISBN
- 9780822630593
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Condition: New
€ 70.83
€ 70.83
Paperback. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Series Editor(s): Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics. 192 pages. Introduces an area that is growing in importance within sociolinguistics, illustrating and challenging the 'great divide' between speech and writing. This book brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: CFB. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 12. Weight: 338. Series Editor(s) :Swann, Joan; Kerswill, Paul.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748637508
- ISBN
- 9780748637508
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.77
€ 37.99
€ 33.77
Paperback. This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 360 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631134626
- ISBN
- 9780631134626
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Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. A companion to the author's "Sociolinguistics of Society", this textbook examines the influence of social interaction on language use, and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631138259
- ISBN
- 9780631138259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.47
€ 62.47
Paperback. This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615520
- ISBN
- 9780748615520
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.54
€ 41.99
€ 37.54
Paperback. Editor(s): Bornstein, Harry; Saulnier, Karen L. Num Pages: 229 pages, line drawings, index. BIC Classification: CFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913580820
- ISBN
- 9780913580820
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.34
€ 18.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. Uses English language education for women in India between 1850 and 1940 as a way to explore how and why the English language became a powerful tool in struggles over caste hierarchy. This book shows how elite men linked ideas of matrimony, chastity, and heteronormativity with modernity in order to claim power on a national level. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 2AB; CFB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352273
- ISBN
- 9780822352273
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. Frank Kermode contributes a new epilogue to his collection of lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195136128
- ISBN
- 9780195136128
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Condition: New
€ 34.01
€ 34.01
Paperback. Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 272 pages, further reading, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AN; CFG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415280181
- ISBN
- 9780415280181
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Condition: New
€ 35.91
€ 35.91
Paperback. A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge. Editor(s): Miller, Jacques Alain. Translator(s): Fink, Bruce. Series: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFD; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Encore
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393319163
- ISBN
- 9780393319163
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.21
€ 23.99
€ 20.21
Paperback. Necessity is a primary meaning expressed diversely in world languages and whose evolution helps describe human cognitive development. By adopting a corpus-based approach, this book studies the five verbs from the history of English diachronically, from the language's origins (c. 750) to the end of the early Modern period (1710). Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 7. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192705
- ISBN
- 9781405192705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.02
€ 32.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 177 x 59. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118555408
- ISBN
- 9781118555408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.19
€ 110.19
Paperback. Featuring a rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, and Judith Butler, this book considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. It offers insight into the reasons why political passions are distributed to some people but not to others. It explains how psyches are shaped by power. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: CFG; HP; JMA; JMH; JMM; JMRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309804
- ISBN
- 9780226309804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.66
€ 35.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority. Series: Making of Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205104
- ISBN
- 9780631205104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.02
€ 42.02
Hardback. The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. Series: Making of Europe. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631174653
- ISBN
- 9780631174653
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Condition: New
€ 116.34
€ 116.34
Paperback. Explores the role narrative plays in human life. This book demonstrates how the ways in which people tell their stories can be indicative of how they construct their worlds and their own identities. It aims to uncover the underlying psychological processes in narrative texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 black & white tables, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415457958
- ISBN
- 9780415457958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Paperback. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744539
- ISBN
- 9780804744539
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardcover. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, over 25 million Russian speakers ended up living outside their homeland. Some remained in the non-Russian former Soviet republics which became independent states, whilst others migrated. This book discusses language and identity of the Russian speakers outside Russia from a sociolinguistic perspective. Editor(s): Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. Series: Russian Language and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748668458
- ISBN
- 9780748668458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.48€ 102.03
€ 106.48
€ 102.03
hardcover. Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FCZ; CF; HBJD; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700708994
- ISBN
- 9780700708994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 249.45
€ 249.45
Paperback. Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor. Translator(s): Czerny, R.; etc. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 454
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415312806
- ISBN
- 9780415312806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.25
€ 25.99
€ 24.25
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415709811
- ISBN
- 9780415709811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.64
€ 72.64