N.B. Small amount of pencil annotation. Previous owners inscription crossed out to ffep. Corners slightly creased. 216pp.
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0198720823

Inventory #27055

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.91 approx. - € 5.87 approx.)

This introductory book considers the question "What is sociolinguistics?", and explains sociolinguistic concepts through a wide range of examples. It draws from both 'classic' approaches to the subject as well as from more recent research, introducing terms like 'code-switching' and 'social dialect'. It is conveniently divided into three sections. In the first, Janet Holmes shows how language is used in multilingual speech communities and explains how and why languages change within society and highlights the factors that lead to the displacement of one language by another, and sometimes the death of a language. The central section gives a comprehensive and well-illustrated exploration of social reasons for language change, exploring language change in monolingual communities and the features of a variety of dialects. The author shows how and why differing racial and social groups develop and maintain speech variations. In the final section, Janet Holmes assesses how attitudes to language affect speech and shows that linguistic responses depend upon a variety of contextual factors - for example, the status of the person being addressed and our reasons for speaking. Our attitudes to language have strong implications for our community. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics describes how language usage reflects the values of society, how society's view of women is reflected in language and how women are linguistically more polite than men. 412pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep.
Longman, 1997, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Nineth Impression. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0582060621

Inventory #26684

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.86 approx. - € 8.81 approx.)

Describes how conversation works, providing a systematic and exhaustive account of the structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a conversation. It is illustrated throughout with excerpts from genuine conversation and contains numerous exercises with suggested answers based on conversations in the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation. 238pp. N.B. EX LIBRARY. Reference Only Sticker to front cover. Corners slightly bumped and creased. University LIbrary Stamp to half title page.
Longman, 1996, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Second Impression. Ex Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0582071305

Inventory #29027

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.86 approx. - € 8.81 approx.)

In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen studies by scholars in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface, covering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. The papers address the following topics: event arguments and thematic argument structure; the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions; events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates; the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations, the mass/count distinction, and propositional attitudes. 381pp.Volume 70 in Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Series.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0792349407

Inventory #14779

Price: £ 70.00 GBP ($ 110.67 approx. - € 82.18 approx.)

This book aims to synthesize research from a number of related disciplines, including social psychology, communication science, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. It begins with an examination of theoretical issues, and proceeds to a consideration of actual contexts where language and social forces interact. These contexts bear on matters such as ethnolinguistic identity, bilingualism, health and ageing. 244pp. N.B. HIGHLIGHTING throughout. Reading crease to spine. Annotations throughout.
Open University Press, 1991, Paperback, Book Condition: Poor/Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 033509872X

Inventory #29023

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.91 approx. - € 5.87 approx.)

This volume is one of the four readers compiled as part of the course Language and Literacy (Code E825), which is one module of the (UK) Open University MA in Education programme. The collection of papers in this volume is the outcome of a collaboration between two editors: the first a linguist and the second a researcher in media studies. The papers reflect the growing convergence of the two disciplines in their treatment of the text. Analyses of film and television have for some time drawn on linguistics theory - particularly the structuralist model of language provided by Saussure. More recently, linguists have themselves developed and turned their attention to the kinds of text which pervade everyday life, and that has at last generated more principled accounts of the interaction between words and image, and more generally of the interplay and tension between verbal and non-verbal modes of meaning. This anthology is thus concerned with the complex ways in which texts communicate: at how the verbal and visual element of texts can be theorized within a linguistic framework; and at postmodern approaches which strive to "decanter" the text itself and explore the historical social contexts of their production and consumption. The collection should be of wide interest to students and researchers in linguistics, media studies, and communication. 282pp.
The Open University and Multilingual Matters Ltd, 1993, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1853592196

Inventory #26675

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.86 approx. - € 8.81 approx.)

"Predicates and their Subjects" is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic constraint that clauses (small and tensed) are constructed out of a one-place unsaturated expression, the predicate, which must be applied to a syntactic argument, its subject. The author shows that this predication relation cannot be reduced to a thematic relation or a projection of argument structure, but must be a purely syntactic constraint. Chapters in the book show how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. The second half of the book extends the theory of predication to cover copular constructions; it includes an account of the structure of small clauses in Hebrew, of the use of 'be' in predicative and identity sentences in English, and concludes with a study of the meaning of the verb 'be'. 349pp.Volume 74 in the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Series.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0792364090

Inventory #14794

Price: £ 80.00 GBP ($ 126.48 approx. - € 93.92 approx.)

362pp.
University of London and the Athlone Press, 1975, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #27624

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 19.76 approx. - € 14.68 approx.)

Using a blend of statistical analysis with field survery among native Irish speakers, Reg Hindley explores the reasons for the decline of the Irish language and investigates the relationships between geographical environment and language retention. He puts Irish into a broader European context as a European minority language, and assesses its present position and prospects. 335pp. N.B. Head and tail of spine and corners of covers slightly bumped.
Routledge, 1990, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0415064813

Inventory #27618

Price: £ 20.00 GBP ($ 31.62 approx. - € 23.48 approx.)

Label and small tear on front paste down. Three tears to D/J plus chipping to head and tail of D/J spine. 256pp.
Phoenix House, 1954, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #22720

Price: £ 6.00 GBP ($ 9.49 approx. - € 7.04 approx.)