Linguistics

Robert Brandom's rationalist philosophy of language, expounded in his highly influential Making It Explicit, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate, establishing him as one of the leading philosophers of his generation.

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer.

For centuries Iran hosted numerous travellers and visitors of diverse nationalities and backgrounds.

Originally published in 1992, when connectionist natural language processing (CNLP) was a new and burgeoning research area, this book represented a timely assessment of the state of the art in the field.

Some of the most frequent questions surrounding business negotiations address not only the nature of such negotiations, but also how they should be conducted.

In 1143 Robert of Ketton produced the first Latin translation of the Qur'an.

Technologies of Being in Martin Heidegger attempts to deepen the dialogue between philosophy of education and philosophy of technology, while engaging with the thought of Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler.

This is the book for introducing and getting to grips with conversation analysis.

Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences.

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Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

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This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics.

This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways.

Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht.

This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation.

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The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as :(i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.

Grounded primarily in the ethnography of communication and aligned with the multidisciplinarity of discourse analysis, the book examines the use of proverbs in the daily life of a social network of Mexican-origin transnational families in Chicago and Michoacan, Mexico.

Official translations are generally documents that serve as legally valid instruments.

This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse.

Semantic Indexicality shows how a simple syntax can be combined with a propositional language at the level of logical analysis.

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory.

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like 'type' and 'sort'.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Software Quality Days Conference (SWQD) held in Vienna, Austria, in January 2012.

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects.

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer.

At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers.

An accessible resource for busy teachers, this informative book sets the stage for using technology effectively in the literacy classroom.

First published in 1999.