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Paperback. What is human nature? How is language related to thought - and should the connection be investigated socially or scientifically? This volume seeks to establish common ground among the disciplines examining the mind-brain continuum. Editor(s): Bohn, Ocke-Schwen; Gjedde, Albert; Saleemi, Anjum P. Num Pages: 399 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 399
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779340053
- ISBN
- 9788779340053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.11
€ 13.11
Hardcover. Employs a straightforward methodology in the examination of the use of Taiwan Sign Language handshapes in five chapters. This work discusses the two approaches linguists have taken toward understanding languages, and how these theories have influenced sign language researchers' consideration of the ease of articulation and frequency of handshapes. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; CFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781563682889
- ISBN
- 9781563682889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. The word "blurb" derives from a "pulchritudinous young lady" of that fictional name who appeared on a book-cover at the turn of the century. Quarrying the "Oxford English Dictionary" for its evidence, this book traces the extraordinary way in which English words have changed their meanings. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 figures, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 468. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name on FFEP, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0008943
- ISBN
- 9780631173212
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. In this first book-length treatment of collaborative writing in second language (L2) classrooms, Neomy Storch provides a theoretical, pedagogical and empirical rationale for the use of collaborative writing activities in L2 classes, as well as some guidelines about how to best implement such activities in both face-to-face and online mode. Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CJCW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 176 x 214 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847699947
- ISBN
- 9781847699947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.04
€ 156.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 586 pages, 3. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 210 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 586
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877275336
- ISBN
- 9780877275336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. First published in 1795, this classic textbook, covering orthography, etymology, syntax and prosody, is reissued here in its 1830 forty-fourth edition. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781108067966
- ISBN
- 9781108067966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.18
€ 49.18
Paperback. A seminal 1921 work by the linguist Edward Sapir, outlining his influential ideas and hypotheses on language and its speakers. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Sunned cover. Small stain to bottom page edges. Previous owners name to FFEP, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0010373
- ISBN
- 9781108063784
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 26.99€ 23.85
€ 26.99
€ 23.85
Paperback. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 265.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230554320
- ISBN
- 9780230554320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.67
€ 137.67
Hardcover. This book presents a radically different view of language from that found in most modern Western philosophy. Human language is seen as having an innate capacity to reflect the light of consciousness, the primary element of the universe, and evidence is provided to show the extraordinary reflective capacity of the Sanskrit language. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; CFA; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856832710
- ISBN
- 9780856832710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.81
€ 32.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Gerber, Andri; Patterson, Brent. Num Pages: 302 pages, 107 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AMA; CFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837623727
- ISBN
- 9783837623727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.43
€ 50.99
€ 36.43
Paperback. From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, this title offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. It focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 150 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFL; HBT; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861891679
- ISBN
- 9781861891679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.39
€ 23.39
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631230359
- ISBN
- 9780631230359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.41
€ 111.41
paperback. By explaining language change with close reference to literary and other textual examples and emphasising the integral link between a language and its society, this text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780340806951
- ISBN
- 9780340806951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.20
€ 45.20
Paperback. Runes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to their use and meaning in the modern world. Num Pages: 112 pages, 38 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AC; CBX; CFF; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780714180298
- ISBN
- 9780714180298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.50
€ 14.99
€ 12.50
Paperback. Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it. Editor(s): Blommaert, Jan; Leppanen, Sirpa; Pahta, Paivi; Virkkula, T.; Raisanen, Tiina. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 343 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; CFDM; CFGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340392
- ISBN
- 9781349340392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. What really is correctness? Why do people care so much about it? What is at stake in the quarrel about good and bad usage? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBG; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0015467
- ISBN
- 9781848542099
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Offers a description of the Venetian, Michel Membre's mission to the court of Shah Tahmasp I of Persia. This book offers a European accounts of 16th century Persia. It features his adventures and observations in a narrative. Editor(s): Clauson, Gerard. Num Pages: 144 pages, notes, translation, commentary, indices. BIC Classification: 2BXF; 2FMC; CBDX; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780906094310
- ISBN
- 9780906094310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 64.47
€ 65.27
€ 64.47
Paperback. Tales of adventure and courage among the peoples of Eastern Siberia Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCS; 3JH; CF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 108 x 23. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- International Polar Institute Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint of 1918 ed.
- SKU
- V9780982170342
- ISBN
- 9780982170342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.14
€ 24.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 580 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 580
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226060675
- ISBN
- 9780226060675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03€ 44.25
€ 51.03
€ 44.25
Paperback. Usable Greek helps for all New Testament students, from novice to veteran Num Pages: 112 pages, charts. BIC Classification: CFF; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 189 x 7. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Kregel Publications,U.S.
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825427435
- ISBN
- 9780825427435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.67
€ 20.99
€ 19.67
Hardback. Series: Language Testing and Evaluation. Num Pages: 320 pages, fig. and tables. BIC Classification: CFDC; CJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 221 x 27. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG
- Edition
- 1st New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631589816
- ISBN
- 9783631589816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.97
€ 87.97
Hardcover. Voices in Dialogue, a collection of essays which outline key issues in the cultural history of medieval women. Some provide evidence that women in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages achieved an accomplished form of literacy and became actively involved in literary networks. Others discuss women's ministry and spiritual leadership. Editor(s): Olson, Linda; Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. Num Pages: 608 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; CFC; HBTB; HRCX4; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268037178
- ISBN
- 9780268037178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.91
€ 56.91
Paperback. Presents an investigation into the evolution of language. This book exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication. Along the way, it teaches why German maidens are neuter while German turnips are female, why we have feet not foots, and how great changes of pronunciation may result from simple laziness. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBX; CFFD; HBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099460251
- ISBN
- 9780099460251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. This book critically analyses and reviews the development of language in direct relation to social disadvantage in the early years and beyond. Definitions and descriptions of social disadvantage are addressed and the wider aspects discussed. Editor(s): Clegg, Judy; Ginsborg, Jane. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFD; JMC; MMZL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470019757
- ISBN
- 9780470019757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.00
€ 73.00