From Action to Language: Comparative Perspectives on Primate Tool Use, Gesture and the Evolution of Human Language
Human beings exhibit enormous behavioural diversity within and between populations and have succeeded in populating most of the globe. People vary in their social, mating and parenting behaviour and have diverse and elaborate cultural traits, traditions, norms and institutions. This Theme Issue asks whether and how evolutionary theory can help us to understand this behavioural diversity. The introductory article examines how diversity has been viewed by the main sub-disciplines within the human evolutionary behavioural sciences, namely human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution.
Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York
This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States.
The third edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of English, from its Indo-European pre-history, through the invasions that shaped Old and Middle English, through its speakers' conscious efforts to police it in the Early Modern period, through its present-day transformations manifest in urban slang and text-messaging.
Variety in Written English - Texts in Society-Societies in Text
Combining insights from a variety of written genres including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. Variety in Written Discourse examines a wide range of written genres from advertisements and letters to poetry and literature. Providing an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory, the Bex also proposes a challenging new way of analyzing genre which emphasizes communicative function. The book includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies.
Working with Texts A Core Introduction to Language Analysis
This best-selling introduction to language studies includes a huge range of activities and projects, introducing core areas of language structure and grammar through analysis of real texts. Ideal for both A level and beginning undergraduate students, this second edition includes: an introductory section on how to use the book, material on spoken and written language, children's language, language and ideology...
