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Mitigation
Claudia Caffi
Hardcover - $264.95
This fourth volume in the Studies in Pragmatics (SiP) series is a fittingly solid, well-illustrated and theoretical account of Mitigation (as a form of Politeness). The main goal of this book is to present a new integrated pragmatic approach to commu ...
Gayle : The Language of Kinks and Queens
Ken Cage
Paperback - $57.95
This fascinating analysis of the gay language, Gayle, in South Africa, includes a dictionary of words and an historical record of the language, its development, its form, and its various social functions.
Studies in the Syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels, with Appendices on Some Idioms in the Germanic Languages (1918)
Morgan Callaway
Paperback - $44.95
Language Wars and Linguistic Politics
Louis-Jean Calvet
Paperback - $189.95
Non-linguistic conflicts--economic, religious, territorial--are often projected on to language differences, and may be played out in the language policies of governments and other holders of power. Jean-Louis Calvet deals broadly, in a non-technical ...
Towards an Ecology of World Languages
Louis-Jean Calvet
Paperback - $55.95
In this important new book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, argues that what we call 'languages' are in fact abstractions invented by linguists as a convenient tool to label the subject-matter of their science. Lan ...
The Structure of Coordination : Conjunction and Agreement Phenomena in Spanish and Other Languages
Jose Camacho
Paperback - $107.95
This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other gr ...
Verbal Hygiene
Deborah Cameron
Hardcover - $317.95
"Verbal Hygiene" discusses the use and abuse of language and questions what makes it good and bad, or right and wrong. Cameron examines the practices through which people try to both clean up language and regulate its use in attempts to make it funct ...
Researching and Applying Metaphor
Lynne Cameron
Paperback - $66.95
Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognized as central to language and language use. The implications of these findings are only just ...
Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day
Dianna S. Campbell
Paper Textbook - $21.95
Features clear discussions of rules and strategies for good writing, concise explanations with a minimum of grammatical terms, and an abundant variety of exercises.