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1. The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture, 3rd Edition

   By Rob Pope

   The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49876-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Early Word-learning in Mandarin and Cantonese: Different Words for Different Worlds

   By Twila Z Tardif

   August 2011 | 978-1-84872-902-5 | Hardback (Psychology Press)

3. Language and Persuasion

   By Susan Hogben

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59080-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics

   By David Block, John Gray, Marnie Holborow

   This book examines and challenges Neoliberalism, or economic liberalism, the ideology at the heart of the current global economic crisis, from the perspective of applied linguistics....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-59204-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchene, Monica Heller

   There is marked variation in the forms taken by the relationships between globalization and localization, between linguistic and cultural dimensions of social practice and its discursive legitimation, and among competing ideologies of language and identity. The goal of this book is to explore...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88859-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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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)

7. Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action

   By Winnie Cheng

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58547-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth Page

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88981-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Multi-modal Spoken Corpus Analysis

   By Svenja Adolphs

   This volume looks at the development of multi-modal spoken corpus analysis. In particular, Adolphs discusses the approaches and results of a number of related research projects that rely upon spoken corpora that integrates textual, prosodic and gestural representations of spoken interactions.&...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88829-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception

    Edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter, Gemma Robinson

    Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...

    July 2011 | 978-0-415-88871-4 | Hardback (Routledge)