The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Shalom Lappin and Chris Fox
The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics.

• Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
• Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research
• Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to current theoretical work

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 772
File size: 7.17 MB

$65.00

Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation

Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation

Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation

Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation by Ying Cui and Wei Zhao
The Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation presents an interdisciplinary approach to educational contexts across cultures for the study of verbal and written linguistics in order to broaden students communicative and problem solving abilities. This book is an essential reference source for academicians, researchers, professionals, and students in the fields of education and linguistics interested in the assessment and evaluation of pedagogical research to enhance learning methodologies and practices.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 485
File size: 10.19 MB

$60.00

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics) by Farzad Sharifian

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses key issues of language and culturally based linguistic research from a variety of perspectives and theoretical frameworks.
This Handbook features thirty-three newly commissioned chapters which

• cover key areas such as cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and sociolinguistics
• offer insights into the historical development, contemporary theory, research, and practice of each topic, and explore the potential future directions of the field
• show readers how language and culture research can be of practical benefit to applied areas of research and practice, such as intercultural communication and second language teaching and learning.

Written by a group of prominent scholars from around the globe, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture provides a vital resource for scholars and students working in this area.

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Ebook page: 539
File size: 3.62 MB

$45.00

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics) by Andrew Carnie and Dan Siddiqi
The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches.
The handbook covers key issues within the field that include:
• core areas of syntactic empirical investigation,
• contemporary approaches to syntactic theory,
• interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system,
• experimental and computational approaches to syntax.
Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 735
File size: 5.94 MB

$45.00

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Carmen Millán and Francesca Bartrina
The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies.
Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including:

• the current status of the field and its interdisciplinary nature
• the problematic definition of the object of study
• the various theoretical frameworks
• the research methodologies available.

The handbook also includes discussion of the most recent theoretical, descriptive and applied research, as well as glimpses of future directions within the field and an extensive up-to-date bibliography.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 594
File size: 4.56 MB

$47.00

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Vijay Bhatia and Stephen Bremner
A handbook like this is long overdue. Professional communication, especially from the workplace vantage point, has long been overshadowed by interest in exclusively academic communication. Bhatia and Bremner have brought together a host of specialists in English for specific purposes, genre analysis, business communication and other related areas, as well as representatives of such fields as banking and law, all of whom contribute to what becomes, in effect, a compelling argument for learning more about written, spoken, and multimodal communication in professional communities.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 613
File size: 4.34 MB

$45.00

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Glenn Fulcher and Fred Davidson

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing offers a critical and comprehensive overview of language testing and assessment within the fields of applied linguistics and language study.
An understanding of language testing is essential for applied linguistic research, language education, and a growing range of public policy issues. This handbook is an indispensable introduction and reference to the study of the subject. Specially commissioned chapters by leading academics and researchers of language testing address the most important topics facing researchers and practitioners, including:

• An overview of the key issues in language testing
• Key research methods and techniques in language test validation
• The social and ethical aspects of language testing
• The philosophical and historical underpinnings of assessment practices
• The key literature in the field
• Test design and development practices through use of practical examples

The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing is the ideal resource for postgraduate students, language teachers, and those working in the field of applied linguistics.

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 551
File size: 5.77 MB

$35.00

The Routledge Companion to English Studies

The Routledge Companion to English Studies

The Routledge Companion to English Studies

The Routledge Companion to English Studies by Constant Leung and Brian V Street

English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an authoritative overview of the subject area. Taking into account the changing conceptualisations of English, this Companion considers both historical trajectories and contemporary perspectives whilst also showcasing the state-of-the-art contributions made by the established scholars of the field.
The Routledge Companion to English Studies:

• provides a set of broad perspectives on English as a subject of study and research


• highlights the importance of the link between English and other languages within the concepts of multilingualism and polylingualism


• investigates the use of language in communication through the medium of digital technology covering key issues such as Digital Literacies, Multimodal Literacies and Games and Broadcast Language


• explores the role of English in education taking account of social, ethnographic and global perspectives on pedagogical issues.

This collection of thirty-four newly commissioned articles provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the dynamic and diverse field of English Studies and will be an invaluable text for advanced students and researchers in this area.

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 551
File size: 3.87 MB

$40.00

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Manel Lacorte
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates. The goal of this book is to re-contextualize the notion of applied linguistics as simply the application of theoretical linguistic concepts to practical settings and to consider it as its own field that addresses language-based issues and problems in a real-world context. The book is organized into five parts: 1) perspectives on learning Spanish 2) issues and environments in Spanish teaching 3) Spanish in the professions 4) the discourses of Spanish and 5) social and political contexts for Spanish. The book’s all-inclusive coverage gives students the theoretical and sociocultural context for study in Hispanic applied linguistics while offering practical information on its application in the professional sector.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 717
File size: 2.78 MB

$45.00

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Martha Bigelow and Johanna Ennser-Kananen

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the core and current language-related issues in educational contexts. Bringing together the expertise and voices of well-established as well as emerging scholars from around the world, the handbook offers over thirty authoritative and critical explorations of methodologies and contexts of educational linguistics, issues of instruction and assessment, and teacher education, as well as coverage of key topics such as advocacy, critical pedagogy, and ethics and politics of research in educational linguistics. Each chapter relates to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of pertinent research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.
This volume embraces multiple, dynamic perspectives and a range of voices in order to move forward in new and productive directions, making The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics an essential volume for any student and researcher interested in the issues surrounding language and education, particularly in multilingual and multicultural settings.

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 507
File size: 2.16 MB

$40.00

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics (Routledge Handbooks in English Language Studies) by Michael Burke

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience and cover core issues that include:

• historical perspectives centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism
• the elements of stylistic analysis that include the linguistic levels of foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech acts, speech and thought presentation　 and point of view


• current areas of ‘hot topic’ research, such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics and feminist/critical stylistics
• emerging and future trends including the stylistics of multimodality, creative writing, hypertext fiction and neuroscience

Each of the thirty-two chapters provides: an introduction to the subject; an overview of the history of the topic; an analysis of the main current and critical issues; a section with recommendations for practice, and a discussion of possible future trajectory of the subject.

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 559
File size: 2.39 MB

$40.00

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks) by William S-Y Wang and Chaofen Sun
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas.
This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 788
File size: 12.00 MB

$50.00

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (Oxford Handbooks) by Sonja Lanehart
The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective. The Handbook offers a survey of language and its uses in African American communities from a wide range of contexts organized into seven sections: Origins and Historical Perspectives; Lects and Variation; Structure and Description; Child Language Acquisition and Development; Education; Language in Society; and Language and Identity. It is a handbook of research on African American Language (AAL) and, as such, provides a variety of scholarly perspectives that may not align with each other -- as is indicative of most scholarly research. The chapters in this book "interact" with one another as contributors frequently refer the reader to further elaboration on and references to related issues and connect their own research to related topics in other chapters within their own sections and the handbook more generally to create dialogue about AAL, thus affirming the need for collaborative thinking about the issues in AAL research. Though the Handbook does not and cannot include every area of research, it is meant to provide suggestions for future work on lesser-studied areas (e.g., variation/heterogeneity in regional, social, and ethnic communities) by highlighting a need for collaborative perspectives and innovative thinking while reasserting the need for better research and communication in areas thought to be resolved.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 945
File size: 12.37 MB

$90.00

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics) by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans

The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a survey of the field covering the methods which underpin current work; models of language change; and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines.
Divided into five sections, the volume encompass a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas:

• historical perspectives


• methods and models


• language change


• interfaces


• regional summaries

Each of the thirty-two chapters is written by a specialist in the field and provides: a introduction to the subject; an analysis of the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic study of the topic; an overview of the main current and critical trends; and examples from primary data. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.

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Ebook page: 777
File size: 4.94 MB

$84.00

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics) by Martha Bigelow and Johanna Ennser-Kananen

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the core and current language-related issues in educational contexts. Bringing together the expertise and voices of well-established as well as emerging scholars from around the world, the handbook offers over thirty authoritative and critical explorations of methodologies and contexts of educational linguistics, issues of instruction and assessment, and teacher education, as well as coverage of key topics such as advocacy, critical pedagogy, and ethics and politics of research in educational linguistics. Each chapter relates to key issues raised in the respective topic, providing additional historical background, critical discussion, reviews of pertinent research methods, and an assessment of what the future might hold.
This volume embraces multiple, dynamic perspectives and a range of voices in order to move forward in new and productive directions, making The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics an essential volume for any student and researcher interested in the issues surrounding language and education, particularly in multilingual and multicultural settings.

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 507
File size: 2.16 MB

$85.00

The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology

The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology

The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology

The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics) by Abigail C. Cohn and Cécile Fougeron
This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of research in laboratory phonology, an interdisciplinary research perspective which brings a wide range of experimental and analytic tools to bear on the central questions of how knowledge of spoken language is structured, learned, and used. The book presents works illustrating how laboratory phonology is practiced and highlights promising areas of current research.
Contributions address how laboratory phonology approaches and methodologies have provided insight into human speech and sound structure. Part one introduces the history, nature, and aims of laboratory phonology. The remaining four parts cover central issues in research done within this perspective, as well as methodological resources used for investigating these issues. This Handbook, the first specifically dedicated to the laboratory phonology approach, builds on the foundation of
knowledge amassed in linguistics, speech research and allied disciplines. With the varied interdisciplinary contributions collected, the Handbook showcases work in this vibrant field.
Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 888
File size: 5.85 MB

$15.00

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 10 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 10 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 10 Volume Set

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 10 Volume Set by Carol A. Chapelle
This ground-breaking reference work, available online or as a 10-volume print set, is a comprehensive resource covering the highly diverse field of applied linguistics.

• Brings together historic and emerging areas of research within applied linguistics
• Combines individual entries ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 words, with longer, essay-style contributions giving a detailed overview of key developments and ideas
• Includes over 1,100 entries written by an international team of scholars from over 40 countries
• Covers 27 key areas of the field, including Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Assessment and Testing, Corpus Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Cognitive Second Language Acquisition, Language Policy and Planning, Literacy, and Technology and Language
• Features over 200 entries on the philosophy and history of applied linguistics and biographies of key applied linguists
• Ideal for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics

Ebook format: PDF
Ebook page: 6837
File size: 29.07 MB

$1025.00