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  • Amish Broken

    by Gillian Brown ...
    Lina is looking for an escape. After being stood up at the altar, she wants to get as far away from the world as she can...someplace simply and quiet. Her car becomes stranded on an isolated road and she's assisted by a handsome Amish man from the nearby community. What she finds out is that both he and his town may hold the answers she's always wanted. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Tell Me Your Name

    by Gillian Brown ...
    Jane and Brent meet each other through an on-line dating site...They both have high pressure jobs and want affairs for a needed release...They each use fake names and meet every Wednesday...But soon Jane realizes that Brent has found out her real identity...he has broken the rules of their arrangement and she breaks off the relationship. After short period of time apart, however, she realizes that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nine Lives of Heather Blake

    by Gillian Brown ...
    Young women are vanishing and turning up dead weeks later. A serial killer is on the loose and a damn good one...he doesn't leave a clue behind...Heather has solved a lot of crimes but has never encountered anything like this. Her own dark past is brought to light as well as her own curse. She has enlisted the aid of a guardian angel throughout her career and now believes that he may know a lot ... Read more

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  • Discourse Analysis

    by Gillian Brown, George Yule ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Questions of Intonation

    by Gillian Brown, Joanne Kenworthy, Karen Currie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
    First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud. The book suggests alternative ways of examining the subject and primarily uses data derived from Edinburgh speech, which is explicitly compared with descriptions of standard southern English.The book critically ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Listening to Spoken English

    by Gillian Brown ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    For those who are familiar with the first edition, it will be convenient to have some indication of where the main changes lie. Chapter one has been largely rewritten to give an outline of current approaches to a model of comprehension of spoken language. Chapter two has a new initial section but otherwise remains as it was. Chapter three incorporates a new section on "pause" and how this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    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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  • Teaching American English Pronunciation

    by Susan Ehrlich, Avery ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    As an ESL teacher, have you looked at the phonetics textbooks on the market and decided that they don't directly address your needs? Unlike pronunciation books aimed at students of linguistics or at learners of English, Teaching American English Pronunciation has been written specifically for ESL teachers. It doesn't only give academic descriptions, but also helps you to improve your students' ... Read more

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  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... 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

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  • Meaning and Relevance

    by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber ...
    When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • Making Sense of Narrative Text

    Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

    by Michael Toolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD