Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tony mcenery

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  • CORPUS-BASED CONTRASTIVE STUDIES OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE
    TONY MCENERY / RICHARD XIAO
    This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic contrast of English and Ch...

    $1,560.00

  • SWEARING IN ENGLISH
    TONY MCENERY
    Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language. Drawing on a va...

    $1,320.00

  • HISTORICAL MEDICAL DISCOURSE
    GAVIN BROOKES, NIALL CURRY, TONY MCENERY, AND EMMA PUTLAND
    This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse. The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical know...

    $1,240.00