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  • Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics

    Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment

    Edited by Erik Castello, Katherine Ackerley, Francesca Coccetta ...
    Series Book 190 - Linguistic Insights
    This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with various L1 backgrounds and to subsequently apply the findings to language teaching and assessment. It is made up of 18 chapters selected from papers presented at the international conference «Compiling and Using Learner Corpora», held in May 2013 at ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Sharing Perspectives on English-Medium Instruction

    Edited by Katherine Ackerley, Marta Guarda, Francesca Helm ...
    Series Book 222 - Linguistic Insights
    English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction in European higher education not only in northern countries, but also in the European ‘south’. This volume is fruit of a project which was carried out in a public university based in the north-east of Italy with the aim of delivering professional development for university lecturers engaged in EMI. It begins with an overview of the European ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Howdunit Book of Police Procedure and Investigation

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    by Lee Lofland ...
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    Not everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. Police Procedure & Investigation helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of law enforcement.With a career in law enforcement that spanned nearly two decades, author Lee Lofland is a nationally acclaimed expert on police procedures and crime scene investigations who consults ... Read more

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  • English as a Local Language

    Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

    by Christina Higgins ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • New Hart's Rules

    The Oxford Style Guide

    Edited by Oxford University Press ...
    For over a hundred years, Hart's Rules has been the authority on style, helping writers and editors prepare copy for publication. The latest edition of this guide has been updated for the twenty-first century using the resources of Oxford Languages and with the advice of publishing experts. Twenty-one chapters give information on all aspects of writing and of preparing copy for publication, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Politicians and Rhetoric

    The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

    by J. Charteris-Black ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Esperanto and Its Rivals

    The Struggle for an International Language

    by Roberto Garvía, Roberto Garvia ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Grammar 101

    From Split Infinitives to Dangling Participles, an Essential Guide to Understanding Grammar

    by Kathleen Sears ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    Learn the rules of the English language with this easy and engaging style guide.Grammar is complicated. But many textbooks and style guides are often so long and tedious that even English teachers use them as a classroom doorstop.Grammar 101 is a fun, comprehensive guide focusing on the essentials of grammar. With simple explanations and entertaining examples, you can learn everything you need to ... Read more

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  • The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation

    Edited by Tanya Stivers, Lorenza Mondada, Jakob Steensig ...
    Series Book 29 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped by those we interact with and governed by social norms - we monitor one another for whether we are fulfilling our rights and responsibilities with respect to knowledge, and for who has relatively more rights to assert knowledge over some ... Read more

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  • Language, Text and Context

    Essays in stylistics

    Edited by Michael Toolan ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from ... Read more

    $54.99 USD