Medical Interpret Cross Cult Comm ...more on ebook "Medical Interpret Cross Cult Comm..."

What we say always consists of prior words, structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book, Deborah Schiffrin looks at two ...more on ebook "In Other Words..."

This accessible textbook in the Intertext series is unique in offering student's practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of politics. It can be used individually or ...more on ebook "The Language of Politics..."

The english of the southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness among regional vari ...more on ebook "English in the Southern United Stat..."

This is a new and groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceed ...more on ebook "Linguistic Evolution through Langua..."

Charles Forceville provides us with a method of detecting the metaphors which exist within pictures, particularly in advertising. ...more on ebook "Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising..."

This concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For str ...more on ebook "A Short History of Structural Lingu..."

Creolization of Language and Culture ...more on ebook "Creolization of Language and Cultur..."

Describes the varied and changing Spanish language at the end of the twentieth century. By extracts from contemporary press and literary sources it provides a comprehensive overview of the v ...more on ebook "The Spanish Language Today..."

Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. ...more on ebook "Writes of Passage..."