Children S Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home

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Textbook round-up Languages and linguistics Extra listings to be appended to Languages and linguistics section of 28 May textbook round-up

Children’s Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home Editors Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth Edition First Publisher Continuum Pages 336 Price £75.00 and £24.99 ISBN 9780826495167 and 5174 This is an accessible survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities. It explains concisely and clearly why educators, health specialists, government bodies and politicians need to understand the importance of these differences for children’s social and linguistic development, particularly in relation to education and social policy.

A Critical Introduction to Phonetics Author Ken Lodge Edition First Publisher Continuum Pages 264 Price £75.00 and £24.99 ISBN 9780826488732 and 8749 This provides a new stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics, using examples drawn from a wide range of languages. It introduces the key aspects of phonetics, examining the difference between speech and writing, the physiology of speech production, basic and detailed articulation and acoustic phonetics. It is also a practical guide to transcriptions from sound recordings and has a section on applications of phonetics to fields of study such as language variation and accent.

McGraw-Hill’s French Student Dictionary for your iPod (MP3 CD-Rom and guide) Author Jacqueline Winders Edition First Publisher McGraw-Hill Pages 8 Price £7.92 ISBN 9780071591980 Users can customise the program to fill their needs and create a playlist of troublesome words. It gives one-click access to 3,500 essential words and their pronunciations.

The Essential Halliday Author M.A.K. Halliday Editor Jonathan J. Webster Edition First Publisher Continuum Pages 480 Price £75.00 and £24.99 ISBN 9780826495341 and 5358 A thorough survey of Halliday’s published work across five decades, this contains selected articles by him on the core areas of systemic functional linguistics. The reader includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross-references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest.

The Big Red Book of Spanish Grammar with CD-ROM Author Dora del Carmen Vargas Edition First Publisher McGraw-Hill Pages 480 Price £13.91 ISBN 9780071547581 Following in the tradition of the bestselling The Big Red Book of Spanish Verbs, this book gives immediate answers to questions about Spanish grammar. It is comprehensive without having the overwhelming presence of a classroom textbook. The focus of the exercises is to improve practical communication. The CD-Rom (PC only) also includes engaging exercises that provide cultural context to give a full picture of the Spanish- speaking world.

Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese Authors Chih-p’ng Chou, Wei Wang, Joanne Chiang Edition First Publisher Princeton University Press Pages 352 Price £28.95 ISBN 9780691131092 Most Chinese-language textbooks today cater for beginners and intermediate-level students, but few address the unique needs of advanced students seeking to expand or reinforce their language skills in one semester. This book fills this gap through the use of critically acclaimed Chinese films while also broadening students’ knowledge of China.

Latin Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Author Richard Prior Edition First Publisher McGraw-Hill Pages 400 Price £12.99 ISBN 9780071477277 Beginning with an overview of Latin, basic pronunciation rules and a discussion on the differences between inflected and analytical languages, it covers key grammar fundamentals such as nouns, verb forms and syntax.

Say It Right in Arabic Author EPLS (Easily Pronounced Language Systems) Edition First Publisher McGraw-Hill Pages 176 Price £5.99 ISBN 9780071544580 The innovative teachers at Easily Pronounced Language Systems (EPLS) have created a revolutionary pronunciation system: easy-to-read vowel symbols that, when combined with consonants, read in a straightforward manner, rather than in transliteration jargon to eliminate common Arabic pronunciation mistakes.

Salve! International Edition with Audio CD Author Carla Larese Riga Edition First Publisher Cengage Pages 368 Price £37.99 ISBN 9780495800514 Using a unique interactive approach, this provides a thorough but focused introduction to Italian language and culture. The text employs a manageable building-block method, introducing the structures of the language through easy-to-understand dialogue and narrative, repetition of essential vocabulary and activities that encourage creative expression in real-life contents. A full range of integrated support materials is also available, including video filmed in Italy and extensive online tools such as music and film.

Voilá! An Introduction to French with Audio CD Authors L. Kathy Heilenman, Isabelle Kaplan, Claude Toussaint Edition Sixth Publisher Cengage Pages 592 Price £39.99 ISBN 9780495797609 This is a user-friendly introductory programme that allows students to communicate meaningfully in French while encouraging them to interact with and respond to French and francophone cultures and literatures. Renowned for its balance and integration of language learning and culture, it continues to emphasise skills acquisition through progressive vocabulary and grammar activities, integrated culture, authentic spoken French and literature. ¡Dimelo Tú! A Complete Course with Audio CD Authors Francisco Rodriguez Nogales, Fabián A. Samaniego, Thomas J. Blommers Edition Sixth Publisher Cengage Pages 624 Price £39.99 ISBN 9780495800149 This is a communication-driven programme designed to help students develop competency in Spanish by allowing them to interact among themselves and with their instructors on a daily basis. The competency approach challenges students to arrive at an understanding of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures by tapping into knowledge they already have and applying it to what they are learning. This new edition features an enhanced cultural focus, extensive multimedia integration with strong ties to authentic and personal Web 2.0 content.

The Origins and Development of the English Language Author John Algeo Edition Sixth Publisher Cengage Pages 368 Price £33.99 ISBN 9781428231481 The author focuses on coherence and clarity of presentation and enables students to understand difficult concepts easily. The book offers a thorough history of English from its beginning to today and the internal history of English from a linguistic-analysis viewpoint focusing on the linguistic facts of historical change in vocabulary, grammar, and sounds.

Discourse and Power Author Teun A. van Dijk Edition First Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Pages 320 Price £55.00 and £18.99 ISBN 9780230574083 and 4090 Power and domination in society is a timely and relevant subject, touching on issues of racism and media control. Teun van Dijk is one of the founders of critical-discourse studies, and this collection brings together some of his most important writing, framed by new introductory material. He examines the role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination in society and the ways in which media and political elites control access to public discourse.

English Literary Stylistics Author Christiana Gregoriou Edition First Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Pages 216 Price £49.50 and £16.99 ISBN 9780230525436 and 5412 This guide introduces students to the language of literary texts and explores stylistic theoretical perspectives. Stylistics is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, with many literature degrees now incorporating stylistic study. The ten-part structure and design of this book make it ideal for accompanying a ten-week stylistics undergraduate module. It provides worked examples on the stylistics of each genre, enabling students to engage with practical stylistic analyses.

Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media Author Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Edition First Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Pages 248 Price £49.50 and £16.99 ISBN 9781403934284 and 4291 What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around four key features of the current broadcast landscape (story-telling, closeness, conflict and persuasion), this book examines the specific forms and structures of talk across media genres as varied as reality shows and political interviews.

The New Sociolinguistics Reader Editors Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski Edition First Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Pages 752 Price £64.99 and £24.99 ISBN 9781403944146 and 4153 This is a comprehensive collection of key readings in modern sociolinguistics. The book provides the most up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, bringing together many of the most important new ideas and debates in the field. It contains many newly commissioned texts by leading scholars and develops critical perspectives on established research. It covers a wide-ranging analysis of language, discourse, society, culture and identity. It includes helpful introductions to each of the six, distinctive sections. This indispensable volume complements the original Sociolinguistics Reader and brings together many of the discipline’s most influential authors and texts.

Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage Author Miho Choo with Hye-Young Kwak Edition First Publisher Cambridge University Press Pages 336 Price: £18.99 ISBN: 978 0521667883 This focuses on how Korean language is used in different situations with extensive examples to illustrate authentic and natural speech. It has clear explanations that are accessible to students with no training in language analysis. It highlights those areas of vocabulary and grammar that cause the most difficulty to English speakers. Clear, readable and easy to consult, it is essential for all those who wish to take their Korean beyond the beginner's level.

World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties Author Rajend Mesthrie and Rakesh M. Bhatt Edition First Publisher Cambridge University Press Pages 296 Price £18.99 ISBN 978 0521797337 The spread of English around the world continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. This book deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East Asia. It provides a historical overview of the common circumstances that gave rise to these varieties and a detailed account of their recurrent similarities in structure, patterns of usage, vocabulary and accents.

Pragmatics and Grammar Author Mira Ariel Edition First Publisher Cambridge University Press Pages 364 Price £60.00 and £23.99 ISBN 978 0521550185 and 9942 When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.

Phi-Theory: Phi-Features across Modules and Interfaces Authors Daniel Harbour, David Adger, Susana Bejar Edition First Publisher Oxford University Press Pages 320 Price £70.00 and £25.99 ISBN 9780199213764 and 3771 Phi-features, such as person, number and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields. This volume is the first to attempt to bring together these different strands and styles of research. It presents the core questions, major results and new directions of this emergent area of linguistic theory and shows how Phi theory casts light on the nature of interfaces and the structure of the grammar.

Bare Syntax Author Cedric Boeckx Edition First Publisher Oxford University Press Pages 256 Price £70.00 and £22.99 ISBN 9780199534234 and 4241 This important contribution to the minimalist programme offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system.