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Words On Words - Quotations about Language and Languages by David Crystal
$25.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
A thematically structured dictionary of quotations relating to all aspects of language. Ranging from Wilde to Wordsworth and James Bond to Winnie-the-Pooh, 65 sections bring together the wise, witty and whimsical insights from over the years.
Optimality Theory by Rene Kager; S. R. Anderson (Contribution by); J. Bresnan (Contribution by); B. Comrie (Contribution by); W. Dressler (Contribution by); C. J. Ewen (Contribution by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is optimal if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. ...Show more
Vowels and Consonants by Peter Ladefoged
$16.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants includ ...Show more
Conversation Analysis - An Introduction by Jack Sidnell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Language in Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques ofthis central approach to language and social interaction, alongwith real-life examples and step-by-step explanations,Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to thefield. Introduces the main findings, methods and analytic techniques ...Show more
Pragmatics by Yan Huang
$25.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new ...Show more
A Comparative Germanic Grammar by E. Prokosch
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: William Dwight Whitney Linguistic series | Reading Level: very good
A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
THIS INFORMATION REFERS TO AN OLD EDITION. This exceptionally clear text focuses on internal changes in the English language. It outlines the history of English from pre-Old English times to the present. Not only does it present the traditional morphological descriptions of the various stages of the lan ...Show more
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by and co-constructed for both patients and doctors (p ...Show more
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Everett took his family to convert the Pirahas (pronounced pee-da-HAN), a remote people of the Amazonian jungle whose language no outsider had yet been able to understand. They encountered malaria, snakes, jaguars, spiders, insects, and a plot to kill them as they slept. But Everett gradually gai ...Show more
Novantiqua: Rhetorics as a Contemporary Theory by Paolo Valesio
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Advances in Semiotics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." --Quarterly Journal of SpeechA remarkable book... sure to be of lasting interest... to be reckoned with by all rhetorical theorists." --ChoiceThis is the first contemporary attempt at a holistic theory of rhetoric, well grounded in the ...Show more
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