Linguistics category: 5616 books
Speaking Our Minds
Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication?
Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science,...
by Paul J.E. Dekker
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the book’s core lies a pragmatically motivated notion of a dynamic...
by Jae Jung Song
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this widely debated topic, exploring and evaluating word order research carried out in four major theoretical...
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection...
Creative Writing for Critical Thinking
Creating a Discoursal Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative writing, and details how learning through writing...
Language Evolution
The Windows Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state-of-the-art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory chapter on interdisciplinarity...
Code-Switching in Conversation
Language, Interaction and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research.
Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view of the field of metaphor and language, and...
Not Just a Laughing Matter
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of scholars from a variety of disciplines...
Communication Across Cultures
Mutual Understanding in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Communication Across Cultures is an academic reference for university students and interdisciplinary researchers who have no specialised knowledge of linguistics. Key concepts relevant to an understanding of language issues in intercultural communication are drawn from the research area of pragmatics,...
by Mikhail Kissine
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention....
Understanding Morphological Rules
With Special Emphasis on Conversion and Subtraction in Bulgarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
This volume analyzes morphological and morphonological phenomena from a number of distinct Slavic languages. It does so in an innovative manner, yet also positions the analysis in the context of current morphological debates. It is thus a valuable contribution both to comparative Slavic morphology...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics,...