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Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined befor......more

This volume forms part of the Applied Linguistics and Language Study collection that looks at the field of analysing and......more

More than 90 record companies release over 9,000 pop records each year--a staggering total of 52,000 songs. Each one com......more

Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text const......more

This volume explores the vast and endlessly growing subject of popular culture, mass culture, the public arts, and mass-......more

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be b......more

Latin for Local History provides a self-teaching guide for those historians who wish to tackle the language in which the......more

Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect ......more

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In this important study, Carl James reviews the role that contrastive analysis can play in understanding and solving pro......more

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass......more

Published in the year 1981, Capital & Labour In South Africa is a valuable contrubution to the field of Social Science....more

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Since its initiation some twenty years ago Longman Linguistics Library has established itself as a series aimed primaril......more

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First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: ......more

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Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and ......more

This first linguistic study of British Sign Language is written for students of linguistics, for deaf and hearing sign l......more

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Professor Hildebrand gives a masterly and succinct account of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and then analyses the m......more

First published in 1985. At a time when much attention is directed to the immense technical power and capacity of new me......more

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This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, ......more

An anthology of library humor by the director of the mythical Molesworth Institute, Norman Stevens, this book is sure to......more

First published in 1986. By the middle of the nineteenth century Japan had been a closed country for more than two hundr......more

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First published in 1986. This study contains an examination of Alexander Luria’s translated research of over half a cent......more

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Is television a cultural wasteland, or a medium that has brought people more great art, music, dance, and drama than any......more

In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have developed originally as a ......more

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First Published in 1987. This book provides an outline for a descriptive basis for the study of human communication by a......more

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This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformat......more

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First published in 1988. Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly interesting and important subject within ......more

First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on l......more

First published in 1988. This is a collection of essays that were presented at or generated afterwards at a meeting on l......more

The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to mo......more

Non-verbal communication - the eye movements, facial expressions, tone of voice, postures and gestures that we all use m......more

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In this book, the development of the English dictionary is examined, along with the kinds of dictionary available, the r......more

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Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary......more

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"...provides good coverage of the empirical literature." --Journal of Communication "...well written and presents a wide......more

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This is a textbook for the times, which addresses itself brilliantly to the twin phenomena of expanding horizons and dim......more

Based on Bernard Comrie’s much praised The World’s Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family.......more

Based on Bernard Comrie’s The World’s Major Languages, this is a key guide to one of the major language families. The ar......more