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Postcolonial Translation Theory
Susan Bassnett
Hardcover - $305.95
This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors to examine some crucial connections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. As English becomes an increasingly global language, more people become multilingual and translat ...
Postcolonial Translation Theory
Susan Bassnett
Paperback - $90.95
This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors to examine some crucial connections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. As English becomes an increasingly global language, more people become multilingual and translat ...
Bad Language : Are Some Words Better Than Others?
Edwin Basttistella
Hardcover - $62.95
Is today's language at an all-time low? Are pronunciations like cawfee and chawklit bad English? Is slang like my bad or hook up improper? Is it incorrect to mix English and Spanish, as in Yo quiero Taco Bell? Can you write Who do you trust? rather t ...
Challenges in Natural Language
Madeleine Bates
Paperback - $78.95
Though natural language processing has come far in the past twenty years, the technology has not achieved a major impact on society. Is this because of some fundamental limitation that cannot be overcome? Or because there has not been enough time to ...
The Logic of Markedness
Edwin L. Battistella
Hardcover - $200.95
Theories of language espoused by linguists during much of this century have assumed that there is a hierarchy to the elements of language such that certain constructions, rules, and features are unmarked while others are marked; "play" for example, i ...
Clause Structure and Language Change Oscs
Adrian Battye
Paperback - $200.95
The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in q ...
The Emergence and Development of Svo Patterning in Latin and French : Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Brigitte L. Bauer
Hardcover - $220.95
This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherit ...
English Word-Formation
Laurie Bauer
Paperback - $88.95
Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself. As Dr Bauer points out in his Introduction, many of the questions that scholars are asking now were also being asked in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
Language Myths
Laurie Bauer
Paperback - $21.95
Language is a part of us all and is tightly woven into human experience. Yet, although research into language has increased at a phenomenal rate over the last fifty years, misconceptions abound.
This illuminating and highly readable collection of e ...