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This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods... Læs mere
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This collection is in honour of E.G. Stanley. They apply Stanley's approach of 'wise scepticism' to provide new and exciting readings of difficult and rewarding fields, including Old English metre and verse and Beowulf.
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Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
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This book explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English showing how the standard English dialect is to the detriment of those which are non-standard or from other areas of the world.
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Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus-informed account describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.
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Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation.
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This revised and expanded second edition of English Words brings the study of words right up to date with coverage of text messaging and email and includes new material on psycholinguistics and word meaning.
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Introducing Electronic Text Analysis is a practical and much needed introduction to bodies of linguistic data known as corpora. It examines how corpora enhance our understanding of literary and non-literary works.
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This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in English and discusses the theoretical justification for their classification as a grammatical category.
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Alastair Pennycook looks at how global Englishes, transcultural flows and pedagogy are interconnected in ways that oblige us to rethink language and culture within the contemporary world.
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of how the expression of reciprocity in English has developed and how it is... Læs mere