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Endangered Languages
Edited by Peter K. Austin, Stuart McGill
The field of endangered languages and language documentation research and practice is a growing one with new programmes having been established in Europe, Australia and the US recently, and new initiatives planned for the future. This is one area of the humanities that has attracted the largest...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-43843-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
By Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao
This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-99245-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland (3 Volumes): Scots Section
Edited by H. H. Speitel, J. Y. Mather
This work is a reissue of the three volumes of the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, first published in 1975, 1977 and 1985 respectively. The volumes offer a thorough and comprehensive dialectological study of Lowland Scotland, Orkney and Shetland, Northern Ireland, Northumberland&...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-57150-0 | Pack (Routledge)
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Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic
By Jeffrey Heath
This is a comprehensive study of the Jewish and Muslim dialect networks of Morocco in its traditional boundaries, covering twenty-two Muslim and some thirty Jewish dialects of Moroccan Arabic....
November 2009 | 978-0-415-56778-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders: The Politics and Place of English as a World Language
By Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes (WEs) in the wake of globalization and its accompanying shifting priorities in many dimensions of modern life, including the emergence of the English language as the dominant lingua franca (ELF). Chew...
October 2009 | 978-0-415-87227-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Rationality and the Literate Mind
By Roy Harris
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...
January 2009 | 978-0-415-99901-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Contact Languages
Edited by John Holm, Susanne Michaelis
Contact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of our globalizing planet today. Pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second-language...
2008 | 978-0-415-40377-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Language: A Linguistic Introduction to History
Edited by J. Vendryes
Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...
2008 | 978-0-415-48752-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English
Edited by Tom Dalzell
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers,...
2008 | 978-0-415-37182-7 | Hardback (Routledge)