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Dimensions of Register Variation : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber
Paperback - $153.95
Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension. In it he gives a linguistic analysis of register ...
Dimensions of Register Variation : A Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Douglas Biber
Hardcover - $245.95
Douglas Biber??'s new book gives a linguistic analysis of register in four widely differing languages: English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali.
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register
Douglas Biber
Hardcover - $275.95
This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phen ...
Understanding Utterances : An Introduction to Pragmatics
Diane Blakemore
Paperback - $108.95
This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the ...
Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws : Understanding the Quebec Question
Alice Bloch
Hardcover - $204.95
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide ...
Chinese Englishes : A Sociolinguistic History
Kingsley Bolton
Paperback - $88.95
Kingsley Bolton uses early word lists, satirical cartoons and data from journals and memoirs to uncover the forgotten history of English in China, from the arrival of the first English-speaking traders in the early seventeenth century to the present. ...
The Matrix of Language : Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology
Donlad Brenneis
Paperback - $98.95
"The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, present a range of"