Linguistics

In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the ways in which identities, discourses, and topographies of both capitalist and anti-capitalist imaginar...

Moving beyond the expectations and processes of conventional teacher evaluation, this book provides a framework for teacher evaluation that better ...

This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It represents an interface between li...

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various syste...

Offering diverse and wide-ranging perspectives on gender, sexualities, and literacies, this volume examines the intersection of these topics from p...

It's been more than fifty years since Harold Garfinkel created the field of ethnomethodology--a discipline that offers a new way of understanding h...

This book explores literary translation in a variety of contexts. The chapters showcase the research into literary translation in North America, Eu...

This book examines storymaking processes in K-8 classrooms from a social-semiotic perspective that highlights how participants' discourse influence...

Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel ana...

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting cont...

This impressive volume contains the edited proceedings of a symposium held in honor of Isabelle Y. Liberman, whose teaching and writings laid the f...

The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspectiv...

Conflict, Culture and Communication provides a coherent, research-informed overview of conflict and intercultural communication. Aimed at encouragi...

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of ...

This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL). Enriched by...

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve int...

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the fave...

This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume co...

Just as workers are confronting the rapidly changing practices of the restructured, technological workplace and the increasing convergence of worki...

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretic...

Teaching English for Tourism initiates a sustained academic discussion on the teaching and learning of English to tourism professionals, or to stud...

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conve...

This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning....

Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this book examines how the everyday language practices and cultural funds of knowledge of youth from...