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Paperback. Presents a treatise that looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: CFA; GTE; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140235906
- ISBN
- 9780140235906
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
€ 17.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form,in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801841156
- ISBN
- 9780801841156
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.73
€ 32.99
€ 27.73
Paperback. These essays, written by scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Editor(s): Bloomer, W. Martin. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268021917
- ISBN
- 9780268021917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Hardcover. These essays, written by scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Editor(s): Bloomer, W. Martin. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268021900
- ISBN
- 9780268021900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.31
€ 108.31
The Core and the Periphery. Data-driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspire...
. Ed(S): Hofmeister, Philip; Norcliffe, Elisa...
Hardback. Including papers that were inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A Sag (1949-2013), this title is written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. It tackles a range of grammar-related issues and shares the perspective that the best theories of grammar attempt to account for the full diversity and complexity of language data. Editor(s): Hofmeister, Philip; Norcliffe, Elisabeth. Series: Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575867205
- ISBN
- 9781575867205
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Condition: New
€ 57.88€ 49.58
€ 57.88
€ 49.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Biguenet, John; Schulte, Rainer. Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226048697
- ISBN
- 9780226048697
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the experts, how to cope with rehearsals), this book provides a complete primer to the art of playwriting. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AN; CFG; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571215102
- ISBN
- 9780571215102
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Hardback. Analyses the symbiotic relationship between rhetoric and homiletics, proposing a metaphor interface between the two disciplines. Contemporary research on metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric, sociology and theology is employed to produce a rhetorical/metaphorical homiletics. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HRAB; HRCX4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 142
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819188458
- ISBN
- 9780819188458
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Condition: New
€ 121.88
€ 121.88
Paperback. Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; EBAL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415788137
- ISBN
- 9780415788137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.79
€ 63.79
Paperback. A study of the fundamental building blocks that serve to organise natural language systems. The author argues that there are two distinct forms of agreement in linguistic theory: feature compatibility and an abstract syntactic relation. Her primary source of evidence is Chamorro, an Austro-nesian language spoken on Guam and Saipan. Num Pages: 436 pages, 554 tree diagrams. BIC Classification: 2PG; CFA; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226106090
- ISBN
- 9780226106090
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.12
€ 52.99
€ 41.12
Paperback. This volume focuses on the past and present development of African American vernacular English, particularly its development during the antebellum period and its trajectory of change in 20th-century. It studies an isolated bi-racial community situated in a distinctive dialect region. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 2ABM; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230878
- ISBN
- 9780631230878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.18
€ 76.18
paperback. An overview of knowledge of language development in children. The book explores all of the principle strands of language development and explains and evaluates related theories, focusing on nativism versus empiricism and domain-specificity versus domain generality. Editor(s): Barrett, Martyn D. Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology. Num Pages: 430 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDC; JMC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863778476
- ISBN
- 9780863778476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.72
€ 58.72
Paperback. How and why do languages change over time? Could the way an individual child develops affect aggregate language change? What do the mechanisms of change tell us about the evolution of language in our species? This book asserts that a child develops a grammar on exposure to some triggering experience. Series: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFFD; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631210603
- ISBN
- 9780631210603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. It is an internal history of the structure of English that combines traditional historical linguistics, modern syntactic theory, the study of languages in contact, and the variationist approach to language change. Series: A Linguistic History of English. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFH; CFK; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 43. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198787198
- ISBN
- 9780198787198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. * Phonetic symbols are included with orthographic representations of speech sounds* Includes many detailed maps which illustrate the origins of various dialects* Celebrates the diversity of English dialects. . Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631218159
- ISBN
- 9780631218159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.15
€ 42.15
paperback. First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Editor(s): Russ, Charles. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 818.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415861809
- ISBN
- 9780415861809
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Condition: New
€ 71.21
€ 71.21
Paperback. Gathers papers from the conference held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. This title offers a fresh perspective on approaches to writing that can be significant for the understanding of writing systems and their social functions, literacy, memory, and high-cultural communication systems in general. Editor(s): Baines, John; Bennet, Professor John; Houston, Stephen. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 figures. BIC Classification: CFLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 206 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781845539078
- ISBN
- 9781845539078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.90
€ 49.90
Hardcover. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814708460
- ISBN
- 9780814708460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.77
€ 84.77
Paperback. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814725306
- ISBN
- 9780814725306
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.61
€ 33.99
€ 30.61
Paperback. An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives. Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349367764
- ISBN
- 9781349367764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.12
€ 63.12