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Technology's Impact on the Way We Write

By Frank I. Luntz

£9.99 18 Jun 2008 Paperback Hyperion

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doreen D. Wu

£23.95 15 Jun 2008 Paperback Hong Kong University Press

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doreen D. Wu

£35.95 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Hong Kong University Press

Remapping Narrative

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gian S. Pagnucci, Nicholas Mauriello

£18.95 15 Jun 2008 Paperback Hampton Press

This is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility.

Remapping Narrative

15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Technology's Impact on the Way We Write

By Gian S. Pagnucci, Nicholas Mauriello

£47.50 15 Jun 2008 Hardback Hampton Press

This is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility.

Conversation Analysis

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ian Hutchby, Robin Wooffitt

£60.00 12 Jun 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes? This book explores the contribution of Conversation Analysis to key issues in social science.

Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values

01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

By Christopher Viger, Robert J. Stainton

£101.50 01 Jun 2008 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doreen D. Wu

£23.95 15 May 2008 Paperback Hong Kong University Press

Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doreen D. Wu

£35.95 15 May 2008 Hardback Hong Kong University Press

Meaning in Context

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies

By Jonathan J. Webster

£75.00 15 May 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Exploring the construction of meaning in language, this book shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language. It uses systemic functional theory to examine a range of issues including corpus linguistics and multimodality.

Conversation Analysis

15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ian Hutchby, Robin Wooffitt

£60.00 15 May 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Words That Work

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Culture, Communication and Politeness Theory

By Frank I. Luntz

£9.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Hyperion

Syntactic Anchors

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On Semantic Structuring

By Juan Uriagereka

£65.00 08 May 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

An examination of the relationship between structure and meaning in words.

Vagueness in Context

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shapiro, Stewart

£16.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Stewart Shapiro develops an account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language. The key feature is that extensions of vague terms vary in the course of conversations and, in some cases, a speaker can go either way without sinning against the meaning of the words or the non-linguistic facts.

Thinking Without Words

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jose Luis Bermudez

£10.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Culturally Speaking

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Helen Spencer-Oatey

£21.99 24 Apr 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures. This book provides an introduction to the issues in culture and communication and an examination of cross-cultural and intercultural communication.

Forensic Linguistics

03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Olsson

£21.99 03 Apr 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Includes chapters on language in justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. This book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading. It is intended for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time.

Forensic Linguistics

03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Olsson

£75.00 03 Apr 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Academic Writing and Genre: A Systematic Analysis

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Systematic Analysis

By Bruce, Ian

£75.00 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

Genre-based courses enable second language learners to integrate their linguistic, organisational and contextual knowledge in a variety of different tasks. This book reviews pedagogical approaches to genre through English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics to present a synthesis of the research in the field.

Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning

01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Steinmetz, Sol

£8.21 01 Apr 2008 Hardback Random House Reference Publishing

Lexicographer Steinmetz conducts an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.

Historical Corpus Stylistics

27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Media, Technology and Change

By Patrick Studer

£75.00 27 Mar 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Using data from a newspaper corpus, this book offers an empirical study into the development of style in early mass media. It analyses how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production and technological innovation and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

Vagueness in Context

06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stewart Shapiro

£16.99 06 Mar 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Lexical Plurals

06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Morphosemantic Approach

By Paola Acquaviva

£22.99 06 Mar 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. Using tools from formal semantics and theoretical morphology, Dr Acquaviva analyzes the countless number of examples of word-dependent irregularities in the form and meaning of plural, and in doing so sheds light on the relation between grammar and the lexicon.

Lexical Plurals

06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Morphosemantic Approach

By Paola Acquaviva

£60.00 06 Mar 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning

01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How Focus Determines Meaning

By Beaver, David

£50.00 01 Mar 2008 Hardback Wiley-Blackwell

Explores the semantic and pragmatic effects of focus in natural language discourse. This book concentrates on focus sensitivity, the remarkable dependency some words have on the effects of focus. It also gives an account of focus sensitivity, the QFC theory, which involves a three-way distinction between the different effects of focus.

Academic Writing and Genre

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Systematic Analysis

By Ian Bruce

£75.00 24 Jan 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Discourse and Politeness

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ambivalent Face in Japanese

By Naomi Geyer

£75.00 24 Jan 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. This book seeks to establish an analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating politeness, and describes facework in delicate situations such as disagreement, teasing and talking about troubles.

Contemporary Stylistics

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marina Lambrou, Peter Stockwell

£85.00 24 Jan 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Presents a survey of the state of the integrated study of language and literature. This book contains chapters, which provide a showcase for the range of approaches and practices which form modern stylistics. It represents the stylistics practice, including the traditions, roots and rigour of the discipline.

Typology of Semantic Alignment

24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Donohue, Soren Wichmann

£75.00 24 Jan 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Leading scholars explore the characteristics of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of languages with and without them, with special reference to Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, where semantically aligned languages are concentrated.

Discourse and Politeness

06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ambivalent Face in Japanese

By Naomi Geyer

£75.00 06 Jan 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

The Meaning of Nouns

30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Semantic Theory in Classical and Medieval India

By Madhav M. Deshpande

£26.99 30 Dec 2007 Hardback DK Print World

Handbook of Pragmatics

01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

2007 Installment

By Jeff Verschueren

£87.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback John Benjamins Publishing Co

Conversation in Context: A Corpus-Driven Approach

01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Corpus-driven Approach

By Ruhlemann, Christoph

£75.00 01 Dec 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

Examines real-life speech data from the British National Corpus to show how language is used in natural conversation. This monograph describes the composition, annotation and transcription of the corpus, as well as providing a discussion of the methodology used in corpus analysis.

Words That Work

22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Frank I. Luntz

£9.99 22 Nov 2007 Paperback Hyperion

Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics

By Hoey, Michael Mahlberg, Michaela Stubbs, Michael

£25.00 01 Nov 2007 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group

Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right. This book includes coverage of the lexical priming theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions. It illustrates the theoretical arguments.

Context-sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism

18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter

£60.00 18 Oct 2007 Hardback Oxford University Press

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the debate is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism.

Context-sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism

18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics

By Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter

£19.99 18 Oct 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

------------------------------------------------------------ Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that
context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context in communication, and reveal its wide-ranging
implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and linguistics.

Text, Discourse and Corpora

11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Hoey, Michaela Mahlberg, Michael Stubbs, Wolfgang Teubert, John Sinclair

£75.00 11 Oct 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Words That Work

08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Frank I. Luntz

£9.99 08 Oct 2007 Paperback Hyperion

Japanese Language in Use: An Introduction

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Yamaguchi, Toshiko

£25.00 01 Oct 2007 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group

A companion volume to "Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction", this work introduces pragmatics, discourse, and language and culture in the Japanese context. It covers: Language in context; Japanese in conversation; Honorifics and politeness; Language and gender; and Young people's language.

Reference Without Referents

01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Sainsbury, R. M.

£17.99 01 Oct 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Text, Discourse and Corpora

28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Hoey, Michaela Mahlberg, Michael Stubbs, Wolfgang Teubert, John Sinclair

£25.00 28 Sep 2007 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Text, Discourse and Corpora

28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Language, Lexicography and the Law

By Michael Hoey, Michaela Mahlberg, Michael Stubbs, Wolfgang Teubert, John Sinclair

£75.00 28 Sep 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Conversation in Context

27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Corpus-driven Approach

By Christoph Ruhlemann, Michael McCarthy

£75.00 27 Sep 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Reference without Referents

20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Sainsbury

£17.99 20 Sep 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Argument Structure

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Eric J. Reuland, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Giorgos Spathas

£76.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback John Benjamins Publishing Co

Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Meaning In Society

By Hasan, Ruqaiya

£25.00 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Equinox Publishing

This volume makes a contribution to a neglected area in sociolinguistics, namely variation at the level of meaning, i.e., semantic variation. The chapters in this volume discuss the results of an empirical research strongly supporting the view that systematic variation in the choice of semantic elements occurs across different social strata.

Existence

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Semantics and Syntax

By Ileana Comorovski, Klaus von Heusinger

£88.50 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

Definition in Theory and Practice: Language, Lexicography and the Law

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Harris, Roy Hutton, Christopher

£75.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

The problem of definition has a long history and has engaged the minds of some of the most eminent thinkers in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle onwards. This work focuses on two areas where difficulties arise in a particularly acute form: lexicography and the law.

Spoken Language Pragmatics: Analysis of Form-Function Relations

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Analysis of Form-function Relations

By Weinert, Regina

£75.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

Provides an analysis of the relationships between form and function in spoken language. This book demonstrates the effect of informational, discourse-external and personal factors on form and shows how speakers position themselves in relation to their discourse, orchestrate different tasks, move between different 'voices', and negotiate meaning.

Collected Works of M A K Halliday Set

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Halliday, M. A. K.

£600.00 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

As a self-styled 'generalist' Michael Halliday has published in many branches of linguistics, including grammar and semantics, discourse analysis and stylistics, phonology, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, language education and child language development. This ten-volume set encompasses these aspects of Halliday's work.

Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry

By M O Rourke

£25.95 01 Sep 2007 Paperback Mit Press

Provides original commentary on the work of philosopher John Perry by prominent contemporary analytic philosophers, with Perry's detailed and original responses. This work features topics that include the metaphysics of identity, semantics, and philosophy of mind.

Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry

01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry

By M O Rourke

£51.95 01 Sep 2007 Hardback Mit Press

Reference without Referents

30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Sainsbury

£17.99 30 Aug 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Origins of Meaning

30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Language in the Light of Evolution

By James R. Hurford

£20.00 30 Aug 2007 Hardback Oxford University Press

Reference without Referents

26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Sainsbury

£17.99 26 Aug 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Japanese Language in Use

09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Toshiko Yamaguchi

£25.00 09 Aug 2007 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Japanese Language in Use

09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Cross-linguistic Typology

By Toshiko Yamaguchi

£75.00 09 Aug 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Reference without Referents

09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Sainsbury

£17.99 09 Aug 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Language of Sexual Crime

03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Janet Cotterill

£50.00 03 Aug 2007 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.

Serial Verb Constructions

02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon

£24.99 02 Aug 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms.

Hatchs Order of Magnitude: Methodical Rankings of the Commonplace & the Incredible for Daily Reference by a Man of Extraordinary

01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Hatch, Michael

£8.24 01 Aug 2007 Paperback Writers Digest Books

Hatchs Order of Magnitude is intended as a tool for writers, a catalyst for debate, a handrail for the imagination, and much more. The declarative audacity of this book could spark discussion from regular folks to taxonomists, stand-up comics to lexicographers, writers, teachers, and other language professionals and enthusiasts. The book endlessly identifies the Best, Worst, Least, Most, Biggest, Smallest, Hottest, Coldest, in short, the Ultimate. While some of Hatchs lists have informational usesuch as degrees of distancenearly every list has an element of whimsy, especially lists such as degrees of flat circular bread

Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese

01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Teruya, Kazuhiro

£150.00 01 Aug 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

Providing a systemic functional interpretation of Japanese grammar, this book describes it as a resource for making meaning rather than as a set of formal rules. It offers an overview of the main systems of grammar and emphasises the semiotic potential of Japanese and language in general.

Reference without Referents

26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By R.M. Sainsbury

£17.99 26 Jul 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Spoken Language Pragmatics

19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Analysis of Form-function Relations

By Regina Weinert

£75.00 19 Jul 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Latent Semantic Mapping

15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Principles and Applications

By Jerome R. Bellegarda

£22.50 15 Jul 2007 Paperback Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Collected Works of M A K Halliday

07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By M.A.K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster

£600.00 07 Jul 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society

01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Meaning In Society

By Hasan, Ruqaiya

£25.00 01 Jul 2007 Paperback Equinox Publishing

Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society

01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Meaning in Society

By Hasan, Ruqaiya

£55.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Equinox Publishing

Semantic Relationism

01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Kit Fine

£45.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. Based upon the Brown/Blackwell lecture series and the John Locke lectures, this work is suitable for those interested in the general nature of representation.

Definition in Theory and Practice: Language, Lexicography and the Law

01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Language, Lexicography and the Law

By Harris, Roy Hutton, Christopher

£75.00 01 Jul 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group

Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages Grammar and Semantics

30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Colin P. Masica

£53.50 30 Jun 2007 Hardback Motilal Banarsidass,India

Includes papers growing out of the 5th international conference on South Asian linguistics, held in Moscow in July 2003. This work represents a sample of the scholarship on South Asian languages, historical, descriptive and typological.

Discourse, Technology and Change

30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Brenton D. Faber

£75.00 30 Jun 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Presents a detailed analysis of discourses that initiate, enable, and stabilise social change in organizational contexts. This book examines the function of written discourse within this setting to examine the dynamic relationships between writing, technology, and socio-cultural change.

Variation and Change in the Lexicon

29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Corpus-based Analysis of Adjectives in English Ending in -ic and -ical

By Mark Kaunisto

£53.57 29 Jun 2007 Hardback Editions Rodopi B.V.

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By Kazuhiro Teruya

£150.00 28 Jun 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition

By Arie Verhagen

£22.99 28 Jun 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Develops an understanding of linguistic communication focussed on cognition. The author treats pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel and integrates linguistics, psychology, and studies in animal behaviour. He also shows the continuity between language and animal communication and reveals the nature of human linguistic specialization.

Default Semantics

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication

By K.M. Jaszczolt

£22.99 28 Jun 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Lays down the foundations of an original theory of meaning in discourse. The author reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts forward a basis for the analysis of discourse processing. She also provides a step-by-step introduction to the theory and its application, and explains terms and formalisms as required.

Japanese Language in Use

21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication

By Toshiko Yamaguchi

£75.00 21 Jun 2007 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Default Semantics

21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

By K.M. Jaszczolt

£22.99 21 Jun 2007 Paperback Oxford University Press

Words That Work

14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT