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David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates the added communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar.

O'Grady reviews the...

A dip-in resource that offers readers easy access to the jargon and specialist terms of phonology and phonetics. The book provides cross-referenced definitions of 136 key concepts that underpin these two disciplines. It is the perfect reference tool for native and non-native English speakers studying Language and Linguistics.

The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned systemic functional linguistics (SFL) scholars to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday s Introduction to Functional Grammar, Martin s discourse semantics and Fawcett s Cardiff Grammar.

In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole...

The moving story of a stateless man living life without an identity.

A biography about the implications of having no passport, no nationality and no rights, and belonging nowhere.

Some 10 million people around the world are stateless. With no birth certificate, Kamal Kojadin was in that very position, having fled Croatia with his parents in May 1945. The family managed to build a new life, but time and again they were forced to flee. After the death of his parents Kamal returned to Yugoslavia, and it was only then that he really started to feel the...