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“derek davy”

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  • Investigating English Style

    by David Crystal, Derek Davy ...
    A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in universities where English is taught as a foreign ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Linguistics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by David Hornsby ...
    Written by David Hornsby, who is a current Linguistics lecturer and researcher at theUniversity of Kent, Linguistics - The Essentials is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added value features like summaries of key books, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Aitchison's Linguistics

    A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics

    by Jean Aitchison ...
    This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?' It outlines the scope of linguistics, explaining basic concepts and essential terminology with examples drawn mainly from English. Sound patterning, syntax and meaning - the inner core of linguistics - are discussed simply and ... Read more

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  • Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar 4th edition

    by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen ...
    Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.Updates to the new edition include:Recent uses of systemic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts

    by R.L. Trask ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include:terms used in grammatical analysisbranches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguisticsapproaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguisticslinguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • What is Morphology?

    by Mark Aronoff, Kirsten Fudeman ...
    Series Book 8 - Fundamentals of Linguistics
    What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and computational methods, and new teaching material.Introduces the fundamental aspects of morphology to students with minimal background in linguisticsIncludes additional ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Cohesion in English

    by M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan ...
    Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Linguistics

    Edited by Anne E. Baker, Kees Hengeveld ...
    Series Book 26 - Introducing Linguistics
    Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics.A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languagesExplores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies

    by Michael Pearce ...
    Series series Routledge Dictionaries
    Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.From abbreviation to zero-article, via fricative and slang, the Dictionary contains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries covering:the core ... Read more

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  • Introducing Functional Grammar

    by Geoff Thompson ...
    Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides:An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar - functional and formal ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Linguistics of British Sign Language

    An Introduction

    by Rachel Sutton-Spence, Bencie Woll ...
    This is the first detailed explanation of the way British Sign Language works and is the product of many years' experience of research and teaching sign linguistics to deaf and hearing people. It assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics or sign language, and is not structured around traditional headings such as phonology, morphology and syntax. Instead it is set out in such a way as to help ... Read more

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  • LOT 2 : The Language of Thought Revisited

    The Language of Thought Revisited

    by Jerry A. Fodor ...
    Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the representational theory of mind which Fodor has established as a key ... Read more

    $30.59 USD