A state-of-the-art view of present-day linguistic typology, focussing on universal tendencies across the world''s languages and variation within individual categories.
The main purpose of the publication is to present a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values (such as the value of life, freedom, dignity, family, religion, community, truth, good, beauty, and God) reflected in Anglo-American and Polish paremiological units.
Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society.
Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today.
This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain.
This book contains selected state-of-the-art contributions to the 9th conference on natural language processing, KONVENS 2008 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung naturlicher Sprache), with the central theme: text resources and lexical knowledge.
