Treasure-House of the Language : The Living OED

Charlotte Brewer
Hardcover - $59.95

The legendary "Oxford English Dictionary" today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the "OED" serves as a guardian of the literar ...

Negotiating the New in the French Novel

Teresa Bridgeman
Paperback - $113.95

In "Negotiating the New in the French Novel, "Teresa Bridgeman applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discursive conventions. Focusing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists, ...

On English Homophones

Robert Bridges
Paperback - $20.95

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 - $245.95

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 - $153.95

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 - $66.95

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 - $220.95

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 - $26.95

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 - $76.95

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 - $113.95

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 ...