A complete, example-rich guide for students on developing their own full, working constructed language. Containing over 70 end-of-chapter exercises for testing understanding and building a conlang, as well as advanced material sections, it is ideal for both undergraduates taking courses in the subject and anyone wanting to get into conlanging.

How to do Multimodal Analysis bridges theory and practice in multimodal research. It showcases diverse analytical approaches across educational and professional settings. Essential for postgraduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, communication, and media studies.

How to do Multimodal Analysis bridges theory and practice in multimodal research. It showcases diverse analytical approaches across educational and professional settings. Essential for postgraduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, communication, and media studies.

This volume contains the late J.L. Austin's examination of his distinction of performative utterances from statements, and his subsequent theory of "illocutionary forces" of utterances. It is a revised version of his famous William James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University.

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This book offers an answer to the question, "Why are Presidential debates so bad?" The answer could be that the Commission on Presidential Debates ruined them, or it could be that we don't really know how to watch or judge a debate.

This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly principles.

This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly principles.

This concise volume spotlights an innovative computer-aided approach to linguistic analyses of HPV vaccination discourse on Twitter.

This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts.