Langages & Disciplines / Linguistique

The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback

de Fiona Farr

In this book, Farr examines the spoken and written language of post-observation teaching-practice feedback on teacher education programs. To do so, she draws upon theories from discourse analysis, conversation...

How Language Works

de David Crystal

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language.

In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery,...

How to Teach English Language Learners: Effective Strategies from Outstanding Educators, Grades K-6

de Diane Haager

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). How to Teach English Language Learners draws on two wide-ranging teacher quality...

Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

de Joseph Sung-Yul Park & Lionel Wee

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted...

Advances in the Study of Behavior: Stress and Behavior

de Peter J.B. Slater, Anders Pape Møller & Milinski Manfred

Advances in the Study of Behavior continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionarybiology,...

Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance

de M. Eleanor Nevins

This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores...

Historical Linguistics: An Introduction

de Winfred P. Lehmann

Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods. Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading...

A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus

de Ivy Livingston

As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.

True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

de Christine Gunlogson

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:

1) It's raining?

2) It's raining.

The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the...

Phonetics & Phonology of Gutturals

de Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in...

Exploring English Grammar: From Formal to Functional

de Caroline Coffin, Jim Donohue & Sarah North

This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG...

African-American English: Structure, History and Use

de Guy Bailey, John Baugh & Salikoko S. Mufwene

African-American English: Structure, History and Use provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English. The main linguistic features are covered, in particular the grammar,...

Speech Sounds

de Patricia Ashby

Speech Sounds:

* helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician

* investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds

* uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept...

Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis

de Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard & Malcolm Coulthard

Text and Practices provides an essential introduction to the theory and practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. Using insights from this challenging new method of linguiistic analysis, the contributors to this...

History of the German Language Through Texts

de Thomas Gloning & Christopher Young

A History of the German Language Through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day.

Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German...

The Language of Conversation

de Francesca Pridham

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis of conversation. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced...

The Language of Work

de Almut Koester

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation...

Interpreting Texts

de Kim Ballard

Routledge A Level English Guides equip AS and A2 Level students with the skills they need to explore, evaluate and enjoy English. Books in the series are built around the various skills specified in the assessment...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Historical Linguistics

de Silvia Luraghi

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in...

Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology

de Michael Thomas

This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning. TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and...