Crucial Conversations offers readers a proven seven-point strategy for achieving their goals in all those emotionally, psychologically, or legally charged ...more on ebook "Crucial Conversations : Tools for T..."

Over the past 80 years, the way that citation frequency was counted and analyzed changed dramatically from the early manual transcribing and statistical ...more on ebook "Author Cocitation Analysis: Quantit..."

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory ...more on ebook "Cognitive Linguistics..."

From pen-and-parchment to the email revolution, Baron's account shows how a surprising variety of factors--including religious beliefs, the law, nationalism, ...more on ebook "Alphabet to Email..."

One of the English language's most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.

As usual Bill Bryson ...more on ebook "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome ..."

This valuable book shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research. Using ...more on ebook "A Guide to Doing Statistics in Seco..."

BSL is the language used by the Deaf Community in the UK and is an officially recognised language in its own right. It has its own grammar and syntax, which are ...more on ebook "British Sign Language For Dummies..."

This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang‘s work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes ...more on ebook "Between Syntax and Semantics..."

A Novel Writer's Guide to Showing and Narration ...more on ebook "A Novel Writer's Guide to Showing a..."

This book explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language ...more on ebook "An Introduction to Language and Soc..."

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Jeremy Tambling offers students a concise history and critical commentary on ‘allegory' from its prominence in Medieval and Renaissance literature through to ...more on ebook "Allegory..."