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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...