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Paperback. An updated and significantly expanded edition of McPhail's "The Rhetoric of Racism", this text looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism - how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFG; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742517196
- ISBN
- 9780742517196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. Arguing that the prevailing conception of historical linguistics is flawed, the author presents a series of linguistic studies which demonstrate that all extant human languages share a common origin. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804728058
- ISBN
- 9780804728058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.19
€ 40.99
€ 36.19
Hardback. This book applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale work of its kind in English, and contains extensive examples from literary and non-literary sources including Plautus and Cicero. Num Pages: 1464 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 292 x 258 x 60. Weight in Grams: 2048.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199283613
- ISBN
- 9780199283613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 320.02
€ 320.02
Paperback. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 14-20, 1997 Editor(s): Saitovitch, E.Baggio; Rechenberg, H.; Scorzelli, R.B. Num Pages: 482 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; PHN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 913.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 482
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402008825
- ISBN
- 9781402008825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Hardcover. The Nature of Language Num Pages: 201 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, 55 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: CFD; JMM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493906086
- ISBN
- 9781493906086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Hardcover. With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this text clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have with a critical discourse analysis perspective. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333993354
- ISBN
- 9780333993354
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.19
€ 122.19
Hardback. This book builds on the success of Glanville Pricea s The Languages of Britain, published in 1984, which was widely acclaimed as the most lively, reliable and comprehensive survey of the great number of languages that have at one time or another taken root in Britain. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215806
- ISBN
- 9780631215806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Gardenfors, Peter. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
- Number of pages
- 317
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556080180
- ISBN
- 9781556080180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 186.43
€ 186.43
Hardback. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792306283
- ISBN
- 9780792306283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.81
€ 189.81
Hardback. As a young student in Paris, Robert O'Connell was first enamoured of the artistic imagery of Augustine's works. Now, after years of research and study, he offers a treatment of Augustine's "image clusters" which should be of interest to readers of philosophy, theology or language. Num Pages: 309 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCB; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 607.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823213474
- ISBN
- 9780823213474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.62
€ 109.62
Hardcover. This is the first volume exclusively devoted to research methods in language policy and planning (LPP). Series: GMLZ - Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; GPS; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118308387
- ISBN
- 9781118308387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.33
€ 112.33
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
€ 108.32
€ 108.32
Hardback. Represents the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002. A number of the papers examine the syntactic representation of lexical or situation aspect, while others focus on the syntactic interaction of lexical aspect with grammatical aspect, and of grammatical aspect and tense. Editor(s): Kempchinsky, Paula; Slabakova, Roumyana. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 460 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 835.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402030321
- ISBN
- 9781402030321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.89
€ 194.89
Paperback. Organised with the assistance of an international advisory committee of medievalists, this is a standard guide to the Latin language and literature of the period from c 200 AD to 1500. It should be useful for the study of Latin texts and documents in any fields of medieval studies. Editor(s): Mantello, F. A. C.; Rigg, A. G. Num Pages: 768 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CFK; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 173 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813208428
- ISBN
- 9780813208428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.29
€ 59.29
Paperback. aeo Written by twelve linguists all internationally recognized as leaders in their fields of specialization. aeo Exercises and data--analysis problems within and at end of each chapter help students learn what it means to actually do linguistics. aeo Includes the latest developments in theoretical linguistics; for example, Optimality Theory. Editor(s): Fromkin, Victoria A. Num Pages: 768 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 768
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631228493
- ISBN
- 9780631228493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.37
€ 99.37
paperback. Covers the specific aspects of prosody, focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications. This book discusses proposed methods along with techniques for the acquisition and incorporation of prosodic knowledge for developing speech systems. Series: Springerbriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering / Springerbriefs in Speech Technology. Num Pages: 130 pages, 42 black & white illustrations, 59 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; TTBM; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 229.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461413370
- ISBN
- 9781461413370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. Analyses the development of a number of English and French constructions involving various kinds of subject-verb inversion. This book contains analysis which is framed in terms of principles-and-parameters approach to syntactic theory, and provides support for the adoption of this approach in the description and explanation of language change. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792317050
- ISBN
- 9780792317050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.37
€ 193.37
Paperback. Focuses on the relationships between linguistic insights and language technology. In this volume, contributors offer perspectives on semantic representations for textual inference. Editor(s): Condoravdi, Cleo; De Paiva, Valeria; Zaenen, Annie E. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; CFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575868448
- ISBN
- 9781575868448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.54
€ 27.99
€ 22.54
Paperback. In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgensteina s analysis of the notion of following a rule. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631135210
- ISBN
- 9780631135210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.64
€ 34.99
€ 34.64
paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHB; CFF; CJBT; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 7. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780310329077
- ISBN
- 9780310329077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.87
€ 10.99
€ 10.87
Hardback. Demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. This title provides fresh insights in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, and in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402057830
- ISBN
- 9781402057830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Paperback. 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: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFP; JFSJ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301270
- ISBN
- 9781349301270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.53
€ 122.53
Hardcover. In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. Opposed to mainstream cognitive assumptions, it provides detailed data-driven research and one realistic solution to many of the dilemmas. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332691
- ISBN
- 9781137332691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. Examines the relations between grammar, text, and discourse. This book intends to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis. It introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process, and focuses on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234517
- ISBN
- 9780631234517
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.78
€ 139.78