http://www.palgrave.com/home/ Language and Linguistics News from Palgrave Macmillan. Fri, 29 May 2009 12:50:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-gb http://www.palgrave.com/assets/i/palgrave_rss.gif http://www.palgrave.com/home/ http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280396 A corpus is a collection of texts often used by students to study language. Increasingly this is done online and so this introduction is an essential guide to using these resources Fri, 29 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=350245 An analysis of how language ideology is changing in a globalizing world Fri, 29 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=311310 This volume explores global Englishes, and in particular Asian Englishes, with diverse perspectives across the languages and cultures by its contributors Fri, 22 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281241 While telling the remarkable story of publisher Max Reinhardt, this book illuminates the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century Fri, 08 May 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276612 First-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians, juxtaposed with media representations of the backstage of politics. Mon, 27 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280619 The author shows that formulaic genres are everywhere, ranging from engagement notices through political propaganda to cartoon humour Fri, 24 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=309726 An account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor in twentieth-century narrative, drama, psychoanalysis, political rhetoric and film Fri, 17 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=350243 An international group of authors discuss the implications for TESOL professionals of the perception that English is once again becoming an imperial language Fri, 03 April 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281068 A state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Fri, 27 March 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=291969 An overview of the major linguistic and legal issues arising in legal translation. Fri, 20 March 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280404 Up to date account of minority language usage including debates over mother tongue versus Chinese language learning, effectiveness of educational provision and endangered minority languages. Fri, 06 March 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281506 This is a collection of language and gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction in a wide range of sociocultural, private and institutional settings. Fri, 13 February 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281072 An important study of minority language policy formation as a conflict-laden process, and not an end result. Fri, 13 February 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281237 By developing literary, theatrical, historical and philosophical analyses, the book puts character back at the core of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and a thinker Fri, 19 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283288 This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. Tue, 16 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=292210 A vivid and topical exploration of issues affecting minority languages in the light of large scale migration right across Europe. Mon, 15 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=291988 An up-to-date picture of thinking on internationalization and its impact on Chinese and western institutions. Fri, 12 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=268770 Provides a detailed analysis of the discourse of television. Fri, 05 December 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=291988 Experts in this diverse and complex field present an up-to-date picture of thinking on internationalization and its impact on Chinese and western institutions. Fri, 28 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276752 An up-to-date account of one of the most complex and dynamic areas in the translation discipline. Fri, 21 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=269252 This straightforward and non-technical text can be read easily by potential professional partners and by those who first language is not English. Fri, 14 November 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280612 A history of the passive voice and its related constructions and their functional and structural link. Fri, 17 October 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305770 The very first book to look at sign language poetry, analysing poems in both British and American Sign Language Mon, 22 September 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283271 This collection brings together some of Teun van Dijk's most important writing, framed by new Introductory material. Fri, 29 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305770 The very first book to look at sign language poetry, analysing poems in both British and American Sign Language Fri, 22 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.aila2008.org/ Visit the Palgrave Macmillan stand from Monday 25th to Wednesday 27th of August to receive special conference discounts on our titles! Wed, 20 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=303456 Marcel Danesi explores the discipline known as semiotics, which endeavours to understand reasons for the risky behaviours of the human species, and the human quest for meaning. Fri, 08 August 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280222 A collection of articles on lived experiences of learning and teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as accounted in narratives, produced by learners, teacher trainees and teachers. Mon, 28 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280346 Actual practitioners provide an in-depth and insightful look at a range of research methodologies employed in current language and gender study. Mon, 14 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277213 An original and timely study on the issue of men’s experiences of depression. Fri, 11 July 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280402 First book-length treatment of ‘emotion talk’ in four registers of British English to combine small and large-scale corpus studies of emotion terms and their patterns. Fri, 20 June 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280695 An examination of the language and cultural identities of different types of migrants living in a global city, London. Fri, 02 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280697 The first book to collect together work in the field of expertise in second language learning and teaching. Tue, 06 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=296452 The first ever book-length study of the full range of Grice's work. Wed, 07 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=296453 An analysis of conversation, discourse and written text about Alzheimer's speech. Thu, 08 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305766 A collection of cutting-edge studies on spoken language and applied linguistics written by leading teachers and researchers in the TESOL field. Fri, 09 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=305769 This new study reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275771 The first systematic, corpus-based, and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal documents. Tue, 22 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279141 A comparison of attitudes to empiricism in language study from the philosophy of language and from linguistics. Mon, 21 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280377 A new updated and expanded edition of a successful language textbook which gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure and the essentials of syntactic argument. Fri, 18 April 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276573 A close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America Mon, 31 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276474 An analysis of African American and Appalachian White Southern migrant vowel systems in Detroit. Fri, 07 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/pages/newweb/sample2/pierresav_en.asp?shownav=2#1 Winner of the 2008 Pierre Savard Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies Mon, 03 March 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=276474 An analysis of African American and Appalachian White Southern migrant vowel systems in Detroit examines the relationship between internal constraints on and external motivations for language change. Fri, 29 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=281076 A novel analysis of the structure of complex nouns in English. Fri, 15 February 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275768 In this highly original work an explanation for semantic and pragmatic effects of stress patterns is developed, formally specified and experimentally justified. Fri, 25 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277173 The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Mon, 21 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=269444 A cross-sectional study investigating a group of learners of English with respect to their declarative lexical knowledge and their processes in lexical inferencing and writing in both a first and second language Fri, 18 January 2008 10:30:00 +0000