Linguistics

This book is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of the National Adult Literacy Programme (NALP) in Malawi. It highlights the significance of e...

The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of global...

Originally published in 1985. Detailed exploration of the dynamics of language within social psychology forms a social psychology of language which...

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of r...

Neste libro faise unha caracterización do verbo, xustifícanse as análises morfolóxicas do paradigma regular, dos verbos de irregularidade común e d...

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study presents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional no...

Im vorliegenden Band werden die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dies be...

Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previou...

Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional...

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic trad...

This book is the first monographic study on forms of address in Polish-English subtitling from a multidisciplinary perspective. It departs from a c...

From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the m...

Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. ...

This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Qu...

In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. T...

This volume comprises 17 papers that are dealing with European pluricentric languages where there are some issues of contact and conflict. An overv...

The origins of this volume lie in the international conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012, convened by the Polish Cognitive Linguistics...

Comprehensive and evidence-based, this book presents the best practices for designing and sustaining study abroad programs to maximize the outcomes...

Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and their Craft (1989) and, like Me...

This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech comm...

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces ...

Published in 1998, this book argues that in recent decades, Anglo-American philosophy of language has been captivated by the idea that the key to p...

This collective monograph represents a selection of the contributions presented at the "1st International Symposium on Italian-Ukrainian Contrastiv...

In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature ...