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A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5, 000 words and the 2, 000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonl …

Introducing English for Academic Purposes is an accessible and engaging textbook which presents a wide-ranging introduction to the field, covering the global and institutional position of EAP as well …

This book compares the civil and common law approach to analyze the question – ”What sorts of conduct may the state legitimately make criminal?”. Through a comparative focus on an Australian and Ge …

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin we …

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around th …

Research into Natural Language Processing – the use of computers to process language – has developed over the last couple of decades into one of the most vigorous and interesting areas of current wor …

First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward, explicit, formal and flexible enough to accommodate many of the more gener …

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle”s premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue o …

English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals …

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 …