Linguistics

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

A Deaf Take on Non-Equivalence in Written Chinese Translation examines the issue of lexical non-equivalence between written Chinese and Hong Kong S...

This collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping,...

Using the concept of plasticity, or the brains ability to change through growth and reorganization, as a theoretical framework, this book argues th...

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produce...

This book delves into the integration of Augmented Reality, gamification, digital storytelling, and other technologies, illustrating their impact o...

This book gives readers a deep insight into cryptography and discusses the various types of cryptography algorithms used for the encryption and dec...

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one anot...

This book explores the intersection of gender, digitalization, and resilience in international development. Building resilience is increasingly see...

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonol...

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ...

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and ...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered...

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlight...

This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful too...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, sur...

This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workpl...

Fonologia do Português e Interfaces: Fenômenos da Aquisição e da Variação brings together a collection of studies on phonological acquisition and p...

This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analyzed through t...

This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke is reg...

Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypica...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...