This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE–4th c.
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality questions what it would mean to think of sexualities transnationally and explores the way cultural ideas about sex and sexuality are translated across languages.
This book centres on self-accounts of suicidal behavior, using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to offer a qualitative perspective within current suicidology and suicide prevention research.
This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations.
From leading scholar and applied linguist Paul Nation, this book describes and explains the 20 most effective and efficient language teaching techniques and why they work.
This book explores the ways in which adolescents in Nigeria domesticate technology and the role of digital gatekeepers such as parents, guardians, and teachers in their digital lifeworlds.
This book examines the names by which we refer to the letters of the English alphabet, arguing that these letter names provide unrivalled insights into the phonological structure of English, present and past, as well as the many peculiarities of English pronunciation and spelling.
Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology.
The book investigates how the multiple senses of a Chinese polysemous lexical item are perceived by Chinese native (L1) speakers and second language (L2) learners.
Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic-"e;logical expressivism"e;-according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive.
In 'Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache' von Fritz Mauthner wird eine radikale Reflexion über die Natur und die Grenzen menschlicher Sprache präsentiert.
The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical features that differ in all three languages under investigation.
This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities.
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time.
Il volume, diviso in due parti e articolato in 17 capitoli, è il primo interamente dedicato al lessico del dialetto di Roma e a problemi di etimologia romanesca, affrontati a seconda dell’argomento da prospettive e con metodi diversi.
The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia's North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia.
This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics.
Some of the most frequent questions surrounding business negotiations address not only the nature of such negotiations, but also how they should be conducted.
The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia's North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia.
While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time.
Der Begriff "Funktionsverbgefüge" (FVG) bezeichnet Verbindungen aus einer Nominalphrase (mit oder ohne Präposition) und einem sogenannten Funktionsverb.
Ausgehend von den kleinsten Elementen des graphischen Inventars modelliert der Sammelband die soziale und situative Ausdifferenzierung digitaler Schriftlichkeit im integrativen Dialog zwischen schrift- und soziolinguistischen Ansätzen.
This manual is the first comprehensive account of Brazilian Portuguese linguistics written in English, offering not only linguists but also historians and social scientists new insights gained from the intensive research carried out over the last decades on the linguistic reality of this vast territory.
This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres.
Les 10 textes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles publiés ici ont en commun leur caractère privé, qui conditionne leur forme linguistique et ouvre aux historiens de la langue l’accès à des pans du diasystème historique souvent restés dans l’ombre.
