Language & Linguistics Paperbacks

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21. 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
22. Essentials of English Grammar

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1933....

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
23. Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

    Edited by Jonathan Owens, Alaa Elgibali

    Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

    This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
24. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

    Phraseology and Evaluative Language

    By Susan Hunston

    Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

    This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
25. Language

    Its Nature and Development

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1922....

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
26. International Language

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1929....

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
27. Finnish

    By Merja Karalainen, Helena Sulkala

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and detailed linguistic analysis....

    Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
28. Figurative Language Comprehension

    Social and Cultural Influences

    Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

    Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
29. Stories and Social Media

    Identities and Interaction

    By Ruth E. Page

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

    This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
30. The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

    Edited by Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson

    Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

    The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics provides a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in Forensic Linguistics. Forensic Linguistics is the study of language and the law, covering topics from legal language and courtroom discourse to...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge