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Hardcover. An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials of functionalism. Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics. Num Pages: 304 pages, numerous diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 191 x 22. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845531454
- ISBN
- 9781845531454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.03
€ 145.03
Paperback. This text examines the meaning of the word "performance" in the 21st century. The author asserts that there is a relationship between cultural, organizational and technological performance and demonstrates that all three operate together to create powerful and contradictory pressures. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; CFG; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415247696
- ISBN
- 9780415247696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.28
€ 47.28
Hardback. Adopting a rigorous theoretical approach to the study of language policy and national identity, both generally and with specific application to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa, this volume also includes an entire chapter devoted to Afrikaans. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402088902
- ISBN
- 9781402088902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.48
€ 126.48
Paperback. Adopting a rigorous theoretical approach to the study of language policy and national identity, both generally and with specific application to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa, this volume also includes an entire chapter devoted to Afrikaans. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048180189
- ISBN
- 9789048180189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 154.08
€ 154.08
Paperback. A compendium of more than 7,000 Latin words, expressions, phrases, and sayings taken from the world of art, music, law, philosophy, theology, medicine and the theatre, as well as witty remarks and sage advice from ancient writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, and more. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 46. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415777674
- ISBN
- 9780415777674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.91
€ 27.91
Paperback. Features responses to the philosophers of language such as Sellars, Quine, Dummett, Putnam, Chomsky, and Ziff on issues of major significance and no little controversy. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 323
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872200920
- ISBN
- 9780872200920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.40
€ 23.99
€ 18.40
Paperback. Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486243
- ISBN
- 9781349486243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349516308
- ISBN
- 9781349516308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; GTC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403946898
- ISBN
- 9781403946898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.33
€ 133.33
Paperback. This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; GTC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019812
- ISBN
- 9780230019812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 111.31
€ 111.31
Hardback. This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 707.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251649
- ISBN
- 9780230251649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.23
€ 124.23
Paperback. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; ELV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 254 x 17. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Special ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804846387
- ISBN
- 9780804846387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Hardcover. An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives. Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CJA; EBA; KJP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396. A Multi-perspectived Analysis. Series: Palgrave Studies in Professional and Organizational Discourse. 232 pages, 1 tables, 4 figures. An examination of how the commercialization of professional practice is implicated in its organizational discourses. Drawing on a study of ELT colleges, the book explores how teaching practices are permeated and challenged by a 'discourse of commercialization' through which market priorities become normative in teachers' professional lives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: CFG; CJA; EBA; KJP. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 19. Weight: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579118
- ISBN
- 9780230579118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Paperback. Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415253826
- ISBN
- 9780415253826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.24
€ 18.24
Hardback. This book is designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of psychiatric disorders. Series: Equinox Textbooks & Surveys in Linguistics. Num Pages: 352 pages, tables. BIC Classification: CFB; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904768128
- ISBN
- 9781904768128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.86
€ 75.86
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Critical Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911106500
- ISBN
- 9781911106500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.69
€ 31.99
€ 29.69
Paperback. Language and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological evolution of our emotional repertoire and implications for current social behaviour and argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 line diagrams 1 half-tone 8 tables. BIC Classification: CFA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737203
- ISBN
- 9780804737203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Hardback. The Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora introduces methods of analyzing phonetically-labelled speech corpora, with the goal of testing hypotheses that often arise in experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology. Each chapter has an extensive set of exercises, with answers to reinforce the techniques introduced. Num Pages: 424 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141697
- ISBN
- 9781405141697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.62
€ 139.62
Paperback. Studies of variation of language have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This work offers a critique of sociolinguistic, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a number of serious problems, foremost among them a mis-conception of the nature of sociolinguistics itself. Editor(s): Hasan, Ruqaiya. Series: Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan S. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Pap/Cdr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904768364
- ISBN
- 9781904768364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.78
€ 70.78
Hardcover. Editor(s): Webster, Jonathan J (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong). Series: Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: CBG; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904768418
- ISBN
- 9781904768418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.83
€ 130.83
Paperback. Focuses on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining, and changing human relationships. Editor(s): Webster, Jonathan. Series: Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan S. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904768401
- ISBN
- 9781904768401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.83
€ 57.83
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403914873
- ISBN
- 9781403914873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.81
€ 122.81
hardcover. Using thousands of examples, the book identifies the genesis and evolution in African name formation and meaning. Each entry discusses the origins of the name, its meaning, and the wide cultural and social connotations of its use. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1H; CFF; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810836433
- ISBN
- 9780810836433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.73
€ 180.73
Hardcover. Theory in reader-response and stylistics traditions supports L2 work with literature as it is valued by students and helps develop communicative and critical language skills. The author uses insights from empirical research to evaluate current teaching practices against this background, highlighting readers' responses to metaphor as a test case. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; CJA; EBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506954
- ISBN
- 9780230506954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81