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  • African-American English

    Structure, History, and Use

    Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey, John Baugh ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English.The editors have played key roles in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English

    by Guy Bailey, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Juan Salinas ...
    Series series Elements in World Englishes
    This Element uses data from the Springville Project to explore how the functions of the inherited forms invariant be (from English sources) and zero (from creolization) have transformed during the twentieth century. Originally just alternative present tense copula/auxiliary forms, both features developed into aspectual markers – invariant be to mark durativity/habituality and zero to mark ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • African-American English

    Structure, History and Use

    Edited by Guy Bailey, John Baugh, Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford ...
    African-American English: Structure, History and Use provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English. The main linguistic features are covered, in particular the grammar, phonology and lexicon. Further chapters explore the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English.The editors are the leading experts in the field and ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • Politeness

    Some Universals in Language Usage

    by Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Prism of Grammar

    How Child Language Illuminates Humanism

    by Tom Roeper ...
    Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar—and reveal the innate structures of the mind.Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of information to different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Linguistics of Speech

    by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr ...
    This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language features, the importance of regional and social proximity to shared linguistic production, and differential frequency as a key factor in linguistic ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Handbook of English Linguistics

    Edited by Bas Aarts, April McMahon, Lars Hinrichs ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Second edition of this popular Handbook bringing together stimulating discussions of core English linguistics topics in a single, authoritative volume—includes numerous new and thoroughly updated chaptersThe second edition of the popular Handbook of English Linguisticsbrings together stimulating discussions of the core topics in English linguistics in a single, authoritative volume. Written by an ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Intuition: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Jonathan Ichikawa, Ernest Sosa ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • American English, Enhanced Edition

    Dialects and Variation

    by Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling ...
    Series series Language in Society
    The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the textFeatures brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Variationist Sociolinguistics

    Change, Observation, Interpretation

    by Sali A. Tagliamonte ...
    Series Book 39 - Language in Society
    Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language.Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguisticsAddresses all aspects of ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Memory: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Sven Bernecker ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $78.79 USD