Linguistics

This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Ea...

This book is an attempt to reconstruct, in the context of Polish and European history and culture, the picture of Europe and European integration p...

Die 2011 neugegründete Innsbrucker Konferenzserie TRANSLATA wurde mit einer überwältigenden internationalen Beteiligung von Translatologen aus alle...

Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is an international Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, prolific author, and the founder of the secular Soka kindergartens, elem...

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theor...

This book analyses three phenomena of Romance Morphology. The first is event nominalization in modern European Spanish and Portuguese and the role ...

Ryszard Kapuściński was a direct witness to the creation and a collapse of numerous independent African states, the guerilla movements in South Ame...

The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive li...

De nombreux enfants dans le monde sont scolarisés dans plusieurs langues. Cet ouvrage explore plusieurs exemples d’éducation multilingue et plurili...

This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology....

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on...

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they c...

In recent work the imperative seems to have attracted much less attention than the interrogative, perhaps because it appears to be a rather simple ...

The volume is a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Foreign Influences on Medieval English held in Warsaw on 12-13 Dec...

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

Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functiona...

What does it mean to teach reading in the context of the middle and high school classroom? Don’t students already know how to read by the time they...

The book’s principal argument is that the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be systematically us...

The book aims to show how the tenets of the cognitive theory of metonymy can benefit the lexicographic representation of metonymic lexemes, so that...

This collaborative book has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, the authors present a new framework – Radical Minimalism. The development of such a...

This book is a discourse-pragmatic study of media language in news headlines and leads. News is viewed as discourse in action largely influenced by...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study...

Definitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the other that languag...

The book offers a general and up-to-date overview of the wider discipline of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), including practices such as accessibili...