linguistics books

Word order variation in the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area has recently received much attention, notably expressions...  Read More >>

The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern,...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions...  Read More >>

This volume explains and illustrates key methodologies in how to approach the study of modality, including storyboards,...  Read More >>

This monograph examines the distributional patterns of five adjectival near-synonyms from the domain of SMELL in...  Read More >>

This volume on English modals positions itself with respect to qualitative questions pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics...  Read More >>

This book presents cutting-edge work in semiotics, projecting developments in the future of the field. Authored...  Read More >>

Narratives, legends, and stories are a key to cultural knowledge and cultural heritage across languages of the world....  Read More >>

Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children's verbal communication skills and are conducted...  Read More >>

Existential semiotics is a new scientific paradigm which combines the classical semiotics to the continental philosophy....  Read More >>

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of compounds consisting of more than two lexemes. Focusing on tripartite...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression,...  Read More >>

This study investigates the properties of nonfinite domains in several unrelated languages, in order to enlarge...  Read More >>

The book favors a dynamic approach to common ground whereby shared knowledge is activated, assumed and co-constructed...  Read More >>

Anybody teaching English to Indonesian speakers should know the difficulties of non-verbal predicates and the placement...  Read More >>

This volume covers the field of linguistic (im)politeness in a particular mediated, customer-oriented setting. It...  Read More >>

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As pessoas comunicam em todo o mundo através do envio e receção de informação num contexto específico. A maioria...  Read More >>

Menschen kommunizieren auf der ganzen Welt, indem sie Informationen in einem bestimmten Kontext senden und empfangen....  Read More >>

Le persone comunicano in tutto il mondo inviando e ricevendo informazioni in un contesto specifico. La maggior parte...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power represents the first comprehensive disciplinary investigation into...  Read More >>

The aim of this volume is to examine the practices, methods and theories of a small sample of university academic...  Read More >>

Cet essai explore les origines, les significations et l'importance des noms de famille dans la culture du Manden....  Read More >>

For readers of Ecclesiastes, perhaps perplexing, paradoxical, elusive, pessimistic-characterize the first impressions...  Read More >>

This book explores ways of appreciating eating, with the authors using lessons from their first language, even when...  Read More >>