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A guide to Perl scripting with CGI explains how to add such interactive features to Web pages as forms, guest books, and search engines.
By Joan Swann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415674201 | Routledge, April 6, 2012, cover price $170.00

Paperback:

9780415674218 | Routledge, April 5, 2012, cover price $44.95
9780201353587, titled "Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide" | Peachpit Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $18.99 | also contains Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide | About this edition: A guide to Perl scripting with CGI explains how to add such interactive features to Web pages as forms, guest books, and search engines.
9780201353419, titled "Dhtml: For the World Wide Web" | Peachpit Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | also contains Dhtml: For the World Wide Web | About this edition: A beginner's guide to DHTML explains how to use DHTML to create effective multimedia web sites, offering task-oriented, step-by-step directions on how to utilize the diverse functions and facets of this complex technology to develop visually stunning effects.

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Product Description: 'Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book. Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creative and dialogic nature are especially appropriate and creative ways of approaching the subject of creativity...read more
By Ronald Carter (editor), Rob Pope (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780230575592 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2011), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: 'Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book.

Paperback:

9780230575608 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2011), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: This edited collection brings together established and newer scholars who, collectively, are able to represent "the state of the art" on creativity in language.

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Hardcover:

9780748638437 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 29, 2009, cover price $146.80 | also contains Introducing Sociolinguistics

Paperback:

9789027232656 | 2 edition (John Benjamins Pub Co, June 15, 2009), cover price $34.95 | also contains Introducing Sociolinguistics, Introducing Sociolinguistics
9780748638444 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 1, 2009, cover price $29.15 | also contains Introducing Sociolinguistics, Introducing Sociolinguistics
9781556192067 | Ill edition (John Benjamins Pub Co, February 1, 2000), cover price $34.95

Miscellaneous:

9780748632497 | 2 edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 1, 2009), cover price $159.99 | also contains Introducing Sociolinguistics, Introducing Sociolinguistics

Offering a synthesis of various approaches to sociolinguistics, this work covers areas such as code-choice, language variation, dialectology, gender, multilingualism, language contact, language learning, interactional studies, language inequality, and power.

Paperback:

9780748607730 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, December 22, 1999, cover price $29.15 | About this edition: Offering a synthesis of various approaches to sociolinguistics, this work covers areas such as code-choice, language variation, dialectology, gender, multilingualism, language contact, language learning, interactional studies, language inequality, and power.

Miscellaneous:

9780748632497 | 2 edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 1, 2009), cover price $159.99 | also contains Introducing Sociolinguistics, Introducing Sociolinguistics

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Product Description: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world...read more
By Barbara Mayor (editor), Neil Mercer (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415376860 | Routledge, May 9, 2007, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.

Paperback:

9780415376877 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 9, 2007), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.

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Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day. It focuses on the radical changes that have taken place in the structure of English over a millennium and a half, detailing the influences of migration, colonialism and many other historical, social and cultural phenomena. Expert authors illustrate and analyze dialects, accents and the shifting styles of individual speakers as they respond to changing circumstances. The reader is introduced to many key debates relating to the English language, illustrated by specific examples of data in context. Including key material retained from the earlier bestselling book, English: History, Diversity and Change, this edition has been thoroughly reorganized and updated with entirely new material. Changing English: explains basic concepts, easily located through a comprehensive index includes contributions by experts in the field, such as David Crystal, David Graddol, Dick Leith, Lynda Mugglestone and Joan Swann contains a range of source material and commissioned readings to supplement chapters. Changing English makes an essential contribution to the field of English language studies.
By Julia Gillen (editor), David Graddol (editor), Dick Leith (editor), Martin Rhys (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415376693 | Routledge, January 15, 2007, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Changing English examines the history of English from its origins in the fifth century to the present day.

Paperback:

9780415376792 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 15, 2007), cover price $47.95

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Product Description: The volume provides a critical examination of ideas about everyday creativity, introducing a variety of approaches to its study. It explores an argument that has become influential within English language studies--that speakers and writers routinely use language creatively, and that there is some continuity between such everyday creativity and literary language...read more
By Janet Maybin (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Paperback:

9781403985590 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 18, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The volume provides a critical examination of ideas about everyday creativity, introducing a variety of approaches to its study.

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The burgeoning field of sociolinguistics (the socially oriented study of language) is characterized by increasing heterogeneity and a proliferation of theories, concepts, and new terminology. This dictionary is designed to help a user navigate a way through the complex discipline. The entries are organized alphabetically and are explained with a minimum of academic jargon. The dictionary accommodates a broad interpretation of sociolinguistics, including macro- and micro-sociolinguistics and a range of approaches within variationist, interactional, critical, and applied traditions. The authors draw from professional experience in all areas of sociolinguistics and a variety of geographical areas, including the United States, United Kingdom and Europe, Australia, southern Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. Topics covered are relevant to a number of academic disciplines, such as anthropology, psychology, communications, sociology, education, and linguistics.

Hardcover:

9780817314262 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $79.95

Paperback:

9780817350970 | Univ of Alabama Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The burgeoning field of sociolinguistics (the socially oriented study of language) is characterized by increasing heterogeneity and a proliferation of theories, concepts, and new terminology.

English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world. It looks at the place of English within formal education, and at some of the controversies that have surrounded the teaching of English.
By Neil Mercer (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Paperback:

9780415131223 | Routledge, December 1, 1996, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: English is learnt, internationally, in a range of diverse settings.

Miscellaneous:

9780203993200 | Routledge, December 5, 1996, cover price $43.95 | also contains Learning English: Development and Diversity, Learning English: Development and Diversity

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By David Graddol (editor), Dick Leith (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Paperback:

9780415131186 | Routledge, May 1, 1996, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: 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 emphasis in this book is on the diversity of English throughout its history and the changing social meanings of different varieties of English...read more
By David Graddol (editor), Dick Leith (editor) and Joan Swann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415131179 | Routledge, May 1, 1996, cover price $157.00 | About this edition: 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.

Product Description: The nine papers included in this volume are selected from those presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, held at the University of Essex, September 1992. Each of these papers takes a different approach to the conference theme of "evaluation"...read more
By David Graddol and Joan Swann (editor)

Paperback:

9781853592386 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The nine papers included in this volume are selected from those presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, held at the University of Essex, September 1992.

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Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Paperback:

9781853591808 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: First published in 1993.

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Hardcover:

9780631164685 | Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1992, cover price $47.95

Paperback:

9780631164692 | Blackwell Pub, November 1, 1992, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Does the language we speak create and sustain a sexist culture?This controversial and exciting proposal has fascinated feminists,psychologists and linguists alike for well over a decade. Theauthors of Gender Voices explore in a clear and comprehensivemanner the idea that language shapes individual lives-that throughour speech we all help recreate gender divisions in society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780631137344 | Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1990, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Does the language we speak create and sustain a sexist culture?

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