Linguistics

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current...

This important work considers the contemporary movement of "writing in the feminine", by examining the work of five women writers from French and E...

Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August ...

A.J. Ayer burst like a supernova upon the Anglo-American philosophical world in 1936, with "Language, truth and logic", an eloquent, uncompromising...

This dictionary contains commonsense phonetic pronunciations for Creole and English, modern up-to-date entries, and a section on Creole proverbs.

Language development is one of the major battle grounds within the humanities and sciences. This is the first time that the three major theories in...

In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from...

Easy to use, this is the only Twi dictionary available in the US. Each entry is accompanied by commonsense phonetics to facilitate correct pronunci...

* 3,000 dictionary entries* Ukrainian words presented in Cyrillic script, with Romanized pronunciation* Concise pronunciation guide* Numerous trave...

Peter Kellett and Diana Dalton set out in this text to address the question: How do people manage conflict effectively? This is a simple question w...

First published in 1998. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 2: Literature and Philology is the sec...

A study of the history of linguistic thoughts and attitudes in Wales during the eighteenth century, noting particularly the rich contribution of We...

Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual’s response to job loss is a prod...

Italian is unique among modern European languages, for although it has a history going back eight centuries, it has only consolidated as a spoken n...

This book is about doing discourse analysis. Its focus is on method, but the method is embedded in a wider theoretical perspective on social life, ...

A volume containing a summary of the grammar of the Welsh language as it existed in the period from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries.

Discourses of Domination explores the issue of racial bias in the Canadian English-language press. Applying critical discourse analysis as their pr...

In 1876 and 1877, Captain W. P. Clark commanded a detachment of Indian scouts—including Pawnees, Shoshones, Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Crows, and Sioux—...

This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widely known and respected scholar of semiotics and linguistics, provides a lucid narrative on th...

Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie ...

This volume contains previously unpublished articles by the most prominent sociolinguists working in the study of language variation today, which w...

Here, at last, is a text on Italian linguistics that clearly presents all of the key concepts in a form designed specifically for English-speaking ...

The fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself combined with the co...