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  • Linked Noun Groups

    Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'. Crucially, the occurrence pattern of such pairs is dependent on genre, and this book aims to document the structural distribution of some key Linked Noun Groups (LNGs). The author looks at ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how Lexical Priming applies to the use of spoken English as the book provides evidence that Lexical Priming is found in everyday spoken conversations. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web

    Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other. It begins with a brief history of artificial intelligence theories focusing on figures including Alan Turing and M. Ross Quillian and the key concepts of priming, spread ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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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

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  • 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

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  • How Language Works

    How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

    by David Crystal ...
    Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language.In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is so fundamental to everyday life that we take it for granted. But as David Crystal makes clear in this work of unprecedented scope, language is ... Read more

    $10.99 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

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  • Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic

    by Bruce Silver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to notice; concentrating on subtle missteps and errors that can make the difference between good and excellent prose. Each chapter ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 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

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  • Test Your Personality

    Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.These quizzes were designed primarily to enable you to:learn some useful English vocabulary (of the type that is often not taught in a language course)have fun doing something in English that you might equally well have done in your own ... Read more

    $28.49 USD