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		<title>The Linguistics of Speech</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language features, the importance of regional and social proximity to shared linguistic production, and differential frequency as a key factor in linguistic production both in regional and social groups and in text corpora. The study shows how this new linguistics of speech does not reject rules in favour of language use, or reject language use in favour of rules; rather, it shows how rules can come from language as people use it. Written in a clear, engaging style and containing invaluably accessible introductions to complex theoretical concepts, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, dialectology and corpus linguistics. • The first book to discuss and develop a theory of context • Offers a new socio-cognitive theory of context by demonstrating that communication depends on and influences the context • Presents a vast, multidisciplinary account of many earlier studies on situations and contexts]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy is a culmination of a project that has taken nearly eleven years to complete. It began in response to the findings from a survey to our college students on their reading habits and their reading histories. Manga was repeatedly raised as something they were currently reading and had read since childhood. As teachers of reading and writing, we posed the following question: How does our students’ manga literacy relate to other literacies? We also asked: What kind of skills do they possess that we are ignoring? Would a better understanding of these skills help students transfer this knowledge to other areas? Prompted by these questions, we began our project.]]></description>
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