Linguistics

This Element covers the interaction of two research areas: linguistic semantics and deep learning. It focuses on three phenomena central to natural...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is a burgeoning field of interest for researchers and practitioners; however, to date its sociocultural and politi...

A powerful new examination of the performative that asks whats next? for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austins speech-act...

Physiological, political, and poetic studies of the relationship between the human body and voice saw increased attention and took on new significa...

Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otters Journ...

People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll...

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prio...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerg...

The linguistic situation in Guangxi is poorly known among Western linguistic circles. This book is a reference grammar of Pinghua the oldest Sinit...

This work applies the concept of chaîne opératoire to the discourses that surround artifacts by examining the history, evaluation, and interpretati...

Emoji is everywhereon messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and printed ads. While there is a ...

Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of ...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics, written in an engaging and accessible style for a ne...

This Element provides an overview of structural priming research across the three main populations on which experimental priming studies have conce...

This Element provides an overview of structural priming research across the three main populations on which experimental priming studies have conce...

Sinitic is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of thousands of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intell...

This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching internationa...