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Adam Noel Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri
Greek-Romance Language Contact in Southern Italy

Greek and Romance dialects in southern Italy have been in intensive contact with one another for centuries, leading to convergence in their grammars in many key respects that are too striking to be dismis…

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Health Discourses

**How can descriptions of illnesses affect how we understand and treat them?**Which language choices do people make when discussing and representing health conditions? What does the way people talk about …

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Free Up Yuhself

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region's dominant gender…

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Aek Phakiti
Language Testing and Assessment

"This book covers crucial knowledge and skill sets for developing language tests and setting assessments. Aimed at students and practitioners of applied linguistics and TESOL, it covers the theoretic…

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The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism

An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwideThe Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism provides an in-depth exploration of…

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The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Now in its second edition, this Handbook is a current overview of Second Language (L2) research, providing state-of-the-art synopses of recent developments in each sub-area of the field, and bringing toge…

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Ed Simon
In Praise of Purple Prose

A playful and irreverent argument for--and practical guide to--writing in a rich and extraordinary styleWhen it comes to literary style, the commonplace wisdom of composition classrooms, newsrooms, and ed…

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Lyle Campbell
The Secret History of Language

What are the causes of language change? Where do words come from? Is modern technology and social media corrupting our language? Language change is just as relevant today as it ever was, yet the secrets o…

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Paul A Malovrh, Nina Moreno
Second Language Identity

Increasing globalization presents both challenges and opportunities to the higher education sector. This pioneering book shows how interaction between the two elds of foreign language pedagogy and second …

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M A K Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Jonathan J Webster
Verbal Art and Verbal Science

Over the course of history, humankind has relied on the power of language to impose regularities on experience and bring "the environment more within our power to control." Professor M.A.K. Hall…

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András Kertész, Csilla Rákosi
Diverging Evidence in Semantics and Pragmatics

In recent years, research on the nature of linguistic evidence has gained significant attention. One key finding is that linguistic inquiry should not rely solely on a single source of evidence such as in…

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Sarah Buschfeld, Claus Weihs
Optimizing Decision Trees for the Analysis of World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Data

This Element introduces PrInDT (Prediction and Interpretation in Decision Trees), a statistical approach for modeling relationships between extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It is b…

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Silke Brandt
Theory of Mind and Language Development

This Elements presents a series of studies investigating the relationship between language, Theory of Mind, and other cognitive skills, across different languages and cultures. The first set of studies fo…

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Alastair Pennycook
Language, Water, Power

This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations …

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Dylan Bumford, Simon Charlow
Effect-Driven Interpretation

Computer programs are often factored into pure components - simple, total functions from inputs to outputs - and components that may have side effects - errors, changes to memory, parallel threads, aborti…

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Dylan Bumford, Simon Charlow
Effect-Driven Interpretation

Computer programs are often factored into pure components - simple, total functions from inputs to outputs - and components that may have side effects - errors, changes to memory, parallel threads, aborti…

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Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Locative Predications in Chadic Languages

This book shows that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. It draws on data from eight languages belonging to three branches of the Chadic language family that…

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Akku&, David Embick, Mohammed A Salih
Case and the Syntax of Argument Indexation

This book draws on data from Sorani Kurdish to present an analysis of argument indexation, the process by which arguments in a clause are coindexed with grammatical markers that bear their features. This …

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The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context

For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function within its social and inte…

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Tim Wharton, Louis De Saussure
Pragmatics and Emotion

It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that 'the head' and 'the heart' are two opposing forces, a view that has led scholars, until now, to explore the mental processes behind cognit…

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