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  1. Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages

    A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation

    Edited by Diane Brentari

    This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated. It offers careful analyses of semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological adaption of forms taken from a source language (in this case a...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  2. Language Planning in Europe

    Cyprus, Iceland and Luxembourg

    Edited by Robert Kaplan, Richard Baldauf Jr., Nkonko Kamwangamalu

    This volume focuses on language planning in Cyprus, Iceland and Luxembourg, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts and current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

  3. On Shell Structure

    By Richard K. Larson

    Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

    This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light...

    To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis

    Pedagogical and Research Tools for Teacher-Researchers

    By Rebecca Rogers, Melissa Mosley Wetzel

    Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both a guide for conducting critical...

    To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Introducing Functional Grammar

    3rd Edition

    By Geoff Thompson

    Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model. No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides: An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic...

    To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

    4th Edition

    By Michael Halliday, Christian Matthiessen

    Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal introduction for students and scholars interested in the relation between grammar, meaning and discourse. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with...

    To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Sentence Processing

    Edited by Roger P. G. van Gompel

    Series: Current Issues in the Psychology of Language

    What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? Do children, bilinguals and people with language impairments process sentences in the same way as healthy monolingual adults? These are just...

    To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Psychology Press

  8. Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals)

    Critical analysis for social and individual psychology

    By Ian Parker

    Series: Psychology Revivals

    What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? In this book, originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the...

    To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Doing Critical Literacy

    Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers

    By Hilary Janks, Kerryn Dixon, Ana Ferreira, Stella Granville, Denise Newfield

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural...

    To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge

  10. English Phonetics: Twentieth-Century Development

    Edited by Beverley Collins, Inger Mees, Paul Carley

    Series: Logos Studies in Language and Linguistics

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse By the end of the nineteenth century, phonetics was increasingly recognized as a valid scientific discipline. While early experimental and instrumental research in speech science was concentrated in Germany, France, and the USA, in Britain—thanks to the...

    To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge