Ronald Carter & Paul Simpson 
Language, Discourse and Literature [PDF ebook] 
An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

The new edition of Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition defines the key terminology within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this comple …

Winner: AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics 2020 This book investigates the syntactic phenomenon of ellipsis and the linguistic forces that tr …

Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, this fourth edition has been fully …

The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as a pedagogy of negotiating intentions and expectation …

One of the key issues in second language learning and teaching concerns the role and practice of grammar instruction. Does it make a difference? How do we teach grammar in the language classroom? Is …

Is it possible to create democratic forms of policing in transitional and developing societies? This volume argues that policing models and practices promoted by the west are often inadequate for ado …

This book reports recent research on mechanisms of normal formulation and control in speaking and in language disorders such as stuttering, aphasia and verbal dyspraxia. The theoretical claim is that …

First Published in 2005. This is a work remarkable for its scholarship, originality and independence of though. As an introduction to philology it has never been surpassed in terms of combining schol …

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy”s experience of political violence in the period known as the ”years of lead” (1969-c.1983 …

Martin Heidegger”s radical and, for that, controversial reflections on language were not simply a passing interest in his thinking, but a fundamental, career-long concern arguably as significant to …