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Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction
By Michaela Mahlberg
This book presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. The analysis begins with clusters -- i.e. repeated sequences of words -- as pointers to local textual functions, and...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-80014-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sino-Tibetan Linguistics
Edited by Randy LaPolla
The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1.4 billion spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. The family consists of two branches: Sinitic, consisting of the Chinese languages (including...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-57739-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean
By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt
This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory, including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation,...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-88351-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Dwight Atkinson
This volume presents seven alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition – 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All seven approaches – sociocultural, complexity theory, conversation analysis, identity, language...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-54925-7 | Paperback (Routledge)