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"Edited collection with potential for textbook use giving an overview of the relatively new field of prosody, including all (often conflicting) perspectives"--

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How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.

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This work contains six titles from the "Reading the Past" series and provides an introduction to the systems of writing used in the Ancient World. Illustrated throughout, it covers cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the early alphabet, linear B and related scripts, Greek inscriptions and Etruscan.

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This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA.

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The full story of the race to decipher the world's greatest puzzle.

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Focusing on the contemporary Scottish culture, this book is a useful reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and it acted as a catalyst for radical changes in attitude towards the language.

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This book covers key topics in second language acquisition and bilingualism, examining different theoretical approaches and introducing key theories in the field. Real studies are examined in areas such as acquisition of morphology, syntax and phonology, and practice questions give students a chance to think critically about crucial areas.

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"Highly accessible and intelligently composed textbook introduction to the field of semantics with suggested readings"--

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A new cover edition of this classic guide to British Sign Language, with over 400 illustrations of common signs.

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Shares more than one thousand hand gestures from the American sign language representing words dealing with things, people, foods, adjectives and adverbs, numbers, time, places, health, recreation, religion, and emotions.

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Examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. Ranging from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics, this work surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. It is suitable for sociolinguistics.

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Women as slang creators and users is perhaps the last, and very important, piece of the slang jigsaw. Women in slang is a pretty sorry story, but women and slang is an undiscovered territory, which this book explores, from fishwives and flappers to Mumsnet.

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The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.

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Complete with over 6000 entries, this marvelous linguistic guide explains why the emergence of Spanglish is a viable and important marker of the US Latino's influence on American culture.

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The narrative spell cast over politics and society

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"A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial"--

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"A syntactic analysis of and solution to the semantic problem: how can speakers convey the same meaning using different speech acts"--

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A transatlantic survival guide, that examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language. It shows why Americans give - and take - so many bloody compliments and never, ever say 'shall' (well hardly ever), as well as what the British really mean when they say 'proper'.

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