Linguistics

A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house.

Are you a bobo or a wombat?

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life.

Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage.

'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in.

A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists.

In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering.

BESTSELLING NARRATIVE NON-FICTIONAn extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!

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Learning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child's development: a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents.

This is a classic book on a fascinating subject.

The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction.

What can Johnny Cash s lyrics teach us about the little-known Tangut dialect?

The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.

Mr Jack has been nimble and he s been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he s found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner.

With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law.

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket?

Why do so many swear words involve sex, bodily functions and religion?

'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.

Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies.

When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values?

'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

Nel presente volume vengono presentati studi linguistici, filologici, letterari e culturali concernenti la lingua sarda e le sue varietà.

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics.

Bridging Theory and Practice in Children's Spirituality explores the different contexts, methods, and situations that influence and foster a child's spirituality and faith development.

How human language evolved from the need for social communicationThe origins of human language remain hotly debated.

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought.

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues.

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt.

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim.

Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial.

Believe it or not, your kids WANT to talk to you about the social and health challenges they're facing.

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Ten years ago, the hegemonic idea was that language was a kind of independent module within the mind, a sort of "e;print-out"e; of whatever cognitive activity was taking place, but without any influence whatsoever in that activity.

Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest oratorAll of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision.

Inspiration for the motion picture streaming on Pure Flix!

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In the last ten years the neuroscience of language has matured as a field.

Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language.

Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Second Edition (COPE) is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the discipline of pragmatics, an important branch of natural language study dealing with the study of language in it's entire user-related theoretical and practical complexity.

Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics formalizes, organizes and analyzes the relation of knowledge about language to decision-making in practice.

The application of philosophy to language study, and language study to philosophy, has experienced demonstrable intellectual growth and diversification in recent decades.

This volume descibes, in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language.

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey delivers a rigorous overview of the sound systems of varieties of English throughout the world.

Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung– Emanuela Sanfelici: On the strength of D0: case resolution phenomena in free relative clausesAbstract: This paper proposes a novel account of free relative clauses (RCs), which associates case resolution patterns to the typology of D0 heads à la Longobardi (1994), Guardiano & Longobardi (2005).

Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language.

ste libro separa los hechos de la ficción y analiza detalladamente empresas de alto crecimiento en algunos países en vías de desarrollo para construir un argumento convincente en cuanto a que no es recomendable desarrollar políticas públicas que pretendan escoger posibles empresas 'ganadoras'.

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world.

Historical analysis reveals that perceptual theories and models are doomed to relatively short lives.

The book presents the state-of-the-art in major aspects of text analysis and cognitive text processing by some of the most well-known European and American researchers in the field of text-linguistics and cognitive psychology.