Linguistics

Get your way - the smart way.

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.

Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being's every interaction.

Take a first look at the enchanting world of elephants in this beautifully illustrated ebook for babies and toddlers.

Take a first look at the fascinating world of foxes in this beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture ebook for babies and toddlers.

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous.

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition.

Take a first look at the amazing world of bees in this beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture ebook, a perfect first gift for babies and toddlers.

Take a first look at the amazing world of ants in this beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture ebook, a perfect first gift for babies and toddlers.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it mattersThe Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred.

'Fascinating.

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.

Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling?

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments, in a brand new editionEveryone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advertising, the media, and most definitely our families.

'Language is a body, a living creature .

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?

'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair.

Barbara Alicja Jańczak widmet sich der Erforschung des Sprachkontaktes an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze.

In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.

You don't have to perform anymore.

This book is a Wittgensteinian study of concept possession and conceptual investigation in philosophy.

The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics.

Vague language ('bags of time', 'doing stuff', 'and all that') is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance.

Your guest at dinner kisses you.

This book gives an inside view of real engineers communicating in a modern aerospace engineering environment.

In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.

Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the world arena.

Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to re-centre discussion of the ways in which language learning tasks can help offer a holistic approach to language learning, and to explore the research implications.

The Unitarian confrontation with the late eighteenth-century political establishment is reflected in published sermons, pamphlets and parliamentary debates.

This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered.

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers.

One of the most common phenomena of language use among bilingual speakers is language alternation.

Working in Language and Law is a detailed account of the forensic linguistic work done by the author in the last 35 years.

This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century.

Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.

Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers.

Countering popular myths of women's deficiencies in communicating in traditionally male professions, the author uses women's talk to illustrate the interactional skills required to contribute effectively to workplace meetings, and presents new insights on the organization of talk in meetings while celebrating women's clear competence.

This book compares and contrasts how different firms approach marketing within the same country.

It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature.

What is the true worth of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy?

Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview techniques.

The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that includes its structure, history, social role and educational implications, as well as the linguistic scholarship from which it derives, as a case study of language planning.

The first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish.

This book deals with some of the major theoretical and descriptive concerns of the historical linguist.

In this innovative study, Professor Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

The Rhetoric of Religious Cults takes as its departure point the notion that 'cults' have a distinctive language and way of recruiting members.

This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme.

The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades.

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature.

With increasing pressure on academics and graduate students to publish in peer reviewed journals, this book offers a much-needed guide to writing about and publishing quantitative research in applied linguistics.