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  • Systemic Functional Grammar

    A Text-Based Description of English, Spanish and Chinese

    by J.R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz, Pin Wang ...
    Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this book advances SFL by applying it comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. By analysing English alongside two other, typologically very different major world languages, it ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Interpersonal Grammar

    Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory and Description

    Edited by J. R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz, Giacomo Figueredo ...
    This pioneering volume lays out a set of methodological principles to guide the description of interpersonal grammar in different languages. It compares interpersonal systems and structures across a range of world languages, showing how discourse, interpersonal relationships between the speakers, and the purpose of their communication, all play a role in shaping the grammatical structures used in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    An Introduction to the Science of Language

    by Jordan B. Sandoval, Kristin E. Denham ...
    This is an engaging introduction to the study of language for undergraduate or beginning graduate students, aimed especially at those who would like to continue further linguistic study. It introduces students to analytical thinking about language, but goes beyond existing texts to show what it means to think like a scientist about language, through the exploration of data and interactive problem ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies

    Edited by Dr Mira Kim, Professor Jeremy Munday, Dr Zhenhua Wang, Dr Pin Wang ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    The field of translation studies has grown rapidly over recent decades, with critical questions being investigated across the globe. Drawing together this scattered research, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies consolidates important propositions by drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Using the SFL dimensions of stratification, rank, axis and delicacy to show how ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Syntax of Imperatives

    by Asier Alcázar, Mario Saltarelli ...
    Series Book 140 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received diverse analyses in the literature. This cutting-edge study puts forward a new linguistic theory of imperatives, arguing that categories of the speech act, specifically Speaker and Addressee, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Syntax in the Treetops

    by Shigeru Miyagawa ...
    Series series Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
    A proposal that syntax extends to the domain of discourse in making core syntax link to the conversational context.In Syntax in the Treetops, Shigeru Miyagawa proposes that syntax extends into the domain of discourse by making linkages between core syntax and the conversational participants. Miyagawa draws on evidence for this extended syntactic structure from a wide variety of languages, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

    by Michel Launey, Christopher Mackay ...
    Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates

    by Antonio Fábregas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
    Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a Neo ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Spanish Language

    by David A. Pharies ...
    "As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of 'linguistic myths' about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar." — ChoiceSince its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language's Latin roots to its present-day forms, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Study of Language

    by George Yule ...
    This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite-sized sections, clearly explaining the major concepts in linguistics and all the key elements of language. This seventh edition has been revised and updated throughout, with substantial changes to the chapters on ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Catching Fire

    A Translation Diary

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series Untranslated Series
    An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language—what happens when you meet a pun? a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spelling It Out

    How Words Work and How to Teach Them

    by Misty Adoniou ...
    Spelling can be a source of anxiety for school children and working professionals alike. Yet the spelling of words in English is not as random or chaotic as it is often perceived to be; rather, it is a system based on both meaning and a fascinating linguistic history. Misty Adoniou's public articles on the processes of teaching and learning spelling have garnered an overwhelming response from ... Read more

    $25.99 USD