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The Literate Mind
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A Study of Its Scope and Limitations
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Wells discusses how literacy affects human cognition from an ecological functionalism viewpoint by using the Turing machine, specifically the universal...
Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language
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An Intercultural Perspective
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Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived "in-between" two...
Teacher Development in Action
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Understanding Language Teachers' Conceptual Change
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Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation,...
Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse
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Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been...
Blending Technologies in Second Language Classrooms
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This book introduces an approach for making principled decisions about the use of technologies specifically in Applied Linguistics. The research is grounded in...
Constructing Identities at Work
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This edited collection presents cutting edge research on the process of identity construction in professional and institutional contexts, from corporate...
Developing Interactional Competence
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A Conversation-Analytic Study of Patient Consultations in Pharmacy
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An unprecedented glimpse into the multidimensional learning processes that take place when novice professionals develop the necessary communication skills for...
Corpora and Language Education
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Corpora and Language Education critically examines key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus on the expanding interdisciplinary...
Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia
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This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts....
Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
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Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the...
BESTSELLERS
Applied Conversation Analysis
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Intervention and Change in Institutional Talk
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Each of us is highly skilled at designing our turns at talk, and meshing them with those of the people around us. Conversation Analysis (CA) is the study of...
Researching Vocabulary
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A Vocabulary Research Manual
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Researching Vocabulary is written for language researchers who want to carry out valid and reliable studies on first and second language vocabulary. The author...
Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things, Second Edition
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An Introduction to Semiotics
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Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a...
Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics
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A Practical Introduction
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Using a reader-friendly, structured approach, Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Introduction presents an easy-to-follow and...
Exploring Semiotic Remediation as Discourse Practice
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This collection brings together a distinctive, multidisciplinary group of scholars (from writing studies, speech and hearing sciences, communication studies,...
Pragmatics
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This accessible and engaging text introduces the field of pragmatics, the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming no prior...
Sociolinguistics
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A Reader
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In the first volume of this kind for years, the editors have assembled a definitive view of the discipline bringing together much original work in...
Analysing Conversation
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An Introduction to Prosody
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Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the...
Children Learning Second Languages
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ELT for children continues to be a big growth area worldwide. This is a comprehensive survey of key concepts specific to language teaching for children with up...
The Discourse of Politics in Action
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Politics as Usual
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An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians: what politicians actually do on "the backstage" in political...
Discourse and Power
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Teun Van Dijk is one of the most influential and significant scholars Critical Discourse analysis. This collection brings together his most important writing,...
Alliteration in Culture
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Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from...
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