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Paperback. Collects for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and these essays emphasize the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. Num Pages: 400 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFD; CFX; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 248 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190259280
- ISBN
- 9780190259280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.42
€ 30.42
paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141980775
- ISBN
- 9780141980775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, the author turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent dimensions of reading. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; CJCR; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861892096
- ISBN
- 9781861892096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
hardcover. Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communication from the time before human language was conceived through to the media explosion of the present day. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11ill. BIC Classification: CFFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890511
- ISBN
- 9781861890511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.49
€ 33.49
Paperback. It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. This book begins with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of 'language' might be applied. Series: Globalities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861890801
- ISBN
- 9781861890801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
Paperback. This study of American behavioural and thought patterns analyzes Americans' perceptual processes and how they contrast with the ways of thinking of other cultures. It should help the reader examine the cultural dimensions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFB; GTC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877864018
- ISBN
- 9781877864018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.91
€ 19.99
€ 14.91
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; CFG; GTC; HBJD; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penn State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064208
- ISBN
- 9780271064208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.74
€ 51.74
Paperback. Contains text in French. Num Pages: 150 pages, tables. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788773077214
- ISBN
- 9788773077214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.59
€ 15.59
Paperback. Series: Mulicultural Education Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFC; EBA; JNFR; JNSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Teachers' College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807755129
- ISBN
- 9780807755129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.20
€ 53.20
Paperback. Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 343 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BRT; 3JH; 3JJ; CFB; CFG; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208056
- ISBN
- 9780520208056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.87
€ 48.87
Paperback. Describes strategies employed by teachers and students in periphery communities to use the English language while resisting the linguistic imperialism as the consequence of the global ELT enterprise. This book outlines critical pedagogy suitable for ELT in formerly colonized communities. It is also useful for curriculum planners and policy makers. Series: Oxford Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CFB; EBA. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780194421546
- ISBN
- 9780194421546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.01
€ 78.01
Paperback. In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBH; DSC; HPN; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 171 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition.
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773512436
- ISBN
- 9780773512436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.46
€ 58.46
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415506731
- ISBN
- 9780415506731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.62
€ 39.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; CFGA; KJP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manor House Publishing Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897453407
- ISBN
- 9781897453407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.74
€ 20.99
€ 15.74
Hardcover. Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics. Editor(s): Ehrlich, Susan; Meyerhoff, Miriam; Holmes, Janet. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 688 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470656426
- ISBN
- 9780470656426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 260.03
€ 260.03
Paperback. Susan Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform their domestic lives. This achieves victories on some fronts, but also reinforces their image as subordinate to men through the speech they produce in court. Series: Language & Legal Discourse S. Num Pages: 370 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; CF; JFSJ; JFSR2; JHBK; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226344645
- ISBN
- 9780226344645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.55
€ 50.55
Paperback. Combines the interests of the two approaches to language description - Systemic Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics - both of which are based on the observation of naturally-occurring, as opposed to invented, language. Editor(s): Hunston, Susan; Thompson, Geoff. Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 61 illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781845532512
- ISBN
- 9781845532512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.50
€ 42.99
€ 39.50
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
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415743891
- ISBN
- 9780415743891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.82
€ 64.82
Hardcover. Structuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. * Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. * Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories. Series: Explorations in Semantics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 7. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405106672
- ISBN
- 9781405106672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.73
€ 200.73