Linguistics

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible i...

The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since the...

The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It is the first application of C...

Nominals examines and evaluates inflectional patterns for unproblematic nouns, adjectives, pronouns and demonstratives. The section on suffixal der...

This book is the first monograph on interpreting issues related to Taiwan Sign Language (TSL). TSL is the language used amongst deaf communities in...

In Spike Lees Do the Right Thing, African American character Mookie throws a rubbish bin through the window of the pizzeria he works for, which is ...

This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in c...

This book presents a synchronic study on the applicability and the acceptability of the passive and three impersonal constructions in Polish (-no/-...

The Philosophical Transactions and the letters preserved in the Royal Societys archives provide precious insights into the making of science and th...

Fear seems to be at the heart of both present-day and past forms of anger, an anger that is produced in and by discourse and in and through transla...

This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the a...

In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul ...

Collocations are especially needed for translators, especially in the final phase of production of the target language text. This book proposes an ...

This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that...

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at...

Theres No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate...

This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with...