Understanding Morphology, 2nd Edition

Title: Understanding Morphology
Author(s): Martin Haspelmath and Andrea D. Sims
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340950012
Date: 2010
Pages: 383
Size: 2.5 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. [+/-]

Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

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Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-1

Title: Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-1
Level: Grades K-1
Author(s): Anne L. Steele
Publisher: Frank Schaffer
ISBN: 9780742419575
Date: 2005
Pages: 82
Size: 2.70 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Based on national standards, No Child Left Behind legislation, and founded on the latest research, every teacher will be provided with instructional explanations and stimulating activities to facilitate and encourage life-long readers. Teacher tips help students auditorally recognize and identify phonemes.

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Mix & Match Meals

Title: Mix & Match Meals: Thousand of Menus for Quick Recipes and Crowd-Pleasing Meals
Author(s): Shannon Beatty, Rachel Bozek
Publisher: DK Readers
ISBN: 9780756682361
Date: 2011 
Pages: 194
Size: 10.70 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Making planning and cooking a three course meal a breeze, Mix and Match Mealsis an easy to use cookbook specially designed in a split page format so that any combination of foods can be viewed all together on one page. Divided into three sections Starters, Main Courses, and Desserts Mix and Match Mealsallows readers to flip through pages, creating their own customized menu one course at a time, with 270 recipes that provide hundreds of thousands of mouthwatering combinations. From healthy low fat meals, light brunch inspired menus, or indulgent, luxurious dinners, Mix and Match Mealsis perfect for cooks who are visual and prefer to plan a menu that is both aesthetic and appetizing.

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Growing Up with Literature, 6 Edition

Title: Growing Up with Literature
Author(s): Walter E. Sawyer, EdD
Publisher: Wadsworth
ISBN: 1111342652
Date: 2012, 6 Edition
Pages: 400
Size: 5.35 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

GROWING UP WITH LITERATURE, Sixth Edition, provides a practical and understandable presentation of how to use children's literature/picture books to enhance literacy and language development in children ages birth to eight years. You will learn effective strategies for selecting and evaluating books, planning reading experiences, sharing stories with children, and using stories to help children deal with stress and problems (bibliotherapy). All genres of literature are addressed, including ABC/Counting books, folk and fairy tales, fables, and traditional/contemporary fiction and nonfiction. With 200 new children's literature titles, and up-to-date research on language development and brain development, this edition is on the cutting edge of knowledge in this area.

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English as a Second Language

Title: English as a Second Language: Languages and Linguistics
Author(s): David J. Alonso
Publisher: Nova
ISBN: 9781611226133
Date: 2011
Pages: 207
Size: 1.59 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

English as a Second Language (ESL) education has gained an increasingly important role in career development in science, business, and industry on the global stage. Language teaching practice often assumes that most of the difficulties that learners face in the study of English are a consequence of the degree to which their native language differs from English. One great challenge for adult ESL learners is to reduce or eliminate 'foreign accent' in their English pronunciation. This book presents current research in the study of ESL, including brain plasticity and phonetic training in ESL; using authentic newspaper texts in teaching intermediate vocabulary in ESL learners; EFL/ESL teaching in China; and improving reading skills for ESL learners using SoundSpel.

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Linguistic Categorization, 2nd Edition

Title: Linguistic Categorization: Prototype in Linguistic Theory
Author(s): John R. Taylor
Publisher: Oxf
ISBN: 019870013X
Date: 1995, 2nd Edition
Pages: 165
Size: 42.6 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good, well-scanned, readable
Language: American English

This text explores the implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. It provides a readable introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics. For this edition, the author has added a further chapter which updates the book, particularly in its treatment of lexical semantics.

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Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution

Title: Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution
Author(s): Maggie Tallerman
ISBN: 0199279039
Date: 2005
Pages: 447
Size: 2.25 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. It does so from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and deploys the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has languages.

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Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Title: Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms: A Resource for Teacher Educators
Author(s): Tamara Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415997925
Date: 2011
Pages: 252
Size: 1.63 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English. This book is at the forefront in focusing exclusively on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers for this population of students. [+/-]

Part one provides the conceptual and contextual framework for the book, including a comprehensive discussion of relevant demographic trends and an analysis of national and state policies. Part two presents examples of initiatives in different institutional and geographic settings, highlighting three essential elements of teacher preparation: curriculum content, program design, and program coherence.

Meeting a pressing need among teacher educators left to figure out, largely by trial and error, how best to prepare non-specialist classroom teachers to work with ELLs, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information to help readers envision possibilities they can apply in their own settings.

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Words and Worlds: World Languages Review

Title: Words and Worlds: World Languages Review
Author(s): Fèlix Martí, Paul Ortega, Itziar Idiazabal and more
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 2005
Pages: 357
Size: 2.95 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: English

World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity that currently characterizes humanity, to evaluate trends towards linguistic uniformity, and to establish a set of guidelines or language planning measures that favour the weaker or more endangered linguistic communities, so that anyone engaged in language planning -government officials, institution leaders, researchers, and community members- can implement these measures.

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The Linguistics Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition

Title: The Linguistics Encyclopedia
Author(s): Kirsten Malmkjaer
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004, 2nd Edition
Pages: 687
Size: 4.79 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Linguistics Encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised and updated and a substantial new introduction, which forms a concise history of the field, has been added. The entries of the encyclopedia are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced, and include suggestions for further reading. [+/-]

New entries include:
• Applied Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Forensic Linguistics
• Contrastive Linguistics and Cross Linguistic Studies.

Substantially revised entries include:
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Genre analysis
• Psycholinguistics
• Language Acquisition
• Morphology
• Generative Phonology
• Grammatical models and theories
• Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis.

For anyone with an academic or professional interest in language, The Linguistics Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference tool.

About the Author
Dr Kirsten Malmkjaer is Curriculum Leader for the MA Theory and Practice of Translation at the University of Middlesex.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Politics

Title: The Language of Politics
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Adrian Beard
Publisher: Routledge
Date: December 1999
Pages: 134
Size: 2.12 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Language of Politics:
• examines how both politicians and commentators describe political stances
• explores some of the most common linguistic features to be found in political speeches
• analyses electioneering through various written texts including manifestos, posters and pamphlets
• looks at how politicians answer questions both in the media and in parliament
• includes examples of political discourse from Britain, America and Australia
• has a comprehensive glossary of terms. [+/-]

About the author
Adrian Beard is Head of English at Gosforth High School in Newcastleupon-Tyne and Principal Moderator at the Northern Examining and Assessment Board for A-Level English Literature. His previous publications include The Language of Sport (1998) for the INTERTEXT series.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Websites

Title: The Language of Websites
Level: Intertext
Author(s): Mark Boardman
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004
Pages: 133
Size: 7.14 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. [+/-]

The Language of Websites:
• explores the ways in which websites use and present language
• covers many different types of web-based interaction, from buying online and auction sites, to search engines, email links and chatrooms
• considers the structures of language online, such as audience interaction and how hypertext alters narrative structure
• features a full glossary, which assumes very little prior knowledge and
includes linguistic, ICT and media terminology
• is accompanied by a supporting website at http://markboardman.com

About the Author
Mark Boardman is Head of Media at South Craven School, Keighley, Yorkshire, UK. He is an experienced teacher, having taught Advanced English Language, English Literature and Media Studies for many years and has been a Senior Examiner. He also founded and runs The English Language List, an email discussion and support group for teachers of English Language.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Humour

Title: The Language of Humour
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Alison Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 1998
Pages: 129
Size: 1.43 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Language of Humour:
• examines the ways that humour is created in both spoken and written language
• explores the relationship between humour and social attitudes; the status of the targets of humour, the joke tellers and the audience
• focuses on the social aspects of humour, and asks what it contributes to current debates on ‘political correctness’ and censorship [+/-]

• analyses a rich variety of humorous text examples, from the classics of Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde to the contemporary sketches of French and Saunders, Eddie Izzard, Victoria Wood, Reeves and Mortimer, the cartoons of Gary Larson, and the sitcom Friends

About the author
Alison Ross is a visiting lecturer at Leeds University and Sheffield Hallam University. She is a senior examiner and moderator for the NEAB English Language A Level.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Children

Title: The Language of Children
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Julia Gillen
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2003
Pages: 112
Size: 2.40 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. [+/-]

The Language of Children:
• focuses on the language produced by children, and includes a wide variety of authentic data, from records of children’s first words to emails
• introduces the student to ways of analysing data, from multimodal texts to transcripts of talk during play
• explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities, including deaf and bilingual children
• reviews key theories of language acquisition
• provides a historical overview of the subject
• is user-friendly and accessible, and provides a full glossary
• suggests significant sources for further study

About the author
Julia Gillen is a Lecturer in Applied Language Studies at the Open University, UK.

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Intertext Series: The Language and Region

Title: The Language and Region
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Joan C. Beal
Publisher: Routledge
Date: April 2006
Pages: 131
Size: 1.15 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

Language and Region:
• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
• outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar [+/-]

Affording hands-on practical experience of textual analysis, this book is essential reading for students of English language studies.

About the author
Joan C. Beal is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in dialectology and the recent history of English.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Magazines

Title: The Language of Magazines
Level: A-Level and beginning undergraduate students
Author(s): Linda McLoughlin
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2000
Pages: 160
Size: 9.41 Mb
Format: .html
Quality: High
Language: British English

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge INTERTEXT series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced teacher, it combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the series core textbook, Working with Texts: A core book for language analysis. [+/-]

Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, The Language of Magazines:
• shows how linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions are used by magazines to capture our attention
• examines how image and text combine to produce meaning
• discusses how ideological messages are conveyed
• analyses how gender is constructed through language
• looks at how magazines relate to culture
• explores a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Bliss, Diva, FHM, Sugar and Viz

About the author
Linda McLoughlin is a part-time lecturer in English Language at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has designed and taught BA and MA courses in English Language, specialising in language and gender.

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Intertext Series: The Language of Drama

Title: The Language of Drama
Series: Intertext
Author(s): Keith Sanger
Series: Intertext
Publisher: Routledge
Date: August 2000
Pages: 113
Size: 2.65 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

This book is about the critical strategies that can be used to understand the dynamic processes involved in writing, reading, analysis, rehearsal, production, and reception of drama in both the classroom and the professional theater. [+/-]

The Language of Drama:
• applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays, ranging from Shakespeare to Stoppard, Coronation Street to The Archers
• is written in a clear, user-friendly style by a practising teacher
• is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned artwork by a Viz cartoonist
• combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further activities

About the Author
Keith Sanger is Lecturer in English and Drama at New College (VI Form), Pontefract, and a team leader for AQA A-Level English Language.

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Blooming English

Title: Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English language
Author(s): Kate Burridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0521548328
Date: 2004
Pages: 247
Size: 1.24 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

English is a most creative, changeable and imaginative language. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old. Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with it, creating everything from puns, riddles and secret languages to wonderful prose and poetry. We also worry about it a great deal, looking up and checking words in dictionaries and usage guides, and arguing about definitions. [+/-]

This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts. It is a book for browsing, for finding intriguing snippets about language, history and social customs, and a formidable weapon in word games.

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TRUE TO FORM: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

Title: TRUE TO FORM: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
Author(s): Christine Gunlogson
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2003
Pages: 117
Size: 2.36 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences: 1) It's raining? 2) It's raining. The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall. Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements, namely declarative sentence type and rising versus falling intonation. [+/-]

Gunlogson supports that claim through an investigation of the use of declaratives as questions. On one hand, Gunlogson demonstrates that rising and falling declaratives share an aspect of conventional meaning attributable to their declarative form, distinguishing them both from the corresponding polar interrogative (Is it raining?) and constraining their use as questions. On the other hand, since (1) and (2) constitute a minimal pair, differing only in intonation, systematic differences in character and function between them--in particular, the relative "naturalness" of (1) as a question compared to (2) --must be located in the contrast between the fall and the rise.

To account for these two sets of differences, Gunlogson gives a compositional account of rising and falling declaratives under which declarative form expresses commitment to the propositional content of the declarative. Rising versus falling intonation on declaratives is responsible for attribution of the commitment to the Addressee versus the Speaker, respectively. The result is an inherent contextual "bias" associated with declaratives, which constitutes the crucial point of difference with interrogatives. The compositional analysis is implemented in the framework of context update semantics (Heim 1982 and others), using an articulated version of the Common Ground (Stalnaker 1978) that distinguishes the commitments of the individual discourse participants.

Restrictions on the use of declaratives as questions, as well as differences between rising and falling declaratives as questions, are shown to follow from this account. Gunlogson argues that neither rising nor falling declaratives are inherently questioning--rather, the questioning function of declaratives arises through the interaction of sentence type, intonation, and context.

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Word-Formation in English: Textbooks in Linguistics

Title: Word-Formation in English: Textbooks in Linguistics
Author(s): Ingo Plag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2002
Pages: 265
Size: 1.34 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This textbook provides an accessible int roduction to the study of word-formation, focussing specifically on English. Assuming no prior Linguistic knowledge, Ingo Plag explains the fundamentals of word-formation, showing how morphemes - the elements of a word's internal structure - can function both to relate words to other words, and to create new words. [+/-]

Students are encouraged to undertake their own morphological analyses of English words, and are familiarised with the methodological tools to obtain and analyse relevant data. Word-Formation in English will be welcomed by all students of English Language and Linguistics.

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