Shirley Brice Heath 
Words at Work and Play [EPUB ebook] 
Three Decades in Family and Community Life

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 …

The topic of communication in elderly care is becoming ever more pressing, with an aging world population and burgeoning numbers of people needing care. This book looks at this critical but underanal …

Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these …

‘ Helps writers traverse the often difficult journey from first draft to finished product .’ Publishers Weekly ‘ One of the things that sets Vander Meer apart is his embrace of technology and media ‘ …

Philosophers have raised and struggled with questions relating to human language for more than 2000 years. Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of this …

Computing has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of linguistics and is shaping the way we conceptualize both linguistics and language. Using Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical int …

The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and langua …

The focus of this study is the use of amatory discourses in poetry of a political or advisory nature, written in Scotland between the early fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century. Joanna Martin offers n …

It is now well established that phonological — and orthographic — codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence …

Online Teaching and Learning shows how learning through the internet depends on complex human interactions for success. The text uses sociocultural theory as its foundational stance to empirically ex …