(Hardback)
By: Dr Bethan L. Davies
ISBN: 9781441159496
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This title presents a fresh approach to the pragmatic and sociolinguistic study of im/politeness, which explores the concept of 'situatedness'.
(Paperback)
By: Damian J. Rivers
ISBN: 9781474218870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kinga Kozminska
ISBN: 9781350331341
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Kinga Kozminska
ISBN: 9781350331303
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Yancheng Yang
ISBN: 9781350509061
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Penhallurick
ISBN: 9780230205819
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This clear and comprehensive guide provides a detailed critical overview of the study of regional dialect in the English language, giving a complete history of work on dialects from the sixteenth century to the present day, from early dialect dictionaries to modern research in geolinguistics, and looking at English dialects across the world.
(Paperback)
By: Rosalie Maggio
ISBN: 9781573560696
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is an updated and expanded version of Maggio's earlier work. The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage, also covers numerous words and phrases that were not part of our language five years ago.
(Hardback)
By: Richard M. Swiderski
ISBN: 9780897893268
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Whenever a new language is learned, a new culture is also learned. Swiderski provides instructive examples of language learning situations by describing multilingual events using more than twenty of the world's languages.
(Hardback)
By: Dr James Pfrehm
ISBN: 9781472578358
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Professor David Barton
ISBN: 9781441128898
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The studies included in the book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world.
(Hardback)
By: Professor David Barton
ISBN: 9781441108852
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Robert Blackwood
ISBN: 9781350272514
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maida Kosatica
ISBN: 9781350341708
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: George V. Zito
ISBN: 9780275946746
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Zito argues that although meanings change with time, at the end of the 20th century we are witnessing not a change in meanings, but the demise of meaning itself.
(Hardback)
By: Roberta Piazza
ISBN: 9781350053502
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Charlotte Taylor
ISBN: 9781350442870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Martin Conboy
ISBN: 9781847061812
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeenth century to the present day.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Martin Conboy
ISBN: 9781847061805
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeenth century to the present day.
(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Marina Terkourafi
ISBN: 9781441140265
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.
(Hardback)
By: Marina Terkourafi
ISBN: 9780826431608
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.
(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Dr Fiona Mc Laughlin
ISBN: 9781441117854
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Fiona Mc Laughlin
ISBN: 9781847061164
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents a series of geographically diverse case studies that examine various issues involved in the study of urban African languages. This book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities.
(Hardback)
By: Kevin Harvey
ISBN: 9781472583598
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Literary Lifeline offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenon of reading for well-being. The book is a study of the transformative potential of literature.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Abley
ISBN: 9780099484462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of the world.
On his travels Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers and web-savvy teenagers.
