presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approaches
gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Deborah Cameron, Mary Haas and Deborah Tannen.
Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, Language and Gender is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.
A Handbook of Critical Approaches is one of the best books in its field. It includes the basics of literary theory, all the critical approaches are illustrated by clear and interesting examples. Indispensable for students of literature. It may be a little bit difficult to grasp for complete beginners. Some background knowledge of literary theory is required. The level of language is academic English.
For decades it has been commonly believed that the English language has remained fairly static since the beginning of the eighteenth century, but recent research shows that this is far from true. An Introduction to Late Modern English focuses on the tail end of the standardization process (codification and prescription), during which such important social changes as the Industrial Revolution shaped the language.
"Little Words" is an interdisciplinary examination of the functions and change in the use of clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and other little words that have played a central role in linguistic theory and in language acquisition research. Leading scholars present advanced research in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse function, historical development, variation, and acquisition by children and adults.
Evan's Glossary will become an interesting tool for students and researchers, in linguistics and coming from other neighbouring fields, who want to know what is going on in Cognitive Linguistics, what is going on in Linguistics in the 21st century. -- Maria-Josep Cuenca, Universidad de Valencia Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Evan's Glossary will become an interesting tool for students and researchers, in linguistics and coming from other neighbouring fields, who want to know what is going on in Cognitive Linguistics...
