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  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    par Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

    Implications for Learnability

    Modifié par Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown ...
    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized.The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and com ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two)

    par Suzanne Collins ...
    Collections Livre 2 - The Hunger Games
    The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Banned List

    par John Rentoul ...
    A manifesto for clear writing and an indictment of the damage done to the English language by the use of jargonJohn Rentoul examines how poor writing and a reliance on jargon have damaged our ability to communicate with each other and makes the case for the use of clear English. He addresses the verbification of nouns, the use of waffle to pad out a simple statement, and the importing of business ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Articulate While Black

    Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    par H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman ...
    Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight." In Articulate While ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

    Modifié par Edith L. Bavin ...
    Collections series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    par Florian Coulmas ...
    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

    Modifié par Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten ...
    Collections series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition? What are the properties of interlanguage systems? This comprehensive 31-chapter handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). Its multi-perspective synopsis on recent ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Language Attrition

    par Monika S. Schmid ...
    Collections series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    'Language attrition' describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result of declining use by speakers who have changed their linguistic environment and language habits. In such a situation there may, for example, be simplification in the tense system or in certain properties of subordinate clauses; some vocabulary items might fall into disuse and phonetic ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Neurobiology of Language

    Modifié par Gregory Hickok, Steven L. Small ...
    Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward integration of neurobiological approaches with the more established understanding of language within cognitive psychology, computer science, and linguistics. This volume serves as the definitive reference on the ... En savoir plus

    $199.99 CAD

  • Short Cuts

    A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

    par Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, Rob Flynn ...
    Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers a well-researched and vibrantly written account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD