Linguistics

SLA Research and Materials Development for Language Learning is the only book available to focus on the interaction between second language acquisi...

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to ...

This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first se...

The question of how language relates to the world is one of the most important problems of philosophy. What the word `God' refers to and the questi...

Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in trans...

This book provides one perspective on how Applied Linguistics has been defined and how the field of Applied Linguistics has developed over the last...

This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though s...

This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in...

The book offers a view of national self-identification in the literary culture of twentieth century Romania with a special focus on the postcolonia...

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigatio...

This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraici...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This study focuses on the Japanese particle ...

Incremental Conceptualization for Language Production discusses the simultaneous actions involved in thinking and speaking, as well as the piecemea...

This book is a collection of articles covering the theme of interaction. Interaction combines two crucial elements: the intrapersonal and the inter...

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günth...

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments -- familial, local community, and broader cul...

The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging ...

This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge...

This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. ...

Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historica...

Reflective Dialogue presents professional educators with the necessary background and skills to engage in reflective dialogue with language learner...

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

This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understa...