Linguistics

Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing n...

This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological ap...

This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological ap...

In the Asia-Pacific, thirty-eight jurisdictions have adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. This book looks at how...

Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language ...

How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence acc...

Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect contact Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of th...

Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific s...

This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by ...

This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by ...

Deception is omnipresent throughout the evolution of life, inseparable from the development of various modes of communication. By effectively manip...