Linguistics

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown...

This book examines language and identity in modern Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. How is language used in Egypt...

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Translation studies: Cognitive linguistics and corpora – Marcel Thelen: Translation studies: Terminology ...

Tackling theoretical approaches including Construction Grammar and the Minimalist Program, this volume focuses on processes and phenomena. Each cha...

This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolutio...

This is a theory of diachronic change based on studies of language acquisition. This monograph addresses diachronic change of languages in terms of...

This wide-ranging dictionary contains definitions for more than 5,000 words, phrases and sentences from every major dialect of Embosi language. It ...

This is an introductory guide for students of Arabic language, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic socio-linguistics. New for this edition: a...

The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-met...

«This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. Identity is central...

The volume consists of reprints of papers originally published between 1967 and 2009, divided into two parts, only apparently devoted to two differ...

This book discusses a class of Reduced Constructions which exhibit both mono- and bi-clausal characteristics. In Spanish, as well as other Romance ...

First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds...

How learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense. Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best stud...

This volume comprises papers from the third half time conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 8.5 which took place in November 2010 in Br...

This is a volume of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics held in Warsaw on ...

This book provides a detailed overview of functional and pragmatic approaches to the study of language in use. Edited by three scholars in the fiel...

Natural language understanding is central to the goals of artificial intelligence. Any truly intelligent machine must be capable of carrying on a c...

Black South African English, the variety of English used by mother-tongue speakers of South Africa’s indigenous languages, has received considerabl...

The book presents a collection of papers in English, French and German, which touch on a wide variety of cultural, political, and educational ramif...

In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and p...

This book is intended for readers who go beyond universal models of translation. Working from Galicia to the rest of Europe and the United States, ...

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understan...