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Hardcover. Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun. Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 206 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232648
- ISBN
- 9780230232648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.44
€ 122.44
Hardcover. We easily hear and see when people are talking and writing, but we often do not understand what they are talking or writing about. This book addresses some sources of confusion in discourse and offers suggestions for diminishing it. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232600
- ISBN
- 9780230232600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.37
€ 64.37
Hardcover. This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. How did the sociolinguistic past differ from the sociolinguistic present? Num Pages: 255 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; CFB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232556
- ISBN
- 9780230232556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting. It studies coded language to explain why a central bank's decisions and communicative interactions can't be devoted to a coded language which is an artificial language. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; KCBM; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232280
- ISBN
- 9780230232280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Barry. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 32 tables, 29 figures. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418. Theories and Practices. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. 328 pages, 3 black & white halftones, 32 tables, 29 figures. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Barry. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight: 414.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230637
- ISBN
- 9780230230637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.72
€ 120.72
Hardcover. Aimed at researchers and students interested in language testing theory and practice, the chapters in this book vary in style and content and are both stimulating and robust. The book brings together a fascinating group of authors from the established to the new, presenting new ideas and challenging current orthodoxies. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; JNKD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230620
- ISBN
- 9780230230620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.56
€ 122.56
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229945
- ISBN
- 9780230229945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229938
- ISBN
- 9780230229938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227965
- ISBN
- 9780230227965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59
Hardcover. How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. 232 pages, black & white illustrations. How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227958
- ISBN
- 9780230227958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.77
€ 63.77
Hardcover. This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224612
- ISBN
- 9780230224612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.45
€ 111.45
Paperback. Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth Editor(s): Sawyer, Sarah. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224377
- ISBN
- 9780230224377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Paperback. This book is a practical and insightful guide for new MA TESOL students, providing information that will shape their expectations of the field and of their program. It discusses foundational information about the profession, as well as discussion and guidance regarding the graduate school experience. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CF; CJA; EBAL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224315
- ISBN
- 9780230224315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.38
€ 62.38
Hardcover. This book is a practical and insightful guide for new MA TESOL students, providing information that will shape their expectations of the field and of their program. It discusses foundational information about the profession, as well as discussion and guidance regarding the graduate school experience. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; CJA; EBAL; EL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224308
- ISBN
- 9780230224308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
Hardcover. An investigation of the influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illness. It shows evidence of both conformity with and resistance to gender stereotypes. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222359
- ISBN
- 9780230222359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320. 182 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222090
- ISBN
- 9780230222090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Hardcover. This study looks to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski and Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and reconsiders all of the major issues in Tarski scholarship in light of the conception of Intuitionistic Formalism developed: semantics, truth, paradox, logical consequence. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221215
- ISBN
- 9780230221215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French. Num Pages: 327 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219502
- ISBN
- 9780230219502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.64
€ 122.64
Paperback. Reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. In applying this framework to a substantial corpus of texts from business magazines, the author shows how metaphors of war, sports and evolutionary struggle are used to construct business as a masculinized social domain. Num Pages: 244 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 142 x 266 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217072
- ISBN
- 9780230217072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.99
€ 121.99
Hardcover. Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more on ideological and psychological aspects of the phenomenon. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFG; JFFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230206656
- ISBN
- 9780230206656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process. Editor(s): Olsen, Frances E.; Lorz, R. Alexander; Stein, Dieter. Num Pages: 250 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; LAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203501
- ISBN
- 9780230203501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.05
€ 122.05
Hardcover. International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. They draw on a variety of corpus data to determine to what extent conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men. Editor(s): Ahrens, Kathleen. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: CFG; CFP; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203457
- ISBN
- 9780230203457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.77
€ 121.77
Paperback. This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies with different age groups, different methodological approaches and different languages. Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFDM; CJA; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203426
- ISBN
- 9780230203426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.22
€ 132.22
Hardcover. Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; CFB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202634
- ISBN
- 9780230202634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06