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Naming and Necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. This seminal work, to which today's thriving...

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An essential introduction to the use and misuse of language within the criminal justice system, updated for a new generation. Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? Why do people confess to a crime they did not commit? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an anonymous threatening...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up‑to‑date, and user‑friendly grammar book available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French and their uses, illustrated by...

Based on the online blogs of acclaimed historian and author Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance provides a fresh perspective on what makes this period one of the most captivating and unique parts of European history. The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history...

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An enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world. From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashes in Sri Lanka and the conservation efforts in Hawaii and New Zealand, Rare Tongues draws...

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript. There are two...

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland...

A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today 'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language...

Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space - political...

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted...

As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of...

Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of thinking about translation across the...

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Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood. To achieve successful communication, it is crucial to say clearly what we mean, but, at the same time, we need to pay attention to the form of our utterances...

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Originally published in 1977. Learning to read is probably the central educational achievement of any child's life. It is also a central concern for parents and teachers. Leila Berg, known for her work in children's literature, believes that the enjoyment of books and the acquisition of reading...

Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are...

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal...

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This bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive guide to conducting discourse analysis. The book outlines Gee’s approach, which involves examining how language is used in context to construct meaning, identities, relationships, and social practices. The theoretical framework is built around...

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Peter Bornedal provides an interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. The study explains Nietzsche’s notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions of the split and fragmented subject, of master, slave, and priest...

Language death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal...

Paulus ist vor allem als theologischer Denker bekannt. Nun behaupten gewichtige Stimmen aus dem englischsprachigen Raum, die Exegese seiner Briefe habe sich bisher viel zu sehr auf abstrakte Konzepte und Argumentationsfiguren konzentriert. Vielmehr sei die Erkenntnis von fundamentaler Bedeutung...

This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically large language models (LLMs) revolutionize our lives with new technologies appearing at an unprecedented rate. These technologies can potentially change how we understand human conversations, from the dialogues of married couples to diplomatic...

This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning how to engage critically with the notion of...

The success of predictive large language models (PLLMs) like GPT3 and ChatGPT has created both enthusiasts and skeptics of their widespread practical applications, but this book argues that the larger significance of such models is contained in what they suggest about human cognition. To explore...

Now in its sixth edition, this bestselling textbook remains the cornerstone for the study of second language acquisition, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to SLA. This substantially revised and updated edition has been edited into ten chapters, with a focus on the most...

Assuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a largely theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book: introduces syntactic typology...

How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering 26 practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities. Written by renowned linguist James Paul Gee, it introduces key concepts...

'A fiendishly good read!' Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with...

Was the UK electorate talked into Brexit? This book shows how Brexit propaganda swayed voters in the 2016 referendum. Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of...

The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that was brought about by the new, historical philology of the nineteenth century. Regional dialects came to be seen not as corrupt or pernicious, but...

The newest edition of Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian combines an engaging reference and grammar practice explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises. Aimed at keen students of all levels, Soluzioni also has a companion website at...

Now in its third edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a structured, comprehensive introduction to ISLA's theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical themes, as well as a range of key issues in research and practice. Designed for ease of teaching, the...

The new sixth edition of this popular book has been written to help international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated in a streamlined format making it even easier for students and teachers to use, Academic...

Holy Boys seeks to address the lingering echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows of unspeakable desires and all-consuming longing. These poems are a means of finding language in youth, gathering experience in pubescence, and serving as testament to survival in a world...

Names are very important and can unlock vast amounts of information about places and their origins. The placename of Scotland are a goldmine of information about times past and the lives of early inhabitants. The different languages of their origin – Gaelic, Pictish, Cumbric, Old Norse and Old...

The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many commonly used expressions today – by the book, bring to book and bookworm – to name a few. With the...

'I couldn’t put it down’ RUKMINI IYER ‘I loved this book so much... Think: The Body Keeps the Score in practice not theory’ ELLA RISBRIDGER Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture – and when...

Ця унікальна книга про оселю нашого буття – українську мову. Саме про неї оригінально й захопливо розповідає автор, пропонуючи абсолютно новий, позбавлений стереотипів підхід. Видання має стислий формат. Тут немає води, ліричних відступів, пафосних слів – тільки конкретика, приправлена рясним...

‘One of the most important writers of the French Caribbean’ Guardian Édouard Glissant’s most celebrated, scintillating philosophical work – which sets out a new poetic vision for the world ‘We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone’ In Poetics of Relation...

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Trans artist's debut poetry collection. dove / Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely-wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembéne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into...

A New History of Our Ancient Past, From the Author of the International Bestseller Pale Rider 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A truly extraordinary detective story' Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything ____ One ancient language...

The world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Essential Grammar in Use is a self-study reference and practice book for elementary-level learners (A1-B1), used by millions of people around the world. With clear examples, easy-to-follow exercises and answer key, the Fourth...

Людству неймовірно пощастило: крім того, що вміє влучно називати всі предмети і явища навколишнього світу, воно також майстерно висловлює свої думки та впливає за допомогою мовлення на співрозмовника. А українцям пощастило ще більше, адже найголовніший інструмент, за допомогою якого ми...

Видання є тематичним продовженням попередньої праці проф. Б. Б. Шалагінова «Класики і романтики. Штудії з історії німецької літератури XVIII–ХІХ століть» (2013) і містить статті, кожна з яких, будучи присвяченою окремому літературному явищу або конкретному твору, підпорядкована спільній ідеї...

Монографію присвячено соціолінгвістичному опису мовної ситуації Києва. Матеріалом дослідження стали результати масового й фокус-групових опитувань, проведених у межах міжнародного трилатерального проєкту «Бі- і мультилінгвізм: між інтенсифікацією та вирішенням мовного конфлікту. Етнолінгвістичні...

Словник складає різнобічну характеристику синонімів сучасної української мови. Це плід багаторічної праці автора — письменника. Розрахований на філологів, письменників, журналістів, учителів-словесників, учнівську та студентську молодь, усіх, хто небайдужий до розвитку рідної мови...

The Elements of Style is a study guide for the development of writing style by William Strunk Jr., a professor of English at Cornell University. It was later finished by his student, Elwyn Brooks White. Now it is commonly known as “the study guide by Strunk and White”. In short, this book is for...

Чи знаєте ви, що голосних в українській мові приблизно в п’ять разів менше, ніж приголосних? Чи чули ви про нескладотворчі звуки? А про літеру Шредінгера? Чи відомо вам, що шиплячі постійно мімікрують під інші приголосні української мови? Якщо чесно: ви все це знаєте. І навіть якщо вам здається...

Мова — це не просто сукупність слів, що зберігаються в словниках, і не довільний набір значень. Мова — це спосіб мислення й відображення дійсності, це картина світу, яку почали малювати наші далекі пращури й продовжать довершувати наші далекі нащадки. Ми теж беремо безпосередню участь у її...

Час тішитися неймовірним мовним різноманіттям, що постає перед нами з народження та надихає й зачаровує людей, відколи вони навчилися розмовляти. Ця книжка відкривається першими звуками, що їх дитя чує в материнській утробі. Діти здатні швидко навчатися декількох мов водночас. Софі Гардах...

У статтях збірника йдеться про походження й історичний розвиток української мови, висвітлюються питання про її структуру, логіку й закономірності побудови, про зв’язок мови з мисленням, про роль письменників, зокрема Тараса Шевченка, в її збагаченні й утвердженні. Дано деякі рекомендації щодо...

Мові байдуже хто ви: святий чи грішник, благодійник або ж вбивця. Якщо за життя вам вдалося зробити щось достатньо незвичне чи екстравагантне, мова з радістю покладе вас у шафку і дбайливо збереже для нащадків. У книжці мовознавця Рустама Гаджієва ви знайдете лінгвістичні історії з усього світу...

Мова ненависті — річ погана, але під час війни — цілком добра й навіть необхідна. Як ми називаємо ворога? За якими мовленнєвими особливостями легко його розпізнаємо? Чи вміємо ми воювати словом? Чи достатньою є наша русофобія? Авторка книжки «Перемагати українською» намагається розібратися з...

«Як ми говоримо» — книжка, присвячена чистоті української мови. Книжка адресується тим, хто дбає про культуру мови й прагне запобігти помилковому слововживанню, перебороти лексичну розбіжність у визначенні однакових понять, уникнути невластивих українській мовній традиції зворотів і висловів...

До книги ввійшли 45 есеїв, які вперше побачили світ у 2012–2013 роках на шпальтах газети «Україна молода» в рубриці «Уроки літератури від Леоніда Ушкалова». У них автор порушує цілу низку питань, важливих для кожної людини: щастя, свобода, любов, правда, поезія, самотність... А героями есеїв є і...

Книга є першим в Україні навчально-довідковим виданням, присвяченим обґрунтуванню практичної транскрипції китайських власних назв і реалій українською мовою. У ній вміщено нову систему української практичної транскрипції китайської мови, а також представлено перші рекомендації до внормування...

Європі відкрили Санскрит лише в 1762 році. А в 1880 році поляк М. Красуський довів, що мова Санскриту праукраїнського походження. Її завезли в Індію переселенці з Праукраїни ще в V–IV тисячоліттях до н. е. Нині впізнаємо сліди культури наших предків на кожному кроці земної кулі. Навіть Океанія...

На культурній мапі модерної української мови є дві важливі точки: Бад-Емс, звідки указом намагались переконати світ, що української мови немає, не було і бути не може, і Страсбург — точка, де 21 березня 2022 року українська отримала статус майбутньої офіційної мови Європейського Союзу. Орися...

У книзі вперше у нашому мовознавстві висвітлено таку актуальну тему як багатство української мови, яку автор ретельно обґрунтовує на основі різноманітних наукових джерел, досліджуючи фонетичні, морфемні, морфологічні, синтаксичні особливості української мови. Посібник доповнено поезіями автора...

Робота перекладача зазвичай непомітна для пересічних читачів. І це добре. Бо він — «сірий кардинал» перекладної літератури. Його праця, позірно легка й невигадлива, насправді марудна й копітка. У чому її специфіка? З якими труднощами стикається тлумач? Як саме перекладались біографія Стіва...

У монографії схарактеризовано засадничі положення культури мови в оновленій парадигмі наукових знань. Репрезентовано культуру мови як лінгвістичну дисципліну, зорієнтовану на нормативний і якісний аспекти мови, на культивування мовного еталону. Для мовознавців – наукових працівників, викладачів...

Міждисциплінарний енциклопедичний словник-довідник літературознавчих термінів та понять призначений для широкого кола читачів. Особливо цікавим буде для науковців-гуманітаріїв, але також знадобиться для учнів, вчителів, студентів та викладачів...

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics" or "The Father of Capitalism", he wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)...

Основна праця Антоненка-Давидовича присвячена чистоті української мови. У доступній формі автор наводить найпоширеніші приклади помилкового або сумнівного вживання слів, зворотів і висловів, розмірковує про скарбницю мовної спадщини українського народу. Кожне твердження супроводжується цитатами...

Ми живемо у світі кодів. Поезія, музика, математика, англійська, мова жестів — окремі мовні коди, що гармонійно поєднуються в нашому мозку. І що більше таких кодів ми маємо, то легше нам діставати й інтерпретувати інформацію, генерувати нові ідеї, будувати кар’єру, прискорювати радикальний...

En Activo is a contemporary course which provides students with a structured development of written and spoken business language skills, focusing on real business people and situations from all over the Spanish-speaking world. The book consists of twenty chapters that incorporate contextual...

These CDs are to be used in conjunction with the Routledge Intensive Dutch Course. Recorded by native speakers, they include dialogues, exercises and a variety of texts to help students using the course to improve their listening comprehension and pronunciation skills...

This intensive foundation course in Italian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. The two audio CDs contain dialogues, listening exercises and pronunciation practice, and are designed to work alongside the accompanying book. Students using the Routledge Intensive...

Combining all the learning from the popular Get Talking English in Ten Days and Keep Talking English -Ten Days to Confidence, this beginner audio course will give you the skills and confidence to speak and understand English. Learn essential American and British English in this two-level...

Learn more essential American and British English Learn more essential American and British English in this beginner audio course. Keep Talking English in Ten Days maps to A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages. It can be used as a stand-alone course or as...

French made easy with your bestselling personal language coach An exciting approach to learning French with the easy, relaxed appeal of an audio-only product. Over 12 hours of bestselling easy-listening. No books. No rote memorisation. No chance of failure. The accompanying booklet is also...

Чи знаєте ви, що голосних в українській мові приблизно в п’ять разів менше, ніж приголосних? Чи чули ви про нескладотворчі звуки? А про літеру Шредінгера? Чи відомо вам, що шиплячі постійно мімікрують під інші приголосні української мови? Якщо чесно: ви все це знаєте. І навіть якщо вам...

Мова ненависті — річ погана, але під час війни — цілком добра й навіть необхідна. Як ми називаємо ворога? За якими мовленнєвими особливостями легко його розпізнаємо? Чи вміємо ми воювати словом? Чи достатньою є наша русофобія? Авторка книжки «Перемагати українською» намагається розібратися з...

Wollen Sie Ihr Französisch verbessern, ohne ein trockenes Grammatikbuch lesen zu müssen? Dann ist dieses Übungsbuch genau das richtige für Sie. Norbert Berger fasst die Regeln der französischen Grammatik noch einmal leicht verständlich und mit vielen Beispielen für Sie zusammen, bevor Sie selbst...

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written by a renowned authority in the field In Sounds of English Worldwide, Raymond Hickey delivers a rigorous overview of the sound systems of varieties of English throughout the world. Beginning with an...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a scientific discipline which is found at the intersection of fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Cognitive Psychology. This book presents in four chapters the state of the art and fundamental concepts of key NLP areas. Are presented in...

Lieberman has distilled the best of his twenty-five years of accumulated wisdom about man's unique gift of speech and has presented it here in much too readable a form to be limited to experts. I hope it reaches the broad audience it deserves. -- George Miller, Princeton University In a...

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Speak and Write Like a Polished Professional “Dianna Booher nails it! The Memory Tips alone are worththe price of the book. This one’s a gem.” —John Baldoni, author of Great Communication Secrets of Great Leadersand How Great Leaders Get Great Results “Dianna Booher pulls off a deft and most...

Ever wondered why we can say “Maria made the boy cry” but not “Maria made the boy crying”? Or why “Two coffees, please” is acceptable, but “Melvin loves coffees” is generally wrong? Or why we say “It has been raining since ten”, even though nobody asks “What did you say has been raining”? These...

Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust’s monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust’s narrator and the novel that houses him devote...

The go-to sentence-building guide now includes a brand-new, fully comprehensive review chapter! You’ve learned the fundamentals of English grammar, like spelling, word meanings, and parts of speech. Now it’s time to take the next step and put them all together to communicate complete ideas...

"A splendid treatment of Mam ... with many implications for comparative Mayan linguistics and general linguistic theory. The lucid and highly readable grammatical presentation makes the work of value to anthropologists and interested laymen, as well as linguists." -- Victoria R. Bricker This is...

A breakthrough bilingual dictionary that makes finding the right Chinese character a breeze When he surveyed his students, authorQuanyu Huang found that only two outof 300 used a Chinese dictionary. Theirmain obstacle is how existing dictionariesare organized; either a user needs to know the...

In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey...

This book explores language practices, beliefs and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia, drawing on these case studies as a lens through which to unpack dynamics of Family Language Policy (FLP) and their implications for future research on FLP. The volume begins by...

This book advances the notion of autotextuality, the dialogue between works in an author’s oeuvre, and the ways in which new texts are created in self-repetition through the tracing and revisiting of past texts and the subsequent uncovering of undisclosed meanings, unexhausted constructive...

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume...

This book explores language practices, beliefs and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia, drawing on these case studies as a lens through which to unpack dynamics of Family Language Policy (FLP) and their implications for future research on FLP. The volume begins by...

What is narrative psychology? How is the experience of 'self' linked to language, narratives and other people? What is the role of time, morality, power and control in the construction of identity? This introductory textbook presents a coherent overview of the theory, methodology and potential...

An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas. Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and...

With topics ranging from language death to sign language, Language, Frogs and Savants offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics. Written by one of the most senior figures in linguistics. Features fascinating topics ranging from language death to sign language. Includes an...

With topics ranging from language death to sign language, Language, Frogs and Savants offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics. Written by one of the most senior figures in linguistics. Features fascinating topics ranging from language death to sign language. Includes an...

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and...

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully. Combines a survey of theory and research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) with insights from language teaching and...

Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works. A succinct and practical introduction to understanding sentence structure, ideal for students who need...

This monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy both in Germany and Europe. Offers comprehensive documentation of Schottelius’s numerous sources to show the range and limits of scholarly knowledge...

Nicht jeder, der souverän und erfolreich eine Verhandlung führen kann, fühlt sich auch im Umgang mit englischsprachigen Verhandlungspartnern sicher. Lars M. Blöhdorn und Denise Hodgson-Möckel geben Ihnen die wichtigsten Vokabeln und Redewendungen für Verhandlungen auf Englisch an die Hand. Die...

This essential textbook is a step-by-step guide to how to write a self-reflective translation commentary, a key requirement of most courses on translation. Starting with source text analysis, it guides students in how to set out a translation strategy and goes through the most common challenging...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the...

A practical guide to translation as a profession, this book provides everything translators need to know, from digital equipment to translation techniques, dictionaries in over seventy languages, and sources of translation work. It is the premier sourcebook for all linguists, used by both...

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This book is directly concerned with the reasons underlying bilingual children's poor performance on standardized tests. It is the authors' contention that without an understanding of the nature of bilingualism itself, the problems encountered by bilingual individuals on such tests will...

Sentence Structure: introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose is based on a problem-solving approach to language teaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrative uses simple tree structures to analyse sentences contains...

For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes inescapable. But in this book he is interested in...

This is a practical, accessible manual for Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists and Educators who assess children with language impairments, explaining how and why to implement Dynamic Assessment and gives you a huge range of ready-to-use, practical tools. Where normal...

Es gibt zahlreiche Apps, mit denen man Englisch lernen kann. Aber wir zeigen dir Apps, mit denen du Englisch auch verstehst. Werde in der Schule besser und zeige allen, dass du es richtig kannst. Alles ist auf deine Anforderungen in der Schule abgestimmt. Wir gehen völlig neue Wege und verraten...

Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions written by educators and applied linguists that explores the latest research methodologies and theories related to classroom language. • Organized to facilitate a...

David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels speech and thought. The...

Describing a new and appealing way of analysing speech sounds, this book introduces you to the theory of elements in phonology. Traditional features are capable of describing segments and segmental patterns, but they are often unable to explain why those patterns are the way they are. By using...

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm. Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of...

Philosophy and rhetoric are both old enemies and old friends. In The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy, Donald Phillip Verene sets out to shift our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric from that of separation to one of close association. He outlines how ancient rhetors...

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular Lombardy and Venice, during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, the literature on the economics and society of northern Italy had hitherto...

Assuming little or no background knowledge and using original examples and exercises (with answers supplied), Understanding Phonetics provides you with an accessible introduction to the basics of phonetics and a comprehensive analysis of traditional phonetic theory - the articulation and...

In both the social sciences and the humanities, current scholarship typically examines speech and social action as separate entities. But do they truly act in isolation? In Narrative Social Structure, Recep Senturk challenges the prevailing understandings of speech and social action, of actor...

Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the first thorough analysis of Kazakh to be published in English. The volume is systematically organized to enable users to find information quickly and easily, and provides a thorough understanding of Kazakh grammar, with special emphasis given to syntax...

What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is ‘stopped being a serious genre’ after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality, and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? Bakhtin and...

Formal Pragmatics addresses issues that are on the borderline of semantics and pragmatics of natural language, from the point of view of a model-theoretic semanticist. This up-to-date resource covers a substantial body of formal work on linguistic phenomena, and presents the way the...

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This book investigates the use of English third person pronouns (he, she, it) across different varieties of English, where we frequently find he and she used for inanimate objects (the tree – he, the house – he, the bucket – he, but the water – it). It is the first book-length study of this...

Word Structure, provides a complete introduction to morphology, the study of the structure of words. Word Structure: examines how words work as part of the language system encourages readers to take an objective and analytic approach refers to a wealth of languages, including Turkish and Latin...

The Natural Speaker is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural, and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing an overview of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve...

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the...

A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence. Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and...

A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence. Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and...

Sentence Structure: introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose is based on a problem-solving approach to language teaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrative uses simple tree structures to analyse sentences contains...

Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. First, he demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning. Формат: Скан PDf...

Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance...

Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance...

Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy...

Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non- fictionBowen is a noteworthy...

This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics. Statistical techniques and corpus applications - whether oriented towards linguistics or language engineering - often go hand in glove, and...

Französische Grammatik Mit Übungsaufgaben samt Lösungen und Konjugations- tabellen der wichtigsten Verben Steht der nächste Test an oder wollen Sie einfach Ihre Französischkenntnisse verbessern? Grammatik ist nicht jedermanns Sache und die französische Grammatik macht es Ihnen nicht immer...

The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for the collection and analysis of Norse loans in any English source. A new survey of the etymological evidence for nearly 500 words in one of the most...

Presents the philosophy of poetry as a substantial field of research affecting core philosophical questions about truth and language. Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and...

In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and jouissance. Arguing for the existence of a primordial real void outside and independent of...

A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world. Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field Includes definitions both for the varieties of...

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the...

Provides an innovative new theory of semiotics and communication, based around the deductive theory of interacting systems. Against the background of often esoteric literature in semiotics, this book offers a fresh and rigorous new interpretation of how to approach the study of communication...

Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity's cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a "ludification," as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new...

Proposes and develops a unified conception of human mind by connecting Descartes' understanding of mind with linguistic theory and musical cognition. Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and...

Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. But Kircher is most famous - or infamous - for his quixotic attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs and reconstruct the ancient traditions they encoded. Here Daniel...

What are monuments for? and why are the inscriptions so often in Latin? What on earth is the point of communicating in a language so few understand? Peter Kruschwitz, a Classics scholar and specialist in the Latin language and its history uses these questions as his starting point in The Writing...

If you can't tell a possessive pronoun from a correlative conjunction, confuse 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' and struggle with the subjunctive, then I Used to Know That: English has the answers. Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence...

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Should the United States declare English its official language? The "English-only" question, which has plagued American citizens since the founding of the country, has once again become the focus of heated debate, with an English Language Amendment to the Constitution pending in Congress since...

The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather to John Updike, were themselves...

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of...

Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means “timespace,” is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games. Using ‘slow readings’ attuned to deconstruction along the lines of...

OK as a word can agree, accept, inspire, and describe the world; as an object, OK and its variants (okay, ok, etc.) tell a story about the ways that technology and globalization change the way we communicate. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives...

Springer Book Archives This book addresses the contemporary disillusion with truth, manifest in sceptical relativism. Contending that all contemporary theories of truth are too narrow, it argues for a novel conception of truth, by showing how error is implicated in the actions of all living...

Springer Book Archives An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet...

If you want to learn about the early origins of English and related languages, and of many of our familiar customs such as feasting on holidays and exchanging gifts, this book provides a lively and richly informed introduction. Along the way you will learn when and why horses were domesticated...

Nach der Lektüres dieses Buches werden Sie entspannt zum Hörer greifen, wenn Sie wieder einmal geschäftlich auf Englisch telefonieren müssen. Sie erfahren, wie Sie sich vorstellen, wie Sie nachfragen, wie Sie Small Talk treiben und wie Sie sich verabschieden. Die Autoren geben Ihnen für alle...

An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer...

An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer...

A major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further investigation. Each Language Workbook guides the reader through the subject using...

This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of model theory as used in (higher order) predicate logic to the study of natural language semantics. It focuses on boolean structure, generalized...

Orelus' valuable study draws on the scholarly work of sociocultural and postcolonial theorists, as well as testimonies collected from study participants, to explore accentism, the systemic form of discrimination against speakers whose accents deviate from a socially constructed norm. Orelus...

Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually, in a muffled voice. The text format in which thought has been presented to readers has undergone many changes in order to...

Argues that anyone—anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman—who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized. Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/talking-culture-ethnography-and-conversation-analysis.html

In the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word "trouthe," which had earlier meant something like "integrity" or "dependability," began to take on its modern sense of "conformity to fact." At the same time, the meaning of its antonym, "tresoun," began to move from "personal...

An investigation into the expressive effect of sound patterns Poets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. Such intuitions are Reuven Tsur’s point of departure in this...

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Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and uses tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences...

Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas...

While organisations become more and more global, they also become more and more dispersed and virtual. This challenges the sense of a shared organisational identity and the ability of employees to communicate personally held knowledge. To address these challenges this book offers an innovative...

This innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer. To gain a fresh perspective on the work of translation in the complex processes of...

This case study-based textbook in multivariate analysis for advanced students in the humanities emphasizes descriptive, exploratory analyses of various types of datasets from a wide range of sub-disciplines, promoting the use of multivariate analysis and illustrating its wide applicability...

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exciting and influential theoretical approaches such as embodied cognition and predictive coding, and explaining new topics such as motor cognition...

Shows just how performative multilingualism can be in hip hop and its implications for the recognition of previously marginalised voices in Cape Town and the Global South more generally. "Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using...

The follow-up to the bestselling Motherfoclóir. From the author of the bestselling Motherfoclóir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of...

Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian combines an engaging reference and practice grammar explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises. Aimed at keen students of all levels, Soluzioni offers: a complete grammar review in tabular form for easy...

The first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years. This textbook is the first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years. It combines a detailed analysis of the Roman poets' metrical practices with a...

A collection of essays on philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language The essays in Logos and Life, mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. There are numerous strands...

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns spark debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use. More than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context, noting...

Zaynab, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds of novels translated into Arabic from English and French. This vast literary corpus influenced generations of Arab writers but has, until now, been considered a curious...

A history of a humble grammatical marker, the hyphen, that explores how it evolved orthographically and typographically as well as the powerful role it has come to place in identity and sexual politics. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of...

How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices. Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly...

A fascinating series of essays seeking to define the new philosophical dimension of semiotics. Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field. " Tarasti's explanations, analyses and comments...

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have physical strength, but they also have mental strengths and skills. Superheroes tend to have intelligence and detection skills which allow them to develop...

An Exploration of Writing is a book about our alphabets, our syllabaries, and all the other kinds of writing that people use and have used for 5000 years. It introduces the general public to a topic that hardly anyone has heard about, so it clarifies basic linguistic terms as they occur. For...

A vivid, 'well-tempered' exploration of the foundations of psycholinguistics, combining theoretical ideas with lyrical examples to explain high-level ideas in a lively, accessible way. In a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories...

Discusses a special case of syntax-morphology mismatch that puzzles current traditional morphological theories – the case of relational adjectives across languages. In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic...

This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately. When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function and the circumstances under which it should be used in preference...

This book looks to expand the definition of translation in line with Susan Bassnett and David Johnston’s notion of the “outward turn”, applying this perspective to contemporary art to broaden the scope of how we understand translation in today’s global multisemiotic world. The book takes as its...

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In this first comprehensive analysis of 'uptalk', Paul Warren examines the phenomenon's historical origins, geographical spread and social influences. 'Uptalk' is commonly used to refer to rising intonation at the end of declarative sentences, or (to put it more simply) the tendency for people...

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years. From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas...

This book investigates a number of key terms in Irish -- duchas, duthaigh, dual and saoirse -- along with a number of associated terms and derivatives in order to show how their pragmatic, semantic and syntactic range evolved over time in relation to differing historical conditions, showing what...

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages. Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko Šipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing research, which focuses heavily on...

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence. Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almost 400...

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages. Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko Šipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing research, which focuses heavily on...

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this pioneering book provides a cutting-edge introduction to ritual language use. While ritual is often associated with phenomena such as ceremonies, cursing and etiquette, it actually encompasses something much more important: it includes all instances...

Choosing Success focuses on how good decision-making skills determine success in all aspects of life. From study skills to money management, Choosing Success applies active and service learning techniques as well as the 5C decision-making model to prepare students for success. By incorporating a...

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication. Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the world's leading...

This book systematically outlines the development of ancient Chinese. Consisting of 20 chapters, the self-contained work presents macro-level discussions on a broad range of topics, including: philology, phonology, exegetics, certain words’ special meanings, sentence types, the flexible use of...

Could we communicate with lifeforms on exoplanets? This thought-provoking book explores the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth. Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have...

Explores how UK wealth inequality is discussed in newspapers, with a particular focus on changes over the past forty-five years. Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the...

Lauren Elkin is an award-winning American translator and writer living in Paris, and author of BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Flaneuse: Women Walk the City'. With a translation of the original preface to the French edition and an afterword by Ros Schwartz. Selected by Gabriel Josipovici in Times...

This book discusses performance in communities of practice, social criticism through song, and how folk song and language interact. The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book...

A comprehensive overview of the political and legal consequences of linguistic inequality in the United States. Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of...

The first major comparison of heritage languages' variable grammar, this book uses quantitative methods to study three generations' speech. Heritage language speakers often feel discouraged from using their heritage language because they are told they do not speak it well. This book offsets such...

A fun entrance point to linguistics, this accessible book uses online cat discourse to introduce a wide range of concepts. After conquering the Internet, cats are now taking on linguistics! Since the advent of social media, cats have become a topic central to online communication, and the...

This Element shows classical translation as inherently creative in practice with new approaches shaping dialogue and genres. This Element surveys transmissions of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures, often straddling boundaries between translational responsibility and...

Provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposing no prior knowledge of Latin or...

Learn how to build machine translation systems with deep learning from the ground up, from basic concepts to cutting-edge research. Deep learning is revolutionizing how machine translation systems are built today. This book introduces the challenge of machine translation and evaluation -...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures. It is increasingly important in our globalised world for people to successfully manage interpersonal relationships. This is the first book to tackle this vital...

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures. It is increasingly important in our globalised world for people to successfully manage interpersonal relationships. This is the first book to tackle this vital...

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed. A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics...

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Carnap gave a blueprint for describing the entire world using a limited vocabulary...

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to...

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed. A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics...

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial...

This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human communication and the use of language in its social context. Clearly written by a leading authority in the field...

This classic introduction is designed for students with no previous knowledge of phonetics in linguistics, speech therapy, and modern languages. It remains one of the best descriptions of the main topics in the study of phonetics. Формат: Скан PDf...

The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative traditionAccording to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light in the classic instance, a son...

Literacy in the Middle Grades has been crafted to answer the questions of teachers working with young adolescents. By addressing the realities of teaching in the middle grades - the changing needs of adolescents; the increasing diversity in the classroom; the constantly changing technology...

Discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals. Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive to...

Ten years since the eruption of the Arab Spring, El Mustapha Lahlali explores the dialectical relationship between discourse and social change during and post the conflict. In particular, the book examines how Arabic public and political discourse shapes and is shaped by the wider social...

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English. Alongside a systematic discussion of these forms, Professor Dixon explores and explains the hundreds of conundrums that seem to be exceptions to general rules. Why, for...

The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of its wide-ranging field. In 3,250 entries the Dictionary spans grammar, phonetics, semantics, languages (spoken and written), dialects, and...

Michael Forster here presents a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century (and beyond). His previous book, After Herder, showed that the eighteenth-century philosopher J.G. Herder played the fundamental role in founding modern philosophy of language...

Whatever you do and wherever you go, you use language to interact. This text explains what human language is and how it works, giving you a look into the multiple fascinating and surprising facets of this uniquely human trait. You’ll find many opportunities to ask your own questions and explore...

Do you want to develop, enhance and refine your Arabic media language, translation and analytical skills? Then this is the book for you. It gives you a broad range of exercises on reading comprehension, speaking, writing and listening, based on a wide variety of media texts and audio materials...

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time. Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves...

This lively textbook introduces readers to the formal theory of syntax, presenting contemporary insights without unnecessary technical detail. Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like...

Offers an innovative, holistic and evidence-based pedagogic approach to deeper learning for all subjects of schooling. If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills...

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years. From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas...

The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages. Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings about the distribution of agreement patterns in the world's...

Noam Chomsky is not only one of the most influential, but also one of the most controversial figures in 20th century linguistics. In view of the polarization of opinions on Chomsky, giving a balanced account of Chomskyan linguistics is an ambitious venture. The approach chosen here is to...

Offers an innovative, holistic and evidence-based pedagogic approach to deeper learning for all subjects of schooling. If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills...

A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind. Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called 'the prison house of language' - the widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it comes to articulating the rich and disparate contents of the human...

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement. Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our...

Presents the collective practices of political translation, which help multilingual and culturally diverse groups work together more democratically than homogeneous groups. At a time when the legitimacy of democracies is in question, calls to improve the quality of public debate and deliberative...

The sound shape of words carries meaning for its users and also bears a range of social and interactional functions. We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of the arbitrariness of the...

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time. Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves...

Bringing together twenty-five years of research, Why We Gesture offers a radical new perspective on gesture-speech unity. Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely...

Essential study guides for the future linguist. Essential study guides for the future linguist. Language and Power is an introduction to how English is used to influence, persuade and position us within hierarchies. It is suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input...

Coverage across languages exhibiting phenomena underlying key theoretical understanding of linguistic tone, extending to music and poetry. The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological patterning that unveils structures beyond differences in pitch heights and contour...

Essential study guides for the future linguist. Essential study guides for the future linguist. Language Development is an introduction to how we learn to speak, read and write. It is suitable for advanced level students and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it...

This Element theorises translation as creative-critical practice by challenging the separation between practice and theory. In Translation as Creative-Critical Practice, Delphine Grass questions the separation between practice and theory in translation studies through her analysis of...

Today's struggle for free speech is placed into historical context to explore how laws protect, or threaten, less-powerful speakers. The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what...

This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language. Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has...

By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy. Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan...

A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama. This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengtheners, statement hedges...

A concise, original overview of the History of English, focusing on its early development and subsequent spread around the world. English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with native-speaking communities at the furthest ends of the earth. However, just three thousand...

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The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period. This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach...

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part. As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly large units of coherent speech, including narrative descriptions of events. This book examines...

Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a novel theory of syntax, which analyzes grammar from a semantic perspective. Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to...

Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access. Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional...

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area. This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language typology, phonology...

A lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts. The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This...

An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter. Languages around the world organize their lexicons, or vocabularies, in a myriad of different ways. This book is a celebration of global linguistic diversity...

A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts. Referential expressions include terms such as determiners, proper names, noun phrases, pronouns, and all other expressions that we use to make reference to things...

An accessible and comprehensive breakdown of how speech is produced, acoustically-transmitted, analyzed, and interpreted by the human brain. Speech is the most effective medium humans use to exchange and transmit knowledge, ideas and experiences. It exists physiologically as neural and muscular...

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research. Combining statistical modelling and archival study, English and Empire investigates how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters have been voiced in British fiction...

A lively and accessible introduction to world Englishes, setting a range of global varieties in their historical and social contexts. The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. This...

Who travelling through Totteridge and Whetstone is aware that the station got its name from the medieval soldiers who sharpened their swords at the whetstone before the bloody Battle of Barnet? Or that Canary Wharf was built for importing fruit from the Canary Islands? Or that Shepherd’s Bush...

Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and techniques of persuasion. Delving into descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts spanning across classical monographs...

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A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a variety of texts—ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets—to outline the populist character of...

Localization is everywhere in our digital world, from apps to websites or games. Our interconnected digital world functions in part thanks to invisible localization processes that allow global users to engage with all sorts of digital content and products. This textbook presents a comprehensive...

This extensively updated second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to argumentation skills for undergraduates. Clearly written, with minimal technical jargon, the book features many contemporary real-world examples. Through a unique conceptual framework, students will learn how to...

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has...

What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics. In this practical and comprehensive field...

Outlines a theory which centers a principle that requires all grammatical dependencies to be Merge mediated. The Merge Hypothesis is the central empirical theoretical contribution of the Minimalist Program (MP) to syntactic theory. This book offers an accessible overview of the MP, debunking...

In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies-including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of...

This book describes the earliest reconstructable stages of the prehistory of English, focusing specifically on linguistic structure. It outlines the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, considers the changes by which one dialect of that prehistoric language developed into Proto-Germanic, and provides...

In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the courageous and the kind -- concepts that somehow combine evaluation and non-evaluative description. Thick...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways. First, David J. Lobina examines how recursion applies at different levels within a full description of natural language. Specifically, he identifies and evaluates recursion...

This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics...

This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways in which words change in form and...

This book offers an introduction to the analysis of meaning. Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing feature of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement...

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results...

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a...

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory that definite descriptions are devices of...

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the ancient Greek vocabulary used to describe the local origins of individuals. It sheds much new light on ancient grammarians, and other ancient writers (many of them 'lost' in the sense that they survive only in quotations in later...

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe′s discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to...

This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of...

"An exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It’s been a key text in my classes for over a decade and, as fresh and relevant as ever...

It′s good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly. Good to Talk? is an attempt to...

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has...

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand...

Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise, sometimes there is no better way to make the...

This book gives a general theory of rational belief. Although it can be read by itself, is a sequel to the author's previous book The Value of Rationality (Oxford, 2017). It takes the general conception of rationality that was defended in that earlier book, and combines it with an account of the...

In the third edition of this bestselling introductory textbook, Richard Ogden presents the concepts, terminology and representations needed for understanding how English is pronounced globally. He guides you through the vocal tract, explains clearly how the sounds of speech are made, and...

Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the least widely known. Adamson introduces us...

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and...

Presents Australian linguists' engagement in the law through research, expert evidence and practical applications, highlighting contributions to legal understanding of language. This Element presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert linguistic evidence in...

This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in which claims of ability are-in certain temporal contexts-interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of as descriptions of potentialities or possibilities. Although actuality inferences evidently arise in the interaction...

What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been one of the most prominent...

Pedagogical principles and practices to integrate social justice issues into your language classroom Covers social class and neoliberalism, intersectionality, race, ethnicity and antiracism, environmental justice, gender and sexual identity Includes problem-posing and reflective tasks, sample...

This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana also known as Logba. The system is notable in several respects. It exhibits features that buck certain typological trends, act as counterexamples to some claims about...

Successful word-coinages -- those that stay in currency for a good long time -- tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the...

Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome', this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the performative elements that create and shape characters for an audience. By exploring fictional language...

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal...

A unified and accessible introduction for graduate courses in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Introduces the two most common numerical methods for heat transfer and fluid dynamics equations, using clear and accessible language. This unique approach covers all necessary...

Covers the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made. By Peter Roach. Part of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series. Phonetics is an essential part of linguistics, as it is through analysing spoken language that linguistic data is collected. This book leads the...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide...

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary He has...

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege, Russell, Carnap, and Strawson. He argues that...

On Goodness attempts to answer the question "What is goodness?" It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to ethics. Water and wine, a strategy for streamlining maintenance operations, and an oil painting may all be good and in non-ethical ways. Goodness...

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all...

This book investigates the properties of Latin nouns that have a systematic correspondence with a clause structure - referred to as verbal nouns - on the basis of data from a range of text types, both narrative and technical. Olga Spevak explores the much-debated concepts of 'abstract nouns' in...

This book discusses performance in communities of practice, social criticism through song, and how folk song and language interact. The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book...

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and...

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In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology. Their approach, Relational Morphology, extends the Parallel Architecture developed by Jackendoff in Foundations of Language (2002), Simpler Syntax...

Secondary ELA teachers, be excited: here at last is that crash course in utilizing the best of what we already know about teaching reading, writing, and language to ensure our English learners thrive. Take Penny Kittle and Donalyn Miller’s reader’s workshops. Take Kylene Beers and Robert...

Cultural psychology. Competences are not preferences. Bicultural competences and identities in Language, symbols, and values/practices. This Element offers a new theoretical model of acculturation within the general framework of cultural psychology. It is divided into four sections. First...

Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity. All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and...

Child psychology as a scientific enterprise is about 100 years old, but while numerous textbooks and practical guides are available, the more meditative questions about the nature of a child's mind are rarely asked. This book explores some of the enduring questions in developmental psychology...

Beautiful hand-bound volume showcasing the runic alphabets and how to read the meaning of the runes themselves. An alphabet developed by Germanic and Nordic peoples during ancient times, runes were used to represent both simple things and more complex concepts, providing a written form of...

A collection of essays on philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language The essays in Logos and Life, mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. There are numerous strands...

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This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication. In the early twentieth century...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and formation of some of the many thousands of new words that were coined in English during the nineteenth century in the broad field of ‘science’...

Bringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text. Based on...

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This practical guide offers step-by-step guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve...

The first comprehensive analysis of what it means to talk about fake news in U.S. politics and contemporary mass discourse. The term 'fake news' became a buzzword during Donald Trump's presidency, yet it is a term that means very different things to different people. This pioneering book...

This book highlights the roles of several individual difference (ID) variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. It presents the results of a large-scale, mixed-methods investigation which was conducted with secondary school...

The first book to document the ‘changing your mother tongue’ movement This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights...

This is a book in pursuit of translators’ philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula K. Le Guin and Langston Hughes, Translators on Translation coaxes each subject’s reflections on their art, their particular view of translation...

Designed to support English-teaching faculty across high schools and universities, this practical guide presents novel ideas for integrating pop culture into ELA classroom instruction. By establishing a theoretical framework rooted in critical and digital literacies, this book provides a solid...

This Element is an investigation into how language is used to represent the self and others through gender inclusive language. This Element presents an investigation into the use of the gender inclusive strategy schwa in a corpus of tweets; the schwa is employed in Italian to overcome...

How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible: Seven Hermeneutical Choices for the Old and New Testaments by Gary Edward Schnittjer and Matthew S. Harmon is an essential resource aimed at teaching a hermeneutic for understanding the Bible's use of the Bible. Intended for students of both testaments...

While engaging with the current political-educational climate of England, this book offers a timely contribution to debates around questions of knowledge in relation to education and school-level English by drawing together theories of individual and disciplinary knowledge. The book provides a...

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away. Join these two fun-loving adventurers as they take flight in a space rocket to the beautiful but misty land of Fab. Can Mindy and Mo help Fub the alien clear Fab’s sky of the glittering mist before it’s time to leave? What will the fallen tree be...

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away. Join these two fun-loving adventurers as they speed down a mountain on a sledge to a spring festival. Can Mindy and Mo help Sal cheer up Prince Sim and do his favourite dance together before it’s time to leave? What will the fallen tree be the...

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away. Join these two fun-loving adventurers as they whizz past dinosaur herds on the back of Dippy the diplodocus. They spot a traveller whose time machine is stuck in the mud. Can Mindy, Mo and Dippy help him free the time machine’s wheels before it’s...

Mindy and Mo love to play in a wood not far away. Join these two fun-loving adventurers as they get a lift from Titan the dragon to the wooded valley of the Tootles. Can Mindy and Mo help the Tootles make friends with Tub the troll before it’s time to leave? What will the fallen tree be the next...

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights, Second Edition is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. The...

Translation and Objects offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies, originating from the conviction that in today’s world translation is pervasive. Building on the ideas of scholars who have expanded the boundaries of the discipline, this book focuses on the analysis of objects...

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or undergraduates. It will also be useful for...

Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes nothing...

Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects...

This book investigates moral metaphors in English and Chinese, applying conceptual metaphor theory to a comparative study of the linguistic manifestation of the moral metaphor system rooted in the domains of bodily and physical experience. Ning Yu sheds light on the metaphorical nature of moral...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability judgments constitute the primary source of...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. Acceptability judgments constitute the primary source of...

This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to around the 5th century BC, drawing on all the tools of scientific historical and comparative linguistics. Don Ringe begins by outlining the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, focusing on its complex phonology, phonological rules...

"This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion, is so important. It’s exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom."...

For California teachers only! Here at last is that single teaching resource for making the critical link between the ELD Standards and the CCSS ELA Standards. Standard by standard, you’ll quickly discover how to integrate language development into your day-to-day content instruction, fully...

An insightful analysis of students' attitudes towards translating web-based sexual health content within a tutor-led queer pedagogy context. Sexual health campaigns to tackle the rise in sexually transmitted infections in England are at the core of sexual health charities' and grassroots...

This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of construction in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex determiner phrases with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de/sem embargo de, so(b)...

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence. Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almost 400...

For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies were shown to be impossible, and the very...

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches. Patrick Duffley brings to light the inadequacies of both of these frameworks, arguing that linguistic semantics must be based on the linguistic...

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches. Patrick Duffley brings to light the inadequacies of both of these frameworks, arguing that linguistic semantics must be based on the linguistic...

An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children...