Proto- Polynesian Word List I by D S Walsh; Bruce Biggs
$85.00 NZD
Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand English by Allan Bell (ed.); Koenraad Kuiper (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand English is a significant landmark in our knowledge of this country's language. It offers major theoretical contributions and new approaches to the wider study of language variation, change and development. New Zealand's distinctive variety of the English language, which is closely bound u ...Show more
Speak by Tore Janson
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. This book shows how languages change their meaning, shape, and sounds, and how the history of languages is intimately linked to the history of people.
Linguistics in Oceania - Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 8 in 2 volumes by Thomas Sebeok (ed.)
$120.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
Words On Words - Quotations about Language and Languages by David Crystal
$25.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
A thematically structured dictionary of quotations relating to all aspects of language. Ranging from Wilde to Wordsworth and James Bond to Winnie-the-Pooh, 65 sections bring together the wise, witty and whimsical insights from over the years.
Pragmatics by Yan Huang
$25.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new ...Show more
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by and co-constructed for both patients and doctors (p ...Show more
Novantiqua: Rhetorics as a Contemporary Theory by Paolo Valesio
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Series: Advances in Semiotics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." --Quarterly Journal of SpeechA remarkable book... sure to be of lasting interest... to be reckoned with by all rhetorical theorists." --ChoiceThis is the first contemporary attempt at a holistic theory of rhetoric, well grounded in the ...Show more