News and Numbers : A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields

Victor Cohn
Paperback - $78.95

News and Numbers gives reporters the information they need to understand, analyse and explain statistics in health science and related areas. It enables the reporter to judge the probable truth of an event; weigh and question claims; and read or judg ...

Chomskys Universal Grammar 3e

Vivan Cook
Hardcover - $177.95

The 3rd edition of "Chomsky's Universal Grammar" introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas.

Updated and revised to include a broader ran ...

Bwell Ency Writing System

Florian Coulmas
Paperback - $105.95

This encyclopedia of writing systems, scripts, and orthographies of the world's major languages provides a fully illustrated description of over 400 writing systems. It provides an account of the study of writing in many different disciplines, from a ...

The Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Florian Coulmas
Paperback - $131.95

In 28 newly-commissioned chapters, distinguished contributors provide an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics. This invaluable work of reference, now available in paperback, identifies the most important issues of sociolinguistics, makes primary s ...

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Alan Davies
Paperback - $111.95

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 original articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of applied linguistics. The handbook is divided in parts that demonstrate the two main approaches to the ...

Grammar of Raising and Control : A Course in Syntactic Argumentation

William D. Davies
Paperback - $92.95

"The Grammar of Raising and Control "surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understan ...

Attitudes Orientations Motivations

Dornyei
Paperback - $86.95

Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. It provides the primary impetus to embark upon learning, and later acts as the driving force to sustain the long and often tedious learning ...

Key Terms

Duranti
Paperback - $94.95

Key Terms in Language and Culture is an exciting new collection of 75 original short essays, written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, covering all the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. T ...

Language Variation as Social Practice : The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High

Penelope Eckert
Hardcover - $193.95

This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.

As the acknowledged leaders in sound change and in the use of the vernacular in industrial society, the adolescent age group constitutes ...

Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World

VIV Edwards
Paperback - $84.95

"Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World: Pedigree of Nations" explores the consequences of English as a global language and multilingualism as a social phenomenon. Written accessibly, it explores the extent of diversity in 'inner circle' Engli ...