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The Sound Patterns of Taiwanese Southern Min

The Sound Patterns of Taiwanese Southern Min

Author: Yuchau E. Hsiao (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
ISBN: 9781009654272
Format: Hardback
$271.69

The first comprehensive study of Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) phonology, this book covers rarely explored topics...  Read More >>

The Neuroscience of Word Meaning

The Neuroscience of Word Meaning

Author: David Kemmerer (Purdue University, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781009436366
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This book investigates how word meanings are represented and processed in our brains, linking perception, action,...  Read More >>

Gender and Uptalk in Hong Kong English

Gender and Uptalk in Hong Kong English

Author: Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) ,  Chan Pui Yu Ivy (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009634045
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element interrogates the complex role of gender in shaping the sociolinguistic variable of UPTALK within Hong...  Read More >>

G.I. Jive: A Dictionary of Words at War: The Vernacular of Victory (1939-1946)

G.I. Jive: A Dictionary of Words at War: The Vernacular...

Author: Paul Dickson
ISBN: 9798765145135
Format: Hardback
$120.00

A discursive historic dictionary which examines the language of the American Armed Forces in World War II through...  Read More >>

Ruth: A Handbook on the Greek Text

Ruth: A Handbook on the Greek Text

Author: William A. Ross
ISBN: 9781481319058
Format: Paperback
$171.57

A convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the Greek text of the biblical...  Read More >>

Bajanyms: Toponymic Idioms in Barbadian English and Bajan

Bajanyms: Toponymic Idioms in Barbadian English and...

Author: Cristiano Furiassi
ISBN: 9783034360104
Format: Hardback
$126.59

Through an essentially lexicographic approach, this book examines Barbadian English and Bajan toponymic, i.e. place...  Read More >>

Handbook of Politeness and Impoliteness in Persian

Handbook of Politeness and Impoliteness in Persian

Author: Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz
ISBN: 9789819545926
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This ground-breaking book offers an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted nature of politeness and impoliteness...  Read More >>

AI-Powered Corpus Translation Studies at Work: Exploring Early English Translations by Aphra Behn and her Contemporaries of Fontenelle's (1686) Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes

AI-Powered Corpus Translation Studies at Work: Exploring...

Author: Anna Maria Cipriani ,  Federico Milana
ISBN: 9789819559329
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book introduces a pioneering methodology in corpus translation studies by integrating generative...  Read More >>

Philological Investigations: Studies in Early and Medieval China

Philological Investigations: Studies in Early and Medieval...

Author: Nicholas Morrow Williams ,  Timothy O'Neill
ISBN: 9789004744677
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Philological Investigations contains essays on diverse historical, literary, and cultural topics of importance to...  Read More >>

Affect Expression in Language, Culture, and Social Context

Affect Expression in Language, Culture, and Social Context...

Author: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk ,  Marcin Trojszczak
ISBN: 9789004747043
Format: Hardback
$398.64

The book offers new insights into the ways affect and affective phenomena are conceptualized in various languages...  Read More >>

Le hobyot: Description grammaticale d’une langue sudarabique moderne

Le hobyot: Description grammaticale d’une langue sudarabique...

Author: Ali Manoubi
ISBN: 9789004746329
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Le hobyot, langue sémitique (groupe sudarabique moderne), est parlé par quelques milliers de locuteurs dans l’est...  Read More >>

Shared Scripture – Divided Faiths: The Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter over the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

Shared Scripture – Divided Faiths: The Medieval Jewish-Christian...

Author: Frans van Liere
ISBN: 9789004755697
Format: Hardback
$340.56

This volume explores the primarily Western medieval practices of interpretation of the sacred texts that Jews and...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Beserman: Volume 1

A Grammar of Beserman: Volume 1

Author: Timofey Arkhangelskiy ,  Maria Usacheva
ISBN: 9789004756694
Format: Hardback
$570.24

This is the first comprehensive grammar of Beserman, a recently recognized member of the Permic branch of the Uralic...  Read More >>

Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their Realizations

Semantic Structures of Grammatical Systems and Their...

Author: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
ISBN: 9789004757288
Format: Hardback
$372.24

The book demonstrates that the description of semantics encoded in grammatical systems is a prerequisite for the...  Read More >>

Marginalia On Casanova

Marginalia On Casanova

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy ,  Tim Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781967751273
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

Strategies-Based Instruction, Individual Differences and Learning Second Language Grammar

Strategies-Based Instruction, Individual Differences...

Author: Mirosław Pawlak ,  Mariusz Kruk
ISBN: 9783032186621
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Although research into language learning strategies (LLS) has flourished over the last several decades, some areas...  Read More >>

Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

Author: Susan E. Israel (University of Dayton)
ISBN: 9781041033875
Format: Paperback
$284.63

The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension is the seminal research handbook on reading comprehension. The...  Read More >>

Languaging: Playfulness and Precarity

Languaging: Playfulness and Precarity

Author: Sender Dovchin (Curtin University, Perth)
ISBN: 9781009526920
Format: Paperback
$64.69

An innovative overview of languaging, this book reframes language as a dynamic, relational, and embodied practice....  Read More >>

Translating Modernity: (Trans)formations of a Concept

Translating Modernity: (Trans)formations of a Concept...

Author: Salah Basalamah ,  Abdel-Wahab Khalifa
ISBN: 9783031927805
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

Marginalia On Casanova

Marginalia On Casanova

Author: Miklós Szentkuthy ,  Tim Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781967751693
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

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