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Examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. This work looks at such themes as: natural selection in language; the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution; multilingualism and language contact; and, language birth and language death.

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Explores the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Focusses on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. This book also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.

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Originally published as the author's doctoral thesis (University of Southampton) under the title Language, discourse and ideology: Academia Espaanola and the standardisation of Spanish. 2008.

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Critically analyses press discourse in which the Real Academia Espaola promotes a global vision of the Spanish language.

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"An edited collection of prominent scholars in the field of language acquisition and development, focusing primarily on syntax and morphosyntax from formalist generative perspective"--

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This volume offers contemporary investigations of the Whorfian idea that language influences how we perceive and understand the world.

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Assesses current assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics.

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Assesses the assumptions about how language is acquired, remembered and retained as impulses in the brain, from the perspective of neurolinguistics, which is based on neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. The author argues that language is behaviour, which has evolved in human genetics through time.

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Examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. This work is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.

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Part of the "Advances in Sociolinguistics" series, this work examines the ways in which the media represents language related issues, and also looks at how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like.

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This volume features work on learning by researchers in various disciplines who share an interest in the systematic study of cognition and in the study of the formal and semantic aspects of language acquisition.

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Examines economic, social and political factors influencing language education, and presents a global perspective on English language acquisition. This book explores English language acquisition and development outside of the largely monolingual environments of North America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Examines economic, social and political factors influencing language education, and presents a global perspective on English language acquisition.

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A meticulously researched, highly entertaining, idiosyncratic look at the how, why and what of bad language around the world.

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For nearly half a century, Professor M A K Halliday has enriched the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.

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This text attempts to define what language policy is, to what it applies, and how various disciplines such as sociolinguistics and the analysis of the political process help in studying language policy and policy-making. It examines language policy in both Britain and France up to 1995.

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