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On English Homophones
Robert Bridges
Paperback - $21.95
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. This author blames 'Southern England'.
Disorderly Discourse : Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality
Charles L. Briggs
Hardcover - $254.95
Involving everything from war to playground disputes, narratives generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict at levels of social organization. Still, despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted on conflict and narrative in a nu ...
Disorderly Discourse : Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality
Charles L. Briggs
Paperback - $159.95
Conflict plays a crucial role in social interactions, and representations of conflict are an important aspect of language. Stories and narratives involving everything from war to playground disputes generate, sustain, mediate, and represent conflict ...
Learning How to Ask : A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research
Charles L. Briggs
Paperback - $69.95
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature b ...
Language Variation in South Asia
William Bright
Hardcover - $229.95
South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, ...
Langue Francaise Terre D'Accueil
Andre Brincourt
Paperback - $28.95
S'est-on jamais interroge sur le nombre d'ecrivains qui, venus d'ailleurs, habitent notre langue?
Il etait temps de porter un regard nouveau sur une Francophonie qui se revigore dans l'encre et le sang meles. Ne gagne-t-elle pas ici un royame, lor ...
Lexicalization and Language Change
Laurel J. Brinton
Paperback - $80.95
Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceived in a variety of ways. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various ideas that have been presented. In light of contemporary work on grammaticaliz ...
Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon
Ted Briscoe
Paperback - $117.95
Inheritance has been used in AI knowledge representation for many years. Until recently, however, it had not been much exploited in linguistic representation. This collection describes how the lexicon may be structured using inheritance. The papers a ...
Linguistic Evolution Through Language Acquisition
Ted Briscoe
Hardcover - $233.95
This is a new and groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis that we can not only address the language f ...
