Linguistics

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem.

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language, and cultural cognizance, operate in tandem.

This handbook explores quantitative linguistics, pedagogy, and Mandarin language acquisition in an integrated fashion and helps readers grasp how insights from quantitative linguistics can shed light on Mandarin language acquisition.

This handbook explores quantitative linguistics, pedagogy, and Mandarin language acquisition in an integrated fashion and helps readers grasp how insights from quantitative linguistics can shed light on Mandarin language acquisition.

This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act.

This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as its explanatory framework and arguing that every adaptation is an independent communicative act.

This book explores three connected insights into humor.

This book explores three connected insights into humor.

This book argues the case for indigenous African languages, which have been stripped of their importance and are now often overshadowed - both officially, through governmental language policies, and informally, through attitudes and ideologies - by former colonial languages.

This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public.

This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US.

This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US.

This volume provides an original theoretical and practical discussion around language ontology, social theory, ethics, and pedagogy to enhance socially committed teaching and scholarship in Higher Education.

This book is the first of its genre to explore the use of Arabizi, the Romanized script of the Arabic language that is used online or in chat apps, in the Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) classroom.

This book is the first of its genre to explore the use of Arabizi, the Romanized script of the Arabic language that is used online or in chat apps, in the Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) classroom.

This book critically examines how polycrisis is recontextualised and (ab)used in contemporary discourse from across Europe.

This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa.

This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa.

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts.

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts.

This book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision.

This book explores a number of important themes within body language discourse.

This book explores a number of important themes within body language discourse.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning (RL) and bandits methods, specifically tailored for advancements in speech and language technology.

This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public.

This book presents a cutting-edge overview of the language models of in phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, proposed to underlie language phenotypes across aphasic syndromes, as well as the potential applications of linguistic theory to advance therapeutic treatment -and research- in aphasiology.

This book presents a cutting-edge overview of the language models of in phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, proposed to underlie language phenotypes across aphasic syndromes, as well as the potential applications of linguistic theory to advance therapeutic treatment -and research- in aphasiology.

This book investigates age categorizations and stereotyping in job interviews by drawing on a multimodal discourse analytical approach.

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or 'hybrid genres') in the arts and critical humanities.

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or 'hybrid genres') in the arts and critical humanities.

This book is a revised and updated edition of the first ever monograph wholly dedicated to the systematic linguistic description of Brunei English.

This book is a revised and updated edition of the first ever monograph wholly dedicated to the systematic linguistic description of Brunei English.

This book provides guidance for improving primary classroom reading instruction.

This book provides guidance for improving primary classroom reading instruction.

This book introduces and explains the production-oriented approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, a new approach developed by the author through 15 years of rigorous experimentation.

This book introduces and explains the production-oriented approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, a new approach developed by the author through 15 years of rigorous experimentation.

This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature.