Linguistics

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.

Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

Provides a study of the language of mediation, using excerpts from real-life mediation sessions to illustrate how mediation works.

The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world''s languages.

This book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.

Introduces the integration of theoretical and applied translation studies for socially-oriented and data-driven empirical translation research.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

Where is language?

Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.

A new perspective on how far law''s power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.

Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

A revealing account of politeness in conversation, focusing on the vital role it plays in maintaining class differences.

The interrelationship between three major quantity changes in the history of the Germanic languages: gemination, lenition, and open syllable lengthening.

Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.

A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

Discusses a special case of syntax-morphology mismatch that puzzles current traditional morphological theories – the case of relational adjectives across languages.

This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.

Explores the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, combining mainstream ideas from minimalist syntax and formal semantics.

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.

This book argues that ideophones provide the ''missing link'' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

Uses an explicit formal framework to explore and model cross-linguistic variation, in constructions where a noun modifies another noun.

Illustrates the latest trends in politeness research from a multilingual and multicultural perspective, through the application of diverse methodologies.