This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers in Southeast Asia to the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes in Indo-European languages.
This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodological approaches that reflect traditional inquiries and more recent studies.
This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodological approaches that reflect traditional inquiries and more recent studies.
Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population.
This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day.
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about itSocial scientists do research on a variety of topicsgender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others.
This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south.
Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change.
Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic change.
From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape.
From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape.
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia.
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society.
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society.
Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population.
This volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia.
Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.
Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.
Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.
Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.
The Sounds of New Orleans is the first book-length sociophonetic study of New Orleans English, one of the most distinctive yet understudied urban varieties of American English.
The Sounds of New Orleans is the first book-length sociophonetic study of New Orleans English, one of the most distinctive yet understudied urban varieties of American English.
Online-Diskurse umfassen im Kommunikationsraum Internet alle kommunikativen Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Ereignisse, auf ihre Akteure und auf thematische Schwerpunkte.
Unsere alltagliche Kommunikation ist von Mehrsprachigkeit gepragt: Sowohl multilinguale Diskurse in (in)formellen Sprachlernsettings oder in institutionellen Situationen sind davon betroffen wie auch mehrsprachige Texte im stadtischen Raum, in der Sprachdidaktik oder auf universitaren Webseiten.
Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication.
Empirische und methodische Entscheidungen stellen fur die Sprachforschung anhaltende Herausforderungen dar, die im Hinblick auf das jeweilige Erkenntnisinteresse abzuwagen sind.
Unsere alltagliche Kommunikation ist von Mehrsprachigkeit gepragt: Sowohl multilinguale Diskurse in (in)formellen Sprachlernsettings oder in institutionellen Situationen sind davon betroffen wie auch mehrsprachige Texte im stadtischen Raum, in der Sprachdidaktik oder auf universitaren Webseiten.
Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication.
Online-Diskurse umfassen im Kommunikationsraum Internet alle kommunikativen Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Ereignisse, auf ihre Akteure und auf thematische Schwerpunkte.
While there are plenty of studies on the impact English has exerted on the German language, the reverse contact situation has been relatively neglected.
Les differentes varietes de francais observables dans l'espace francophone, dites francais regionaux , dans la terminologie sociolinguistique, sont etudiees dans ce volume par certains des meilleur-e-s specialistes du sujet, dans une perspective synchronique et a travers un spectre large qui embrasse aussi bien la variation diatopique que la variation sociale.
