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Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or...
Published October 16th 1996 by Routledge
Series: The Politics of Language
Published October 9th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
First published in 1997...
Published September 30th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
First published in 1997...
Published September 30th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Interface
In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English.Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of...
Published September 11th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Translation Studies
Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work invaluable and thought-provoking reading. Sherry...
Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Interface
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry...
Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech, text, and discourse, accessible to the...
Published July 31st 1996 by Routledge
Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes
The papers in this special issue reflect an increase in research interest in the use of intonation and prosody in the processing of spoken sentences. As more is learned about sentence processing and as increased attention is paid to the processing of the spoken language, so researchers have begun...
Published July 7th 1996 by Psychology Press
Series: English Language: Past, Present and Future
In this book, writers from a range of academic disciplines examine a wide variety of text and discourse: from everyday conversation to the literary canon....
Published June 5th 1996 by Routledge
