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41. Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech

    Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

    By Joanna Hart Lowenstein

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
42. Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

    By Ren Zhang

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
43. Literacy as Translingual Practice

    Between Communities and Classrooms

    Edited by Suresh Canagarajah

    The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital communication, and globalism, increasing contact is...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
44. Critical ELT in Action

    Foundations, Promises, Praxis

    By Graham V. Crookes

    Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for...

    Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
45. Archaeology and Language I

    Theoretical and Methodological Orientations

    Edited by Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs

    Series: One World Archaeology

    Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics...

    Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
46. Spoken Corpus Linguistics

    From Monomodal to Multimodal

    By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter

    Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

    In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
47. Second Language Acquisition

    An Introductory Course, 4th Edition

    By Susan M. Gass

    Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated, and reorganized where appropriate, to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
48. Essentials of English Grammar

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1933....

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
49. What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

    By Gary Kemp

    Series: What is this thing called?

    Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major...

    Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
50. The Functional Analysis of English

    3rd Edition

    By Thomas Bloor, Meriel Bloor

    The Functional Analysis of English is an introduction to the analysis and description of English, based on the principles of systemic functional linguistics. It sets out the tools and analytic techniques of Hallidayan grammar with clear explanations of terminology and illustrates these with...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge