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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity*,* focusing onhow negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation**. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored...
Pragmatics and Law
Practical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences. An international group of authors, from cognitive science, philosophy of language...
Noun Phrases and Nominalizations
The Syntax of DPs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study examines the functional structure, offers a structural definition of syntactic...
New Speakers of Minority Languages
Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated. It highlights the ways in which legal consent is often fictional (at best) due to the impoverished view...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context...
Modern Arabic
Structures, Functions, and Varieties, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
The revised and updated edition of Modern Arabic takes this authoritative, concise linguistic description of the structure and use of modern Arabic to an invaluable new level. Clive Holes traces the development of the Arabic language from Classical Arabic, the written language used in the 7th century...
Advancing Methodology and Practice
The IRIS Repository of Instruments for Research into Second Languages
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Instruments for Research into Second Languages is an accessible introduction to understanding and evaluating existing and emerging methodologies in L2 research. The book provides an introduction to the data collection materials available in the IRIS database. IRIS is an open access, searchable repository...
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book evaluates the origins of processes of change in language teaching in China, and the factors influencing their success. Examining diverse experiences and drawing on the perspectives of academics from the top institutions in the country, the authors analyse the complex interplay between global...
by Stuart Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The dynamics of immigration, international commerce and the postcolonial world make it inevitable that much translation is done into a second language, despite the prevailing wisdom that translators should only work into their mother tongue. This book is the first study to explore the phenomenon of...
Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth
The Transition from Home to School
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society. Profiling a range of different communities and sociolinguistic contexts, this book examines the language ecologies of their local communities,...
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
Volume 2, Syntax (first volume)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
Discourses of Ageing and Gender
The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages contained in public discourse...