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  • Talking at Work

    Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse

    Edited by Lucy Pickering, Eric Friginal, Shelley Staples ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring together leading scholars in the field of corpus analysis in workplace discourse and include data from multiple corpora. Employing a range of qualitative and quantitative analytic approaches including ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • The Register-Functional Approach to Grammatical Complexity

    Theoretical Foundation, Descriptive Research Findings, Application

    by Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its further study.The book traces the development of the RF approach from its foundations in two major research strands of linguistics: the study of sociolinguistic variation and the text-linguistic study of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    A Linguistic Introduction

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  • Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar 4th edition

    by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen ...
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  • Child Language Acquisition

    Contrasting Theoretical Approaches

    by Ben Ambridge, Elena V. M. Lieven ...
    Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the core domains of child language acquisition research (phonology, word-learning, inflectional morphology, syntax and binding) and includes a complete introduction to the two major contrasting theoretical approaches ... Read more

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  • Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

    by Jack C. Richards, Richard W. Schmidt ...
    This best-selling dictionary is now in its 4th edition. Specifically written for students of language teaching and applied linguistics, it has become an indispensible resource for those engaged in courses in TEFL, TESOL, applied linguistics and introductory courses in general linguistics.Fully revised, this new edition includes over 350 new entries. Previous definitions have been revised or ... Read more

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  • Learnability and Cognition, new edition

    The Acquisition of Argument Structure

    by Steven Pinker ...
    Series series Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
    A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do ... Read more

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    by Helen Smith Cairns, Eva M. Fernández ...
    Series series Fundamentals of Linguistics
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  • Introducing Functional Grammar

    by Geoff Thompson ...
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    Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    by Peter Gardenfors ...
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  • Grammatical Complexity in Academic English

    Linguistic Change in Writing

    by Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray ...
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    Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that ... Read more

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