Language: history & general works books

Lu links ancient Chinese rhetorical perspectives with contemporary Chinese interpersonal and political communication...  Read More >>

Explores the idea of 'intercultural competence', which, despite its popularity across various discourses, has remained...  Read More >>

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This book provides an overview of recent psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations on the interplay between...  Read More >>

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cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics. As a part of this...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Estoril, Portugal, September 18-30, 1983  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive reference on the history of Arabic Language and script, which goes beyond the sole...  Read More >>

"""Team Talk: Sporting Words and Their Origins""."  Read More >>

These difficulties fall into four principal areas: defeasible reasoning (including the frame problem as apart),...  Read More >>

This book is based on the assumption that the development of science has to be understood both as a social and as...  Read More >>

in words the total experience While it is difficult to convey of this innovative therapeutic approach, this volume...  Read More >>

Some chapters present new research in specific topics, others summarize the evidence for a particular the­ oretical...  Read More >>

This anthology of the research findings of dozens of speaker recognition experts from around the world provides...  Read More >>

An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics....  Read More >>

The occasional claim that developmental dyslexia is virtually nonexistent in some languages coupled with the fact...  Read More >>

Students of linguistics, parsing and psycholinguistics will find this book a useful resource on issues related...  Read More >>

This book is intended as both an introduction to the state-of-the-art in visual languages, as well as an exposition...  Read More >>

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in...  Read More >>

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The remarkable story of global English, illustrated through 30 words that are used around the world.  Read More >>

A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one...  Read More >>

Natural language generation is a field within artificial intelligence which looks ahead to the future when machines...  Read More >>