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  • Q & Eh

    Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist

    by Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes, Laurie Bauer, Paul Warren ...
    Fascinating answers to quirky questions about language Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thing called language, and are there rights ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    by Muriel Saville-Troike, Karen Barto ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Providing a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has become the leading introduction to the subject for students of linguistics, psychology and education, and trainee language teachers. Now in its third edition, the textbook offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts, including second language acquisition (SLA) in adults and children, in formal and informal ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Introducing Psycholinguistics

    by Paul Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    How humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them. Students will gain an understanding of the processes and representations involved in ... Read more

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  • The Language of Branding

    Theory, Strategies, and Tactics

    by Dawn Lerman, Robert J. Morais, David Luna ...
    The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics shows marketers how to use language successfully to improve brand value and influence consumer behavior.Luna and Lerman are among only a few researchers who take a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways language influences how consumers act. Together with Morais, an anthropologist engaged in market research, they show how understanding ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice

    by John Baugh ...
    As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often subjected to mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity about the ways that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Acquisition of «be» by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong- and its Pedagogical Implications

    by Mable Chan ...
    The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the acquisition of be by Cantonese second language learners; (b) the question if properties associated with be remain persistently ... Read more

    $164.99 CAD

  • The Tip of the Tongue State

    by Alan S. Brown ...
    Series series Essays in Cognitive Psychology
    This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its fascination for both cognitive and linguistic researchers.After a review of various research procedures used ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy

    Edited by Fred R. Eckman, Jean Mileham, Rita Rutkowski Weber, Diane Highland, Peter W. Lee ...
    A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown by the fact that the two disciplines have established themselves as areas of study not only distinct from each other, but also different from linguistic theory. This was not always the case, at least not in the United States. The anomaly results from ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Recursion: Complexity in Cognition

    Edited by Margaret Speas, Tom Roeper ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on recursion and reveals a host of new theoretical arguments, philosophical perspectives, formal representations and empirical evidence from parsing, acquisition and computer models, highlighting its central role in modern science. Noam Chomsky, whose work introduced recursion to linguistics and cognitive science and other leading researchers in the fields of philosophy, ... Read more

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  • Clinical Psycholinguistics

    by Theodore Shapiro ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme re sponds with surprise when he learns that he has been speaking prose all his life. The apparent discovery, reflected in his comment, provides us with both the virtues and the difficulties in presenting "yet another book," especially one with a somewhat ambitious title as this one. The virtues may be cataloged under cross ... Read more

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  • Children's Language

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    Edited by Carolyn E. Johnson, John H.V. Gilbert ...
    Series series Children's Language Series
    This volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13 countries -- investigations of children learning 15 different languages, in some instances more than one at a time. The scope of this work -- as broad as it is -- only partially represents the research interests and approaches of the more than 350 scholars from 34 countries who contributed papers or posters to the Sixth International ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech

    A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal Study between Chinese and Japanese

    by Aijun Li ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as by the transmission channels used. Through both psycholinguistic and phonetic analysis of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD