Linguistics

The linguistic situation in Guangxi is poorly known among Western linguistic circles. This book is a reference grammar of Pinghua the oldest Sinit...

This work applies the concept of chaîne opératoire to the discourses that surround artifacts by examining the history, evaluation, and interpretati...

Emoji is everywhereon messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and printed ads. While there is a ...

Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of ...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics, written in an engaging and accessible style for a ne...

This Element provides an overview of structural priming research across the three main populations on which experimental priming studies have conce...

This Element provides an overview of structural priming research across the three main populations on which experimental priming studies have conce...

Sinitic is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of thousands of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intell...

This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching internationa...

A systematic study of information dynamics that extends beyond what is found in standard logic textbooks. Everything we do is driven by information...

Does there exist a form of speech so powerful as to allow the speaker to control the listener, taking over their thoughts and even the...

Wonderful . . . Endlessly interesting and beautifully written DAILY TELEGRAPH Steady-headed and fun SUNDAY TIMESRead this book and, I promise, youl...

Practising French Grammar, fifth edition, offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French as it is s...

Practising French Grammar, fifth edition, offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French as it is s...

Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, f...

Power, Culture, and Family-School Relations: Towards Culturally Sustaining Practices explores the extent to which common practices in school-based ...

This monograph is a study on the feature inheritance hypothesis (Chomsky 2008). Following previous collaborative work with Chao-Ting Tim Chou, Gera...

This book enriches the mind of the read regarding the topics covered, provided that the given guidelines are followed systematically, by conveying ...

This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts....

This book is the first overview of Romanian political discourse, analysing samples of various political discourse genres (parliamentary and preside...

This book delves into the multifaceted concept of translanguaging, offering a comprehensive examination from its foundational theories to its pract...

Affectivity is essential in language learning and new ways of studying it must be considered. In this volume, the authors bring together two partic...

Spoken by millions of people on four continents, Portuguese remains a lesser studied language. To help improve the linguistic understanding of this...

Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or expressed differently to determin...