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This volume, written by a foremost expert, is a fascinating contribution to cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy analyzing authentic texts. It...

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviatin...

This volume covers the field of linguistic (im)politeness in a particular mediated, customer-oriented setting. It is the first book to do so across...

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship betwe...

This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging styl...

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguis...

Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies categoryWinner of the 2017 Everett Lee Hunt Award presented by ...

Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journe...

Until now there has been little consideration of the intellectual and historical impact editors have had on the young and ever-evolving field of wr...

Early college classrooms provide essential opportunities for students to grapple and contend with the racial geographies that shape their lives. Ba...

As the nation becomes increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, scholars in...

Unlimited Players provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through the lenses of g...

In an era characterised by information saturation and the rapid evolution of digital communication platforms, the study of persuasive language is u...

Multi-word verbs are an essential topic for the English language syllabus. As a characteristic feature of the language with numerous semantic and s...

Privacy Matters examines how communications and writing educators, administrators, technological resource coordinators, and scholars can address th...

Ancient Romes original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary ...

Ancient Romes original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendar...

What did Old Chinese prose sound like? Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a deep dive...

The book takes its cue from the topics of PhrasaLex, a workshop dedicated to phraseological approaches to learners lexicography which took place f...

Bavarian syntax is widely known for its productive Doubly-Filled COMP (DFC) property and for the rare phenomenon of inflecting complementizers. It ...

This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspect...

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives...

The book presents a study into the trainee interpreters' and certified interpreters' subjective experience of psycho-affective factors in consecuti...

This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second ...

This book contains a comprehensive view of pragmalinguistic studies and their recent ramifications, boasting some of the most advanced recent resea...

This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second ...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With cont...

Word roots with different structures may hold some semantic relation with each other. This is due to the presence of similar molecular constituents...

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Thi...

This volume adopts a practice-based approach to examine the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different envi...

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed...

Drawing on the authors experience as a sociolinguist and a mountain climber, this book shows how the expertise and affect-laden experience of Japan...

Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-me...