Linguistics

Horse Crazy explores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses.

Two thousand years ago a man walked the earth who claimed to be God.

Multifactorial perspectives, whether sociological, cultural, anthropological, historical, biological or psychological, serve as the basis for a considerable amount of research, including how youth and adolescents are influenced by the sociocultural aspects that guide the way they are seen and see the society around them.

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away.

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away.

A fascinating cultural and linguistic history of the Slavic languages, exploring the deep connections and distinctions between them Water, whiskey, and vodka are three words that seem to have nothing in common, but each of them comes from the same root.

Written by a team of leading scholars, this book examines how third languages are learned and processed in the brain.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

This book is a collection of letters from pastors and professors of theology meant to encourage young men who either desire to be pastors or are interested in theology and want to learn more.

Everything in our world can be interpreted as a sign.

How a visionary university and foundation president tackled some of the thorniest problems facing higher educationAs provost and then president of Princeton University, William G.

Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Sammelbandes steht die Komplementaritat von digitalem und analogem Fremdsprachenlehren und -lernen.

Drawing on the cognitive translatological paradigm, this book introduces a situation-embedded cognitive construction model of translation and explores the thinking portfolios of British and American sinologists-cum-translators to re-examine their multiple voices and cognition in translating Chinese fiction.

Il tema affrontato si inserisce nell'ambito della retorica dell'elogio e studia alcuni discorsi contenuti nel Corpus dei Panegyrici Latini.

Ce numéro des Cahiers Internationaux de Sociolinguistique invite à examiner en première ligne l’écriture de la recherche, la compréhension des altérités, l’expérience du (de la) chercheur.

This accessibly-written textbook uses the intrinsic appeal of a story to engage students with language, and provides teachers with the background knowledge and the skills to use literature to construct lessons for their classes which integrate all four skills plus language awareness in an enjoyable way.

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This book approaches cultural conceptualizations of our modern world from cultural, linguistic and cognitive perspectives.

Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity, the volume starts from the premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically modelled and aesthetically shaped.

Das Buch beruht auf dem Unterrichtsalltag in Alphabetisierungskursen mit erwachsenen Migrant:innen und bietet Lehrkraften eine fundierte Einfuhrung in die Fachliteratur.

Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience.

This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021).

Kreolsprachen finden ein verstärktes Interesse der Linguisten, nicht zuletzt, weil sie gerade im Hinblick auf neueste Forschungen zu Sprachtypologie, Universalien und dem Übergang von Mündlichkeit zu Schriftlichkeit Sprachdaten von großem Wert bereitstellen.

Niranjan Mondal is one of the most prolific writers of Dalit literature in Bangla known for his immersive fictions that root themselves in the lives of people from the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest in east India.

This book explores the fascinating world of grammatical metaphor through the lens of systemic functional linguistics.

Von 1993 bis 2007 sind die vier Bände des "Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français de l'Océan Indien" erschienen (DECOI, Kreolische Bibliothek 12), das mit dem "Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français d'Amérique" (DECA) fortgesetzt bzw.

Dass Wörter und zusammengesetzte sprachliche Ausdrücke eine wörtliche Bedeutung haben, ist allen Sprecher:innen einer Sprache mehr oder weniger bewusst.

As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts.

This volume offers an in-depth corpus linguistic analysis of the word "e;empathy"e; aiming to foster unique insights into a word widely found across contemporary discourses and into methodological innovations for analyzing large corpora.

Dass Wörter und zusammengesetzte sprachliche Ausdrücke eine wörtliche Bedeutung haben, ist allen Sprecher:innen einer Sprache mehr oder weniger bewusst.

This textbook equips pre-service educators with the tools they need to empower multilingual learners, their families, and communities; promote educational equity; and advocate for the rights of multilingual learners in increasingly complex sociopolitical settings.

Wie verhält sich der Geist zur Natur und zum Gehirn?