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34 produkter
New Media Language
Av Jean Aitchison, Diana Lewis
Inbunden, 2003
2504 kr
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New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book investigates …
New Media Language
Av Jean Aitchison, Diana Lewis
Häftad, 2003
646 kr
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New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book investigates …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Inbunden, 2007
2979 kr
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An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on:the possibility of a ‘language gene’post-Chomskyan ideaslanguage …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Häftad, 2011
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
374 kr
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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid …
Words in the Mind
An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon
Häftad, 2012
667 kr
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Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. Explores the latest insights into the complex …
Language and Society
Av William Downes, Jean Aitchison
Häftad, 1998
838 kr
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This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes' textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various explanations. Topics covered include domains of language use, language change, code-switching, speech as social action, and the nature of meaning and …
Language and the Brain
Av Loraine K. Obler, Kris Gjerlow m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
737 kr
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How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language? This concise and accessible book examines the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of …
The Word Weavers
Newshounds and Wordsmiths
Häftad, 2007
491 kr
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Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. Written by one of the foremost authorities on language and the media writing today, this engaging book suggests that view is unfair, and that journalists are in fact skilled 'word weavers' whose output is cleverly worked into …
Understanding Children with Language Problems
Av Shula Chiat, Jean Aitchison
Häftad, 2000
737 kr
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Some children can hear and can speak, yet have trouble understanding or producing utterances. In this accessible introduction to children's language difficulties, Shula Chiat explores the stumbling blocks which lie behind their struggle. The uniqueness of this book lies in its focus on individual …
The Language Web
The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures
Häftad, 1996
502 kr
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Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores the different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses how language evolved in the human species, how children acquire it, and how educated English …
The Seeds of Speech
Language Origin and Evolution
Häftad, 2000
418 kr
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Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and how it has evolved. She likens the search to a …
The Word Weavers
Newshounds and Wordsmiths
Inbunden, 2007
938 kr
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Modern journalism is often the subject of criticism and opposition. Written by one of the foremost authorities on language and the media writing today, this engaging book suggests that view is unfair, and that journalists are in fact skilled 'word weavers' whose output is cleverly worked into …
Thesaurus Construction and Use
A Practical Manual
Av Jean Aitchison, David Bawden m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
1438 kr
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A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT …
Language Change
Progress or Decay?
Inbunden, 2012
1224 kr
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How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of …
Language Change
Progress or Decay?
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
557 kr
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How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of …
Words in the Mind
An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon
E-bok, 2012
772 kr
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Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. Explores the latest insights into the complex …
Words in the Mind
An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. Explores the latest insights into the complex …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
E-bok, 2007
3577 kr
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An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on: the possibility of a ‘language gene’ post-Chomskyan ideas …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
E-bok, 2007
3577 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on: the possibility of a ‘language gene’ post-Chomskyan ideas …
New Media Language
Av Diana Lewis, Jean Aitchison
E-bok, 2004
768 kr
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New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today''s media and contemporary language. From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book …
New Media Language
Av Diana Lewis, Jean Aitchison
E-bok, 2004
768 kr
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New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today''s media and contemporary language. From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book …
Thesaurus Construction and Use
A Practical Manual
Av Alan Gilchrist, David Bawden m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
1707 kr
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A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT …
Thesaurus Construction and Use
A Practical Manual
Av Alan Gilchrist, David Bawden m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
1707 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
E-bok, 2011
393 kr
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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
E-bok, 2011
393 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid …
Articulate Mammal
An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Inbunden, 2015
1876 kr
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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid …
Language Change
Progress or Decay?
E-bok, 2012
554 kr
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How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of …
Language Change
Progress or Decay?
E-bok, 2012
554 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of …
Aitchison's Linguistics
A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics
Häftad, 2010
184 kr
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Is this the right book for me?This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?' It outlines the scope of linguistics, explaining basic concepts and essential terminology with …
