Language & Linguistics

The Language, Society and Power Reader is the definitive reader for students studying introductory modules in sociolinguistics and language in its social contexts...

Delia Chiaro shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the time-space compression brought about by modern technology has generated new ways of joking and playing with language. The Language of Jokes in the Digital Ag..

Delia Chiaro shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the time-space compression brought about by modern technology has generated new ways of joking and playing with language. The Language of Jokes in the Digital Ag..

This accessible textbook in the Intertext series is unique in offering student's practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of politics. It can be used individually or with the series core textbook...

With more and more scientific language being applied -and misapplied- in our daily lives, this title from the Intertext series explores the use of scientific terms through hot topics from the MMR vaccine to AIDS and biological weapons..

This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of sport. It combines activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and further activity suggestions...

The Language of Work examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples and a section on entering the world of work...

The Language of Work examines language use in business and the workplace, representations of work and how people in business interact. Includes many real-world examples and a section on entering the world of work...

This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features...

This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features...

This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are ..

This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps, through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides...