Linguistics Books

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41. Toward a History of American Linguistics

    By E.F.K. Koerner

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

    Beginning with the anthropological linguistic tradition associated primarily with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their students and concluding with the work of Noam Chomsky and William Labov at the end of the century. This book offers a comprehensive account of essential periods and...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
42. Metaphor and Figurative Language

    Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

    Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

    With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
43. Pragmatics II

    Edited by Asa Kasher

    Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

    A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Pragmatics II is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on pragmatics. It is an essential successor collection to the editor’s Pragmatics (6 vols.) (978-0-415-11734-0), published in 1998 and described...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
44. Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause

    A Journey from Language to Experience

    By Peter Icke

    Series: Routledge Approaches to History

    The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as "the linguistic turn" in historical theory, is very well known within the discipline. His early position with regard to the historical text is frequently...

    Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
45. English Grammar

    A Resource Book for Students

    By Roger Berry

    Series: Routledge English Language Introductions

    Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
46. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

    By Alison Gibbons

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

    Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
47. Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals)

    By Otto Jespersen

    This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
48. Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and Writing

    By John Bitchener, Dana R. Ferris

    What should language and writing teachers do about giving students written corrective feedback? This book surveys theory, research, and practice on the important and sometimes controversial issue of written corrective feedback, also known as “error/grammar correction,” and its impact on second...

    Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
49. Corpus Stylistics

    Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

    By Elena Semino, Mick Short

    Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

    This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'.This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a...

    Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
50. Jokes and the Linguistic Mind

    By Debra Aarons

    Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these 'linguistic jokes' can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we use. Analyzing...

    Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge