Linguistics

This book introduces the concept of the "e;Person One Could Have Become"e; and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences.

Many can attest to the importance of the self-growth that occurs for young people through the arts and their accompanying communities of support, understanding, and caring.

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "e;nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so"e;.

This is the first book to cover the range of research methods currently employed across the field of linguistics.

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell.

Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English.

The accurate determination of the speech spectrum, particularly for short frames, is commonly pursued in diverse areas including speech processing, recognition, and acoustic phonetics.

Languages are constantly changing.

Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.

Digitalised learning with its promise of autonomy, enhanced learner choice, independence and freedom, is an intuitive and appealing construct but closer examination reveals it to be a rather simplistic proposition, raising the following questions.

Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.

The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English.

The role of the interpreter at international meetings of politicians and diplomats is a critical one.

This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students.

Adolescence is a challenging stage for all individuals, especially for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.

Das Interesse für die Anwendung der Valenztheorie auf die deutsche Sprachgeschichte besteht seit etwa fünfzig Jahren.

Machine translation has become increasingly popular, especially with the introduction of neural machine translation in major online translation systems.

The essays in this book deal with a number of problems in the analysis of intensional language - more especially with the analysis of the personal modalities in natural language.

A comprehensive survey of the quickly developing discipline of cognitive linguistics, its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom.

A handy 3-in-1 Italian study book: grammar, verbs and vocabulary in one volume, ideal for beginners who need a clear and easy-to-understand Italian reference and revision guide.

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology.

Die Studie geht der Frage nach, wie „nationale Identität“ im Zeitraum der so genannten Berliner Republik als epistemische Größe sprachlich in Erscheinung tritt.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam - the 19th sura of the Qur'an - according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsOrality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900.

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists' increasing interest over the last decade.

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues.

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them.

This is one of two volumes by the same editors that explore historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives on literacy in China.

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.