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   Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics

   By Margaret Thomas

   Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics introduces some of the most influential figures in the field of English Language and Linguistics. Each entry includes a discussion of the person’s life and thought as well as the historical context of their work and an analysis of their lasting...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-37303-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Intelligibility in World Englishes

   By Cecil L. Nelson

   Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. This much-debated concern touches not only sociolinguistic theory but all aspects of English language teaching, second...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-87182-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. David Crystal's Introduction to Language: The lectures

   By David Crystal

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60267-9 | DVD (Routledge)

4. Language and Technology

   By Angela Goddard, Beverly Geesin

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60416-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action

   By Graham Hall

   The first title in the new Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series, featuring introductory textbooks covering the key topics in Applied Linguistics. Exploring English Language Teaching provides a single volume introduction to the field of ELT from an applied linguistics...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58415-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy

   By Keith Gilyard

   In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions to...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-88717-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide

   By David Crystal

   The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life and linguists are increasingly concerned with how it is impacting on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller, Language and the Internet and...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60271-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Language and Learning in the Digital Age

   By James Paul Gee, Elisabeth Hayes

   In the context of moral panics surrounding social media, the internet and video games and concerns over how digital media are affecting the young and their ability to learn and communicate effectively, leading educationalists James Paul Gee and Elisabeth Hayes, put forward arguments for how digital...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-60277-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Language, Society and Power: An Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By Jean Stilwell Peccei, Annabelle Mooney, Suzanne LaBelle, Berit Engøy Henriksen, Eva Eppler, Satori Soden, Pia Pichler, Anthea Irwin, Sian Preece

   Language, Society and Power is the essential introductory text for students studying language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-57659-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    English: An Essential Grammar, 2nd Edition

    By Gerald Nelson

    English: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly guide to the grammar of modern English, written specifically for native speakers and based on genuine samples of contemporary spoken and written English. In the first four chapters, this book covers the essentials of English grammar,...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-58296-4 | Paperback (Routledge)