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Written in a clear and accessible style, David Barton and Carmen Lee look at language online from a variety of perspectives, providing a solid theoretical grounding, an outline of key concepts, and practical guidance on doing research. Chapters cover topical issues including the relation between online language and multilingualism, identity, education and multimodality. The book concludes by looking at how to carry out research into online language use.

This is a vital read for anyone new to studying online language and an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates working in the areas of new media, literacy and multimodality within language and linguistics courses.

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Now in its 4th edition, Susan M. Gass' key textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field including, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory.

Second Language Acquisition 4th edition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology.

This clearly-written, comprehensive, and current textbook is the ideal textbook for the introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and language education programs.

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* Mike Long is a Professor of SLA, at the University of Maryland

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Edited alongside Bethan Davies, Clive Upton's latest project, Analysing 21st Century British English: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the 'Voices' Project, publishes on 13th May 2013.

Analysing 21st Century British English explores both issues of ideology and representation behind the BBC Voices project and uses to which the emerging data can be put in the study of language variation and change.

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The third edition of this best-selling textbook is now available. Written by authors who are experienced teachers and researchers, it appeals to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the Routledge English Language Introductions series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings—all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections—introduction, development, exploration and extension—which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.

Revised and updated throughout, this third edition of Practical Phonetics and Phonology:

• presents the essentials of the subject and their day-to-day applications in an engaging and accessible manner
• covers all the core concepts of speech science, such as the phoneme, syllable structure, production of speech, vowel and consonant possibilities, glottal settings, stress, rhythm, intonation and the surprises of connected speech
• incorporates classic readings from key names in the discipline including David Abercrombie, David Crystal, Dennis Fry, Daniel Jones, Peter Ladefoged, Peter Trudgill and John Wells
• includes an audio CD containing a collection of samples provided by genuine speakers of 25 accent varieties from Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore and West Africa
• gives outlines of the sound systems of six key languages from around the world
• contains over a hundred activity exercises, many accompanied by audio material
• is accompanied by a brand new companion website featuring additional guidance, audio files, keys to activities in the book, further exercises and activities, and extra practice in phonemic transcription.

New features of this edition include an additional reading on teaching pronunciation, phonetic descriptions of three more languages (Japanese, Polish and Italian), expanded material on spelling/sound relationships, more information on acquiring the pronunciation of a foreign language, additional suggestions for further reading and much new illustrative material.

Six sections, comprising twenty-five self-contained units, cover:

• techniques of analysis and problem-solving
• language variation
• attributing meaning
• poetic uses of language
• narrative
• drama and performance texts

The book combines the linguistic and literary background to each topic with discussion of examples from books, poems, magazines and online sources, and links those examples to follow-up practical activities and a list of titles for further reading.

This new edition has been redesigned and updated throughout, with many fresh examples and exercises. Further reading suggestions have been brought up to date and new material on electronic sources and the Internet has been integrated. Ways of Reading continues to be the core resource for students of English Language and Literature.

The new Instructors' section of the website, which accompanies The History of English: An Introduction, contains three elements. Each offers suggestions which are intended to support your teaching. You are, of course, completely free to pick and choose among the material supplied here as best suits your teaching aims and interests.

1. Study Projects are short suggestions (all four on a single page) about possible projects you might instigate to help your students follow the development of one or the other of four aspects of change in English throughout its history and spread. The idea behind this is to help them develop a feeling for the continuing effects of change.
2. Teaching Points are available as a resource for each of the thirteen chapters. The points selected were the ones Gramley used in teaching this book in the second term of the 2011–12 academic year. He found it useful to concentrate on certain points only in order to help the students cope with the — for them — overwhelming amount of new information. The Teaching Points draw largely on material in the respective chapters, repeating some of it and including some maps, tables, and figures from HoE. There is, however, a certain amount of supplementary material. Where this is the case Gramley has been careful to document his sources.
3. Study Questions are also available for each of the chapters. Each of them consists of suggested answers to the study questions given at the ends of the respective chapters. The answers vary considerably in length, and some of them contain supplementary material not to be found in HoE. Where this is the case, the sources Gramley has drawn on are given.

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‘A veritable Madame Tussaud’s of the vulgar language. It is a really epoch-making monumental piece of work, carried out with astonishing industry and learning.’ – New Statesman

This expanded second edition contains a new preface noting slang trends of the last five years, over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia and new terms from the language of social networking, giving readers unprecedented access to the rich world of slang.

Containing over 60,000 entries, the world's most authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work.

Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include:

• unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean
• emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English
• published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print
• hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords
• dating and origin information for each headword
• in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning.

Partridge Slang Online is the first interactive slang dictionary available via the web, giving users new ways to discover the rich and rude world of slang. Combining Eric Partridge’s legacy of academic rigor and research with the latest technologies in search and discoverability, Partridge is ushered into the digital age.

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Discourse in English Language Education introduces students to the major concepts and questions in Discourse Studies and their applications to language education. Each chapter draws on key research to examine critically a particular approach in the field, providing a review of important literature, examples to illustrate the principal issues concerned and an outline of the implications for their application to pedagogy.

Features include:

• coverage of a broad range of approaches in the field, including Systemic Functional Linguistics and Register, Speech Acts, the Cooperative Principle and Politeness, Conversation Analysis, Genre Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
• analysis of a wide range of discourse examples that include casual conversation, newspapers, fiction, radio, classrooms, blogs and real-life learner texts
• a selection of illustrations and tables carefully chosen to enhance students' understanding of different concepts and approaches
• stimulating discussion questions at the end of each chapter, specially designed to foster critical thinking, reflection and engagement with the topics covered.

Engaging, accessible and comprehensive, richly demonstrates how Discourse Studies can inform the teaching of English and other languages, both as a foreign language and in the mother tongue.

It is essential reading for upper undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in Applied Linguistics, TESOL and Language Education.
 

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies, edited by Carmen Millán and Francesca Bartrina, is the latest edition to our Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics series. The Handbook is an indispensable resource for postgraduate students of translation studies.

In Translation in the Digital Age author Michael Cronin offers readers an insight into the role of translation by examing it with regard to the debates around emerging digital technologies and analyses their social, cultural and political consequences, guiding readers through the beginnings of translation's engagement with technology, and through to the key issues that exist today.

Translation Changes Everything is a collection of fourteen essays from leading theorist Lawerence Venuti. Every essay presents case studies that include Venuti’s own translation projects, illuminating the connections between theoretical concepts and verbal choices.