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"The Discourse Reader" collects in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear [...]

The articles collected in "The Handbook of Discourse Analysis" comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, [...]

John Sinclair is one of the most influential figures in world linguistics, an innovator who revolutionized the study of spoken discourse and pioneered corpus-based research. [...]

David Crystal's "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it [...]

AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, teaching English [...]

'If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood.' Frank McCourt The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, [...]

An Overview of Applied Linguistics (Norbert Schmitt and Marianne Celce-Murcia)

Part 1 Description of Language and Language Use

Grammar (Diane Larsen-Freeman and Jeanette DeCarrico)

Vocabulary (Paul Nation and [...]

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative [...]

This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how [...]