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Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of ……続きを見る

Whether you've just felt the spark of inspiration of a new story idea, or you're putting your finished screenplay in front of producers, managers, and agents… You need a logline. A logline is one si……続きを見る

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speaker……続きを見る

Le spectacle apparaît comme une notion centrale dans l’œuvre et la vie de Rousseau. Sa réflexion critique sur les spectacles procède, en effet, d’une problématique à la fois intellectuelle et existe……続きを見る

The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional v……続きを見る

認識台灣原住民族各族群的語言 了解印度洋、太平洋國家語言狀況 送給南島語言學界的珍貴禮物 白樂思（Robert Blust）教授是國際知名南島語言學權威學者，《南島語言》專書是近年來南島語言學極為重要的論著。白樂……続きを見る

Why is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent or refined, whereas others are deemed uned……続きを見る

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposing no prior knowledge of Latin or linguistics, stud……続きを見る

Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transfo……続きを見る

Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its prima……続きを見る

Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive t……続きを見る

We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled around by language far more than we realize, yet are se……続きを見る

The wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, by the bestselling author of The Name of the Roseーnow published in English for the first time. Learn the art of the thesis from a giant……続きを見る

Authors, what if one sentence is all it takes to grab a reader's interest? Would you want to know the secret? Of course, every author desires to sell more books. That's the power of a hook. And, it ……続きを見る

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally sta……続きを見る

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'm……続きを見る

Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program - the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the bas……続きを見る

This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding double CD. - You can purchase the book and double CD as a pack (ISBN: 9781444107111) - The double CD is also sold separ……続きを見る

The second book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon offers both aspiring and established authors the fundamentals of writing and selling a great novel ……続きを見る

You want to write a play but you have no idea how to start. This book will help you to enter the exciting world of scriptwriting step by step. What makes a good dramatic story? How do you get inspir……続きを見る

Many vocabulary programs are focused on preparing students for a test from week to week, but Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots teaches skills that they can use for a lifetime. Students learn the……続きを見る

This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in……続きを見る

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into ……続きを見る

The book is designed as an introduction to the scientific study of speech. No prior knowledge of phonetics is assumed. As far as mathematical knowlege is concerned, all that is assumed is a knowledg……続きを見る

"No writer will want to be without this book." -Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and other books in The Earth's Children series. Writing is your passion. Making a living w……続きを見る

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume. In spite of the many ……続きを見る

How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought? This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology……続きを見る

The essential guide or anyone navigating the often overwhelming world of email. Sendーthe classic guide to email for office and homeーhas become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, ……続きを見る

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts. 続きを見る

How Texts Work: explores the ways in which we categorize texts reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts analyzes a wide variety of texts from a range of genre……続きを見る