linguistics books

This book seeks to make sense of competing ideas about misinformation, by setting out a post-critical discourse...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology.  Read More >>

A rhetorical examination of the contemporary panic surrounding transgender women in sport revealing that ""fairness""...  Read More >>

Provides rhetorical critics a new method, ""rhetorical gameplay,"" for the evaluation of large-scale and real-world...  Read More >>

Digital News Literacy and Participatory Journalism empowers readers to confidently navigate the complexities of...  Read More >>

Examines word-formation patterns in academic writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences offering rich insights...  Read More >>

Examines how Sino-Muslim religious, cultural and historical knowledge is produced and maintained through everyday...  Read More >>

This monograph provides a rare sociological analysis of China’s efforts to globalise its academic knowledge through...  Read More >>

This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and making...  Read More >>

The history, tragedies, and bitter controversies that characterized a language once spoken by 11 million people...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

This book redefines behavioural economics by showing how language shapes decision-making, and how large language...  Read More >>

Reconstructs relative clause structure in Proto-Indo-European, examining evidence from a wide range of archaic Indo-European...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Speakers gesturally indicate and depict with their arms and hands as they speak, but it appears that signers cannot...  Read More >>

This book redefines behavioural economics by showing how language shapes decision-making, and how large language...  Read More >>

Reconstructs relative clause structure in Proto-Indo-European, examining evidence from a wide range of archaic Indo-European...  Read More >>

This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referents—is...  Read More >>

The first multi-volume reference work dedicated entirely to the field of diachronic linguistics The Wiley Blackwell...  Read More >>

Learning to think well means learning to argue well. But it's not easy: Teachers often say they spend more time...  Read More >>

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception...  Read More >>

This book explores how multicultural speakers interact in monolingual, bilingual, and telecollaborative contexts...  Read More >>

This book offers an annotated critical edition of The Mirror of the Graces (1811), a Regency conduct manual on fashion,...  Read More >>