Michael Hammond 
Python for Linguists [PDF ebook] 

First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology. It is …

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of deri …

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order”s role in combating …

It”s November 1953 and Dylan Thomas, Britain”s finest poet, is dying in a hospital bed in New York. What brought him to this end is not clear. But he is a man tormented by fear – fear of failing as …

Through an interdisciplinary approach combining the concepts, methods and tools in language and discourse studies and insights from marketing and tourism research, this book examines the online place …

The Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series takes an innovative ”practice to theory” approach, with a ”back-to-front” structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and i …

**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But …

Winner of the ASFLA ( Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) M. A. K. Halliday Prize 2023 This book is the first comprehensive account of ”body language” as ”paralanguage” inform …

Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to use it in an informed and …

This collection brings together the authors” previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its furthe …