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Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths, focusing on important big-picture issues such as the rule-governed nature of language or the influence of social factors on how we speak. Case studies and analysis of relevant experiments teach readers the skills to become informed consumers of social science research, while suggested open-ended exercises invite students to reflect further on what they've learned. With coverage of a broad range of topics (cognitive, social, historical), this textbook is ideal for non-technical survey courses in linguistics. Important points are illustrated with specific, memorable examples: invariant 'be' shows the rule-governed nature of African-American English; vulgar female speech in Papua New Guinea shows how beliefs about language and gender are culture-specific. Engaging and accessibly written, Kaplan's lively discussion challenges what we think we know about language.
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9781107084926 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 3, 2016, cover price $94.99
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9781107446908 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 11, 2016, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Do women talk more than men?
Product Description: This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning - perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives...read more
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9783110377323 | Mouton De Gruyter, September 25, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning - perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.
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9780190256623 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 14, 2015, cover price $74.00
Product Description: Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation...read more
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9783110343557 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 20, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Where is the locus of language variation?
Product Description: The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language. Most linguists, on the contrary, are firmly convinced that it is better to consider language as an evolving and changing entity...read more
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9789027202802 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 8, 2014, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language.
Product Description: Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap...read more
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9789027215796 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 10, 2014, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades.
Product Description: Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore the language that people use when they communicate on social media sites...read more
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9780415841993 | Student edition (Routledge, June 24, 2014), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research.
Product Description: Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language...read more
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9781137404848 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2014, cover price $100.00
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9781137404855 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent?
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9780415842006 | Student edition (Routledge, June 26, 2014), cover price $43.95
Product Description: Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first part offers an in-depth discussion of contrastive linguistics, with special emphasis on using translations as tertium comparationis and a parallel corpus as the main source of material...read more
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9789027203649 | John Benjamins Pub Co, August 15, 2013, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically.
Product Description: In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language. The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen in every aspect of language study, and new ways of researching the field are needed...read more
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9780415524940 | Routledge, June 13, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language.
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9780415524957 | Routledge, June 14, 2013, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language.
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9781478357049 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 30, 2012, cover price $19.95
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