Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the...
Take Control Of Your Profits Pizza turn around guru Paul Baker dares you to examine your pizzerias operations and find the seven things that are eating away at ...
Beat The Pants Off Your Competition! Here it is: the secretive underground strategies that 99% of pizzeria owners don't know about that will give you the "launc...
Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, ma...
Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexico...
The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling the swift analysis of millions of word...
byPaul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano
How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplin...
Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British...
Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological ...
This Element explores approaches to locating and examining social identity in corpora with and without the aid of demographic metadata. This is a key concern in...
When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New Wor...
Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words ...
This book builds on Baker and Egbert’s previous work on triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistics and takes triangulation one step further...
The upcoming Java 9 module system will affect existing applications and offer new ways of creating modular and maintainable applications. With this hands-on boo...
If you're an experienced Java developer in the enterprise, this practical, hands-on book shows you how to use OSGi to design, develop, and deploy modular cloud ...