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Coming Soon: English Phonetics: Twentieth-Century Development

2013-06-18T12:53:42Q

June Author of the Month: David Crystal

2013-06-04T13:03:45Q

David Crystal has been a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster since 1984. Based in Holyhead, Crystal is Honorary Professor at Bangor University, UK. In 1995 he received an OBE for services to the English language, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2000.

He is author of numerous books, including David Crystal's Introduction to Language (2011), Internet Linguistics (2011), Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language (2009) and The Future of Language DVD (2009), all Routledge.

Understanding Intercultural Communication - Negotiating a Grammar of Culture

2013-06-03T10:23:54Q

June Series of the Month: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

2013-06-01T10:17:02Q

Corpus based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics aims to reflect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to provides a forum for debate and detailed discussion of the various ways of building, exploiting and theorizing about the use of corpora in language studies. Series editored by Tony McEnery and Michael Hoey.

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June Book of the Month: Translation and Web Localization

2013-06-01T10:09:00Q

Understanding Semantics, 2nd Edition

2013-05-22T13:16:41Q

"...a rare treat for both seasoned researchers in semantics and novices to the field, and I believe this book should be on every semantics curriculum as it has been on mine since it first appeared." - Luna Filipovic, University of East Anglia, UK

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Language Online - Investigating Digital Texts and Practices

2013-05-22T12:44:08Q

In Language Online, authors David Barton and Carmen Lee explore the impact of the online world on the study of language.

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Second Language Acquisition - An Introductory Course, 4th Edition

2013-05-22T11:29:23Q

"The coverage is broad and current, the style accessible, the discussions of theory and research findings balanced and insightful. Highly recommended." - Mike Long*

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May Book of the Month: Discourse in English Language Education

2013-05-01T08:02:59Q

May Series of the Month: Routledge Leading Linguists

2013-04-30T09:01:21Q

The books in this series, Routledge Leading Linguists, draw together some of the seminal essays from the most important linguists of the last decades. Each book covers one scholar, making the best of his or her work readily accessible and available in one place for the first time. Series edited by Carlos Otero, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, USA

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English Language and Applied Linguistics eCollection

2013-04-22T14:13:01Q

The eCollection features a range of products, from encyclopedias and Handbooks to research monographs, cutting-edge supplementary texts and accessible introductory textbooks, all written by experts in the field, including:

David Crystal, Mona Baker, Susan M. Gass, Jennifer Jenkins, James Paul Gee, Ronald Carter, Norman Fairclough, M.A.K. Halliday, Miriam Meyerhoff, Lawrence Venuti, Jeremy Munday and Andy Kirkpatrick.

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LINGUIST Full of Praise for The History of English: An Introduction

2013-04-11T15:27:31Q

New - Language and Identity in Englishes

2013-04-04T11:24:16Q

New Edition - The Functional Analysis of English

2013-04-04T11:14:54Q

April Author of the Month: Clive Upton

2013-04-01T11:26:30Q

Academic consultant to the BBC Voices project, Clive Upton was until 2012 Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Leeds, having previously held university posts in Sheffield, Birmingham, Africa, and Papua New Guinea. He is now Editor-in-Chief of the journal English Today.

Edited alongside Bethan Davies, Clive Upton's latest project, Analysing 21st Century British English: Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the 'Voices' Project, publishes on 13th May 2013.