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An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics
Language in Evidence
From the accusation of plagiarism in The Da Vinci Code, to the infamous hoaxer in the Yorkshire Ripper case, the use of linguistic evidence in...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-32024-5
Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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Reading Images
The Grammar of Visual Design
This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-31914-0
Published March 30th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook
This step-by-step, practical guide to the process of creative writing provides readers with a comprehensive course in its art and skill. With genre-based chapters, such...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-31784-9
Published December 20th 2005 by Routledge.
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Introducing Social Semiotics
An Introductory Textbook
Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-24943-0
Published December 14th 2004 by Routledge.
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The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of analyzing the process of translation, is growing....
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-26884-4
Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.
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How to Write It
Now in its fifth edition, this guide to project work continues to be an indispensable resource for all students undertaking research.
Guiding the reader right through...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-33444-0
Published August 5th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Translation Studies Reader
The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-31919-5
Published April 22nd 2004 by Routledge.
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Language, Society and Power
An Introduction
'This is a book written by real academics, drawing articulately on their own research interests, and using an excellent range of twenty-first century examples to...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-30393-4
Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.
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Introducing Interpreting Studies
This book is the first of its type, designed to introduce students, researchers and practitioners to the relatively new, and now fast developing, discipline of...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-26886-8
Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.
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A Survey of Modern English
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this authoritative guide is a comprehensive, scholarly and systematic review of modern English. In one volume the...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-30034-6
Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.
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Analysing Discourse
Textual Analysis for Social Research
Analysing Discourse is an accessible introductory textbook for all students and researchers working with real language data.
Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25892-0
Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.
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Cognitive Poetics in Practice
Cognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-27798-3
Published February 21st 2003 by Routledge.
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Working with Specialized Language
A Practical Guide to Using Corpora
Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language.The resources and techniques used to...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23698-0
Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge.
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Cognitive Poetics
An Introduction
Cognitive poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This book is the...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25894-4
Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge.
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Signs in Use
An Introduction to Semiotics
Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics.All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-26203-3
Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge.
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The English Studies Book
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-25709-1
Published April 25th 2002 by Routledge.
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Lexicography
An Introduction
This book is an accessible introduction to lexicography – the study of dictionaries.Dictionaries are used at home and at school, cited in law courts, sermons and...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23172-5
Published March 28th 2002 by Routledge.
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A University Course in English Grammar
This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as...Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-28810-1
Published March 22nd 2002 by Routledge.
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A History of the English Language
Praise for the fifth edition:
'The fifth edition of A History of the English Language will continue to be the standard reference work on the history...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-28098-3
Published March 21st 2002 by Routledge.
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The Interpreting Studies Reader
The Interpreting Studies Reader is the definitive guide to the growing area of interpreting studies. Spanning the multiple and diverse approaches to interpreting, it draws...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-22477-2
Published December 13th 2001 by Routledge.
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A Critical Linguistic Introduction
This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23174-9
Published July 26th 2001 by Routledge.
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The Discourse of Advertising
The Discourse of Advertising explores the language of contemporary advertising. Cook argues that advertisements are always in complex interaction with the texts around them,...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23454-2
Published July 19th 2001 by Routledge.
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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II
The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-06396-8
Published May 31st 2001 by Routledge.
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Introducing Translation Studies
Theories and Applications
This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory.Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-22926-5
Published April 26th 2001 by Routledge.
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The Routledge History of Literature in English
Britain and Ireland
Wide-ranging and accessible, this textbook covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. It...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-24317-9
Published April 26th 2001 by Routledge.
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Francophone Literatures
A Literary and Linguistic Companion
Francophone Literatures draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe. These areas include North Africa, Black Africa, the...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-19839-4
Published April 19th 2001 by Routledge.
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Textual Interaction
An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis
Textual Interaction provides a clear and cogent account of written discourse analysis. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-23168-8
Published September 14th 2000 by Routledge.
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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity....Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-18680-3
Published May 4th 2000 by Routledge.
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Critical Reading and Writing
An Introductory Coursebook
Critical Reading and Writing is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-19559-1
Published February 17th 2000 by Routledge.
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Essentials of Early English
Old, Middle and Early Modern English
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-18742-8
Published May 27th 1999 by Routledge.
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Introducing English Semantics
Introducing English Semantics is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of meaning.Charles W. Kreidler presents the basic principles of this discipline. He explores...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-18063-4
Published March 26th 1998 by Routledge.
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Feminist Critique of Language
second edition
The Feminist Critique of Language provides a wide-ranging selection of writings on language, gender, and feminist thought. It serves both as a guide to the...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-16399-6
Published March 12th 1998 by Routledge.
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History of English
History of English: * covers the development of the English language from the 5th century to the present day* contains a `mini-corpus' of texts, used...
Paperback | ISBN: 978-0-415-14591-6
Published July 3rd 1997 by Routledge.
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Describing Spoken English
An Introduction
Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology.Charles Kreidler...
Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-15094-1
Published April 10th 1997 by Routledge.
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Language Through Literature
An Introduction
Paul Simpson provides a definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English Literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-14963-1
Published December 5th 1996 by Routledge.
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English
History, Diversity and Change
The story of English is often presented as one of progress: from a set of Germanic dialects to a fully-fledged national and international language. The...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-13117-9
Published April 4th 1996 by Routledge.
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In Other Words
A Coursebook on Translation
This bestselling Coursebook addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies by drawing on key areas in modern linguistic theory and...Hardback | ISBN: 978-0-415-03085-4
Published July 30th 1992 by Routledge.
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