Linguistics

En clara consonancia con el problema del «comprender del comprender» como de-poner originario, en esta cuidada selección de ensayos Werner Hamacher nos sitúa en un plano más elemental: el hecho de que el conocimiento, el arte, la cultura y el mundo están constituidos lingüísticamente y que, por lo tanto, se conforman en el detraimiento, las sustracciones, y las desavenencias de la lengua.

Nuevo Diccionario Mapudungun está destinado especialmente a estudiantes y a todos quienes les interese el conocimiento de esta lengua ancestral nuestra.

La melancolía en la Antigüedad.

Un manual 100% actualizado con lo que los docentes necesitan saber sobre trayectorias escolares en lectura y escritura, escrito por dos especialistas con amplísima experiencia.

The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message.

A fractured country on the verge of freedom finds its people navigating the slippery crevices of love, morality and nationalism.

Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years.

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "e;I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge.

The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures.

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object.

This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction between syntax and its interfaces.

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change.

Having been established as a field in its own right for the last decade, intercultural pragmatics is increasingly being recognized as an important area of research among scholars working in pragmatics.

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics.

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk.

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses.

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.

This book presents the latest research on the syntax of the "e;Insular Scandinavian"e; languages (Faroese and Icelandic), with contributions from thirteen experts, and a significant introductory chapter by the four editors.

Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015).

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects' identities.

Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se.

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised.

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis.

The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey's Lexical Priming - A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world.

This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism.

Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child.

Translation practice and workflows have witnessed significant changes during the last decade.

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective.

This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years.

This collection brings together current research on a range of phenomena in French, Spanish, Occitan and Italian, that will be of interest to scholars and students of Romance and general linguistics.

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation.

The current volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 45th meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place from May 6 to 9, 2015 at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English 'as (a child)'.

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics.

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si.

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints.

The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity.

Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how politicians contest and challenge racism against a minority group that does not constitute a traditional 'race'.

This book deals with the (re)production of cohesion and coherence in translation.

This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language.

Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience.

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity.

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and political spheres.

Studies on Variation in Portuguese offers a collection of studies on a range of variable phenomena attested within and across varieties of Portuguese.

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game.

This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded as related to the expression of degree, scaling a quality downwards or upwards.

Explicitation has been studied as a Translation Universal in corpus-based translation studies by several scholars, yet its features in interpreting have only been mildly touched upon.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study that straddles four academic fields, namely, autobiography, stylistics, narratology and translation studies.