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(Paperback)
By: Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9780006546818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 21st April 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary genres.
(Paperback)
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780008131418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First ever critical study of Tolkiens little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones.
(Hardback, 3rd edition)
By: Ilse Depraetere
ISBN: 9781350451193
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Now in its third edition, this innovative textbook on English grammar uses linguistic theory and techniques to explain key concepts.
(Paperback)
By: Jean Aitchison
ISBN: 9781444105964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A comprehensive text on linguistics which includes sections on speech disorders, politeness, the language of advertising and phonetics.
(Paperback)
By: Ronald Lewis
ISBN: 9781667803234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maria Balaska
ISBN: 9781350302938
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Roberts
ISBN: 9780262529808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language.
(Paperback)
By: John Humphrys
ISBN: 9780340923764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Following his bestselling Lost for Words, the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden attitudes that lie behind so many of our current phrases and expressions.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Britta Schneider
ISBN: 9781350065802
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Britta Schneider
ISBN: 9781350418387
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr. Rani Rubdy
ISBN: 9781350065840
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr. Rani Rubdy
ISBN: 9781350418400
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Yasemin Bayyurt
ISBN: 9781350065888
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Yasemin Bayyurt
ISBN: 9781350418394
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Mario Saraceni
ISBN: 9781350418509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Mario Saraceni
ISBN: 9781350072022
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The go-to resource for contemporary scholarship on English in the World and global Englishes.
By: Paul Redfern
ISBN: 9780340991329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Get Started in British Sign Language is the ideal self-access course to teach BSL to hearing learners.
(Paperback)
By: Gordon T Hawker
ISBN: 9780550103468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: John Murray Press
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(Hardback, 3rd edition)
By: Simon Horobin
ISBN: 9781350473799
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.
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By: Professor Emeritus Paul Bouissac
ISBN: 9781472569479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Braj Kachru
ISBN: 9781472539182
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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These Collected Works encompasses the output of Professor Braj Kachru, one of the pioneers of world Englishes as a concept.
(Hardback)
By: Jonathan J. Webster
ISBN: 9781441107596
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Hadas Kotek
ISBN: 9780262536547
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement.
(Paperback)
By: N. J. Enfield
ISBN: 9780262544863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Two senior scholars explain what language does to human beings, especially how it affects our intersubjective competence"--
