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  • Chinese

    by Jerry Norman ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brings to its study an ... Read more

    $75.49 USD

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  • Slang

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Medical Writing in Early Modern English

    Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Semantics

    A Coursebook

    by James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith ...
    This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples, followed by stimulating practice exercises to complete in the book. Feedback and comment sections follow each exercise to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in semantics is assumed, as students begin by ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

    Current Concepts, Methods, and Findings

    by Dan Dediu ...
    During the last few decades we have discovered enormous amounts about our genomes, their evolution and, importantly for linguists and language scientists, the genetic foundations of language and speech. Accessible and readable, this introduction is designed specifically for students and researchers working in language and linguistics. It carefully focuses on the most relevant concepts, methods and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders

    Edited by Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson ...
    This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy.Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech

    by Alan Reed Libert ...
    The classification of words in terms of parts of speech is frequently problematic. This book examines the classification of conjunctions and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done from the 19th century to the present on a wide range of languages, including English, German, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Welsh, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Ute, and Abun. Most chapters treat conjunctions ... Read more

    $51.79 USD

  • Discursive Approaches to Language Policy

    Edited by Elisabeth Barakos, Johann W. Unger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and planning and discourse studies. The diverse research contexts range from education in Paraguay and Luxembourg via businesses in Wales ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Family Language Policy

    Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home

    by C. Smith-Christmas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • European Francophonie

    The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

    Edited by Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent, Derek Offord ...
    Series Book 1 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into ... Read more

    $111.29 USD

  • The Afroasiatic Languages

    Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their typological diversity in the areas of phonology (some have tone; others do not), morphology (some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Languages of Native America

    Historical and Comparative Assessment

    Edited by Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun ...
    These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows:Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian"Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian"Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan ... Read more

    $80.99 USD