This book is about language that is designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Ciphers and codes conceal messages and protect secrets. Symbol and magic hide meanings to delight or imperil. Lang……続きを見る
著者:Otto Jespersen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年05月24日
This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
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An easy-to-follow guide for all of your grammar needs.
With clear text, appealing cartoons, and a focus on common grammatical errors and how to correct them, this little volume is a real gem that sh……続きを見る
著者:Emily E. Scida
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年08月01日
This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Roman……続きを見る
Spanish: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to the most important aspects of Spanish.
It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language that combines tr……続きを見る
著者:Paul Baker
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinera……続きを見る
Discourses in Place is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate. Written by leaders in the field, this text argues that we can only interpret the meaning ……続きを見る
This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was ……続きを見る
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of active phonolo……続きを見る
From a master teacher and writer, a fully revised and updated edition of the results-oriented approach to legal writing that is clear, that persuadesーand that WINS.
More than almost any profession,……続きを見る
The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differ……続きを見る
Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around……続きを見る
著者:Gunther Kress
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年08月19日
Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children……続きを見る
著者:Eric Partridge
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年05月23日
This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety o……続きを見る
著者:Otto Jespersen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年05月24日
This book was first published in 1947, Mankind, Nation and Individual is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
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This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely acknowledged that the comprehension of science and tech……続きを見る
著者:Sondra Abel
出版社: Prestwick House, Inc.
発売日: 2010年10月05日
Blow Away Standardized Reading Comprehension Exams Practice selections and activities modeled on the CAT6, TAKS, WASL, ITBS, FCAT, and More. With so many standardized tests focusing on improving rea……続きを見る
First published in 1986. This comprehensive guide to written and spoken English offers details of usage in all countries where English used. The writer's, speaker's and reader's handy companion; the……続きを見る
The book aims to display uncommon expressions that look common but are uncommon in usage and meaning. The uncommon expressions are interwoven within the conversations fitted into suitable situations……続きを見る
Political Correctness
“Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single col……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 with your w……続きを見る
First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this is not just a phenomenon left ove……続きを見る
Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions wit……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
Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information. Concepts are grounded in real-world examp……続きを見る
The Arabic-English Thematic Lexicon is an invaluable resource for all learners of Arabic.
It contains some 8,000 entries, arranged into themes, including flora and fauna, food and drink, the human b……続きを見る
Over the past few decades, research on metaphor has focused almost exclusively on its verbal and cognitive dimensions. In Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, Charles Forceville argues that metaphor c……続きを見る
著者:Ivan Mladenov
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年04月11日
The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of moder……続きを見る
In Negotiating the New in the French Novel Teresa Bridgeman applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discourse conventions.
Focussing on texts by some of th……続きを見る