Linguistics

A relevance-theoretic account of reference, with a focus on its role in creating stylistic, attitudinal and emotional effects.

Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.

An encompassing picture of what high-level competence in second languages and in multilingual use is about.

Investigates when and how preschool children acquire the vernacular norms of the community they come from.

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

Prosody in English, German and Chinese is outlined as a principal component of linguistic form for communicative functions in speech interaction.

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Explores how children develop linguistic and literary competence from early childhood into adolescence, in a diverse range of linguistic contexts.

Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.

The first book of its kind to provide historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard.

How 10 Church Fathers Interpreted, Taught, and Preached the Bible· Explore the lives and writings of those who shaped the practices of Christianity as we know it today· Discover a spiritual legacy that still resonates today· A unique look at shared vision and purpose amidst remarkable diversity of perspectiveBy AD 100, all the original disciples had died and a new generation of preachers, teachers, and scholars had taken on the responsibility to preach, teach, and interpret the Scriptures.

This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards' use of Instagram and official websites.

This book provides pre-service Caribbean teachers and educators with contextually tested, robust strategies and ways of thinking about writing instruction which will improve their students' writing proficiency.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Illustrated with rich examples, this book shows how language users can save effort by choosing efficient structures and word order.

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence.

Sets out state-of-the-art methodological and theoretical advancements to shed light on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information.

Explains the multimodal connections of text, image, space, body, sound and speech, in both old and new computer-mediated communication systems.

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

A path-breaking study of the role played by language in the construction of sexual identities in schools.

An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Practice researched from different perspectives in a variety of contexts and second languages with implications for teaching and research.

Provides a comprehensive overview of third language acquisition (additive multilingualism) in adulthood, an increasingly important subfield of language acquisition.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield.

Explains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances communicate a speaker''s intended meaning.

The way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader''s perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

A lively and fascinating introduction to the sound, structure, and history of Korean.

Presents an exploration of human language from the perspective of the natural sciences.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

Investigates how stories are shared in online contexts and provides a method for studying them.

Explores how suspect statements are elicited in police interrogations, written down and transformed into a document that is cited in court.

Explores language, culture, and education among immigrants in the United States.

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

Leading scholars in language policy examine the politics and policies of language in Canada and the United States.

Explores the concept of tone, its physical properties and intricate patterning in phonology, to unravel key ''mysteries'' that have been subject to great debate in the field.

Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.