Language and Linguistics

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.

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.

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.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

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.