In Other Words has been the definitive coursebook for students studying translation for
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The Functional Analysis of English is an introduction to the analysis and description of
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Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional
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In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
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Argues that the semantic structure of texts can be described both at the local microlevel and
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To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need
first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in …

Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E.
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Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its
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Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES
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