Linguistics

This companion offers a unique introductory study of linguistics in India. Well supplemented with sample problems and linguistic puzzles to bolster...

Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detail...

Expanding the scope of the metadiscourse construct, Ho offers a comprehensive analysis of the online review response genre using hotel managers' re...

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of vie...

Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing con...

"Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents constructing the nation as potentially in dang...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in thi...

First published in 1992, Narrative Exchanges shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined to deal with the complexities of n...

This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics,...

Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect o...

This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the ‘Aha moment’: that fam...

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies ...

Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a politi...

How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permea...

This book is a user-friendly resource that prepares teachers to meet the needs of linguistically, culturally, geographically and educationally dive...

The premise of this volume is a question: What can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? Minority is understood h...