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Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Linguistic Meaning, Truth Conditions and Relevance The Case of Concessives Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Corinne Iten Palgrave Macmillan Many linguists and philosophers of language explain linguistic meaning in terms of truth conditions. This book focuses on the meanings of expressions that...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Language, Nation and Power An Introduction Robert McColl Millar Palgrave Macmillan Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is) used to construct national or ethnic identity....

Trade Paperback : $42.00 Buy	Bilingualism: A Social Approach Palgrave Advances Monica Heller Palgrave Macmillan The contributors to this volume provide a critical examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Multilingual Identities in a Global City London Stories Language and Globalization David Block Palgrave Macmillan This book begins with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities. It then turns to four...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Language, Thought and Reference Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition George Powell Palgrave Macmillan How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping Richard Trim Palgrave Macmillan This book investigates the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	The Sociology of African American Language A Language Planning Perspective Charles DeBose Palgrave Macmillan The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that includes its structure, history,...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	English - One Tongue, Many Voices Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech Palgrave Macmillan This readable textbook tells the fascinating story of the English language in three ways. It begins by tracing the history of the language from its obscure...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe Evidence from the Euromosaic Project Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities Glyn Williams Palgrave Macmillan Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Children's Voices Talk, Knowledge and Identity Janet Maybin Palgrave Macmillan A linguistic ethnographic account of 10- to 12-year-olds' use of informal language practices to construct knowledge and identity.

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Intercultural Journeys From Study to Residence Abroad Language and Globalization Janes Jackson Palgrave Macmillan Focusing on the actual experiences of L2 students who travelled from their homes to foreign lands as part of a faculty-led, short-term SA program, the author...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	Pragmatics Palgrave Modern Linguistics Siobhan Chapman Palgrave Macmillan This accessible and engaging text introduces the field of pragmatics, the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming no prior...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	English in Japan in the Era of Globalization Edited by Philip Seargeant Palgrave Macmillan Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the nature,...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	English and Ethnicity Signs of Race Edited by Janina Brutt-Griffler and Catherine Evans Davies Palgrave Macmillan This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Spanish Pragmatics Rosina Márquez Reiter and Maria Elena Placencia Palgrave Macmillan This is the first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish. The authors discuss key theories within the Anglo-American tradition of pragmatics,...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Writing the War on Terrorism Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism New Approaches to Conflict Analysis Richard Jackson Manchester University Press This book examines the language of the war on terrorism and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Vague Language Explored Edited by Joan Cutting Palgrave Macmillan The ability to use vague language ("bags of time", "doing stuff", "sort of thing", "and all that") is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Paul Grice Philosopher and Linguist Siobhan Chapman Palgrave Macmillan

Trade Paperback : $29.50 Buy	Beginning Linguistics Laurie Bauer Palgrave Macmillan This introduction to linguistics for the absolute beginner focuses on the core topics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics....

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