Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced – serie
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Historical Phonology of English
Häftad, 2013
322 kr
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A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English’ phonological structure, this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old, Middle, Early Modern and Present Day English.Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book covers the sounds of …
Historical Syntax of English
Av Bettelou Los
Häftad, 2015
532 kr
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This book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English, addressing key issues of interpretation and focus for the benefit of students of the topic. It does not assume any knowledge of Old or Middle English or of formal syntax, although students should …
English Historical Sociolinguistics
Häftad, 2012
513 kr
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Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret …
English Historical Sociolinguistics
Inbunden, 2012
2258 kr
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Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret …
English Historical Pragmatics
Av Andreas H Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen
Häftad, 2013
348 kr
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Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and …
English Historical Semantics
Av Christian Kay, Kathryn L Allan
Häftad, 2015
322 kr
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This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and …
English Historical Semantics
Av Christian Kay, Kathryn L Allan
Inbunden, 2015
1362 kr
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This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and …
Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English
Av Jan Don
Inbunden, 2014
2258 kr
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In presenting the morphology of English in relation to theoretical developments that have shaped the field over the last couple of decades, this textbook gives a reasoned overview of the morphology of English. Each chapter analyses English morphological data on a particular theme, before …
Contemporary Stylistics
Language, Cognition, Interpretation
Av Alison Gibbons, Sara Whiteley
Inbunden, 2018
2521 kr
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Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become 'lost in a book' or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the …
Contemporary Stylistics
Language, Cognition, Interpretation
Av Alison Gibbons, Sara Whiteley
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become 'lost in a book' or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the …
Contemporary Stylistics
Language, Cognition, Interpretation
Av Alison Gibbons, Sara Whiteley
E-bok, 2018
469 kr
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How do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become ‘lost in a book’ or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, …
Contemporary Stylistics
Language, Cognition, Interpretation
Av Alison Gibbons, Sara Whiteley
E-bok, 2018
469 kr
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How do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become ‘lost in a book’ or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, …
Critical Account of English Syntax
Grammar, Meaning, Text
Inbunden, 2016
2183 kr
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Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to …
Critical Account of English Syntax
Grammar, Meaning, Text
Häftad, 2016
348 kr
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Tackling the role of syntactic constructions in text, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of different clausal structures in written and spoken texts. It also draws attention to variation in standard written English, to …
History of English Spelling
Inbunden, 2025
1883 kr
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Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling is the Cinderella of modern linguistics. But it is a complex and fascinating subject. With a rich history of variation, English spelling has much to offer diachronic …
History of English Spelling
Häftad, 2025
322 kr
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Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling is the Cinderella of modern linguistics. But it is a complex and fascinating subject. With a rich history of variation, English spelling has much to offer diachronic …
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
3rd Edition
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
Inbunden, 2026
2183 kr
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The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology …
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
3rd Edition
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
Häftad, 2026
322 kr
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The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide.After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology …
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
3rd Edition
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
E-bok, 2026
420 kr
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The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic …
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
3rd Edition
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
E-bok, 2026
420 kr
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The third edition of this successful text provides an ideal introduction for university students of English at the intermediate level. Students planning papers, dissertations or theses will find the book a particularly valuable guide. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic …
Modern Scots
An Analytical Survey
Inbunden, 2018
2258 kr
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A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations …
Modern Scots
An Analytical Survey
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations …
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
Inbunden, 2018
2171 kr
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Books in this series provide readers with a detailed description and explanation of key areas of English Language study. The authors presuppose a basic working knowledge of the topic and explore aspects of the linguistics of English for an intermediate or advanced student readership.
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
Av Hans Lindquist, Magnus Levin
Häftad, 2018
532 kr
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A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English – revised and updated. After introducing corpora and the rationale and basic methodology of corpus linguistics, the author presents a number of recent case studies providing new insights into …
English Syntax
A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation
Inbunden, 2020
2258 kr
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This textbook introduces the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it equips you with a firm grounding in tools of syntactic analysis while demonstrating the potential for variationist linguistics and theoretical syntax to feed …
English Syntax
A Minimalist Account of Structure and Variation
Häftad, 2020
338 kr
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This textbook introduces the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it equips you with a firm grounding in tools of syntactic analysis while demonstrating the potential for variationist linguistics and theoretical syntax to feed …
Construction Grammar and its Application to English
Inbunden, 2019
2205 kr
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What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as …
Construction Grammar and its Application to English
Häftad, 2019
322 kr
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What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as …
Construction Grammar and its Application to English
E-bok, 2019
420 kr
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What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers'' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as …
Construction Grammar and its Application to English
E-bok, 2019
420 kr
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What do speakers of English know in order to produce utterances that other speakers will understand? Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers'' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as …
