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An understanding of grammar enables us to see how language works and how to use it in the right ways. This clear, succinct and up-to-date dictionary, which covers virtually every significant grammatical term, is ideal for teachers, s read more
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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual high read more
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The Onset of Literacy addresses one of the main questions in the field ofreading research - why the acquisition of skills in reading and writing appears tobe so much more difficult than the earlier acquisition of speech communication. Aswell as pos read more
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In Speaking, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut f r Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and read more
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Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual act read more
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In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of un read more
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Updated and revised to include a broader range of issues read more
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