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  • How to Speak Brit

    The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases

    The quintessential A to Z guide to British English—perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrierOscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde. After all, even fluent English speakers can be at sixes and sevens when told to pick up the "dog ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    par R. L. Trask ...
    Collections Livre 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • That's Not English

    Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us

    par Erin Moore ...
    An expat’s witty and insightful exploration of English and American cultural differences through the lens of language that will leave readers gobsmackedIn That’s Not English, the seemingly superficial differences between British and American English open the door to a deeper exploration of a historic and fascinating cultural divide. In each of the thirty chapters, Erin Moore explains a different ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Do You Speak American?

    Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Understanding Politeness

    Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Sex in Language

    Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet forums

    Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation and offence. These two ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    par Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Modifié par Ruth Page ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • An Introduction to Middle English

    par E.E. Wardale ...
    First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period. It offers an in-depth study of the growth of vocabulary through literature and social interaction, bringing out the fact that it is chiefly words that foreign influence has affected — leaving sentence structure almost unaltered. Isolative and combinative ... En savoir plus

    $79.69 CAD

  • Gender, Power and Political Speech

    Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election

    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender ... En savoir plus

    $83.29 CAD

  • Language and Superdiversity

    Indonesians Knowledging at Home and Abroad

    par Zane Goebel ...
    Collections series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Scholars of language ideology have encouraged us to reflect on and explore where social categories come from, how they have been reproduced, and whether and to what extent they are relevant to everyday interactional practices. Taking up on these issues, this book focuses on how ethnicity has been semiotically constructed, valued, and reproduced in Indonesia since Dutch colonial times, and how this ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Discourse Analysis as Social Critique

    Discursive and Non-Discursive Realities in Critical Social Research

    par Benno Herzog ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents post-Marxist theoretical approaches towards social critique and offers discourse analytical tools for critical research. How is a normative critique possible? The author, working at the crossroads of sociological discourse analysis and social philosophy, answers this question and others to show how empirical discourse research can be used to develop normative critique of ... En savoir plus

    $34.59 CAD