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Language at Work eBook Series

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  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá ...
    Series Book 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

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  • Big Questions in ELT

    by Scott Thornbury ...
    For two years now I've been regularly blogging about ELT-related issues that have caught my attention. The topics have been loosely organized around the format of an encyclopaedic dictionary I'd published previously, called An A-Z of ELT. I've since clocked up over a hundred posts that in turn have attracted thousands of comments comprising I don't know how many tens of thousands of words.A couple ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Discourse and Knowledge

    A Sociocognitive Approach

    by Teun A. van Dijk ...
    Most of our knowledge is acquired by discourse, and our ability to produce and understand discourse is impossible without the activation of massive amounts of knowledge of the world. Both 'discourse' and 'knowledge' are fundamental concepts of the humanities and social sciences, but they are often treated separately. Based on a theory of natural knowledge, the book deals with the cognitive ... Read more

    $48.23 CAD

  • Lonergan on Philosophic Pluralism

    The Polymorphism of Conciousness as the Key to Philosophy

    by Gerard Walmsley ...
    In his influential philosophical work Insight, Bernard Lonergan made the intriguing and problematic claim that "the polymorphism of consciousness is the one and only key to philosophy." In Lonergan on Philosophical Pluralism, Gerard Walmsley examines Lonergan's many discussions of the different forms of human consciousness, as well as his sustained responses to the problems raised by philosophical ... Read more

    $72.71 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching

    Edited by Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Code-switching – the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker – is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of language ... Read more

    $65.51 CAD

  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

    $33.11 CAD

  • Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres

    by Carmen Sancho Guinda ...
    Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice. International experts provide an accessible, yet authoritative introduction to key issues and debates surrounding these terms. ... Read more

    $98.72 CAD

  • Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching

    Edited by Jesús Romero-Trillo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and delves into ... Read more

    $104.48 CAD

  • Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

    by Chacon-Beltran, Ruben, Abello-Contesse, Christian and Torreblanca-Lopez, Maria del Mar (eds) ...
    This book brings together a collection of new articles on different aspects of vocabulary teaching and learning. The contributions present the results of original empirical research in the field by well-known scholars as well as some comprehensive reviews. The different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume should be of interest to graduate students and researchers ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages

    Meaning With Power

    Edited by Mary J. Schleppegrell, M. Cecilia Colombi ...
    This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. Learning to use language in ways that meet academic expectations is a challenge for students who have had little exposure and opportunity to use such language outside of school. Although ... Read more

    $77.61 CAD

  • Bilingual Competence and Bilingual Proficiency in Child Development

    by Norbert Francis ...
    A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.When two or more languages are part of a child's world, we are presented with a rich opportunity to learn something about language in general and about how the mind works. In this book, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

    Building on Experience

    Edited by Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez, Dr. Rubén Chacón-Beltrán ...
    Series Book 94 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD