Language & Linguistics books

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Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent...  Read More >>

This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic variation that brings together (i) models of individual...  Read More >>

This Element traces the origins of gender bias in the English language. Situating the linguistic representations...  Read More >>

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This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

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Applying the methodology of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this critical and practical...  Read More >>

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

Grief Work as Autotheory is an interdisciplinary, narrative non-fiction book that tests the boundaries between experimental...  Read More >>

This volume presents an original, community-based study of Greek heritage language education in Canada. Through...  Read More >>

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and...  Read More >>

An advanced Arabic textbook that helps increase intercultural competency along with language proficiency and literacy...  Read More >>

This open access book examines global poverty education in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, with...  Read More >>

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>

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Without characters, there is no story. But are the characters in a story rounded and ""human,"" even if they're...  Read More >>

Most grammar books teach English as if it were a code to be memorized. This book treats it as a system to be...  Read More >>

There are many theories of meaning. Most of them are descriptive and do not answer the question of what meaning...  Read More >>

Art has the capacity to speak to us across time and space. In these eleven letters the writer sets out to reply....  Read More >>

Includes a fold-out ""Overview: Updates from the MLA Handbook, 8th edition (2016)""  Read More >>

Pulse reflects upon spiritual and seasonal regeneration, the irony and futility of self-destruction and love's mission...  Read More >>

A lively hands-on introduction to the use of electronic corpora in the description and analysis of English.  Read More >>

The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative...  Read More >>