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Manual of Romance Languages in Africa

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The official languages of...

Linguistics - An Introduction

Second edition of this highly successful textbook offering a unified approach to language from a range of perspectives.

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

An authoritative overview of language and speech disorders, featuring new and updated chapters written by leading specialists from across...

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

The new edition of the leading reference work on Clinical Linguistics, fully updated with new research and developments in the field The ...

Indo-Aryan and the Linguistic History and Prehistory of North India

The book offers a new perspective on the emergence and spread of Indo-Aryan in North India. Based on the analysis of more than 200 Indo-A...

Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation - Contributions in Honor of M. Rita Manzini

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This br...

A Grammar of the Malayalam Language

Based on years of personal experience in India, Joseph Peet's grammar of Malayalam was the first attempt by a western scholar to document...

Identity and Pragmatic Language Use - A Study on Japanese ELF Users

ELF (English as a lingua franca) research counters the monocentric view of English based on norms of native speakers of English, and supp...

The Morpheme - A Theoretical Introduction

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology. Particular emphasis is devoted to the way in whic...

Understanding Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms - Distribution and Function across Genres

This work is the first thorough study of tense, aspect, and modality (TAM) in light of the discourse functions of biblical Hebrew. Common...

Pragmatics at its Interfaces

All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, sugg...

Historical Linguistics and Language Change

Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order t...

Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction

This book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a theory of conversational competence. It is predicated on the as...

300 Jahre "Robinson Crusoe" - Ein Weltbestseller und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte

2019 jährte sich das Erscheinen von Defoes Robinson Crusoe zum 300. Mal. . In der Einleitung des Sammelbandes legt Christine Haug dar, un...

Resolution of Conflict of Interest in Chinese Civil Court Hearings - A Perspective of Discourse Information Theory

The rapid development of Chinäs economy has resulted in various kinds of conflict of interest (COI). This study focuses on how COI is res...

Kleine Formen und Öffentlichkeit - Medialität des Politischen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur digitalen Gegenwart

Kleine Formen sind jüngst in das Blickfeld literatur-, medien- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen geraten. Dabei wird oft das po...

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis

In the millennial transition the prefix 'post' had come to signify more and more not just the realisation of a 'coming after' but also of...

Not Eleven Languages - Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book chall...

Kiezenglish - Multiethnic German and the Global English Debate

Is English a threat to language diversity in Europe? This question has been hotly debated in language policy and planning in Germany and ...

Taboo in Discourse - Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication

Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discou...

Evidential verbs in the genre of medical posters - A corpus-based analysis

This volume aims to provide information about and interpretations of the concept of evidentiality lexically realized with certain verbs a...

Youth and Memory in Europe - Defining the Past, Shaping the Future

This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country's history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays...

Grammar between Norm and Variation

The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, ...

Akkadian Magic Literature - Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus - Context - Praxis

In Akkadian Magic Literature the authors present, for the first time, the complete corpus of Akkadian incantations of the Old Babylonian ...

Confessions of Love - The Ambiguities of Greek "Eros and Latin "Caritas

Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek 'Eros' and Latin 'Caritas' includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scho...

Gottfried Kellers Moderne / Kellers Welten - Territorien - Ordnungen - Zirkulationen

Gottfried Kellers Welten erscheint als dritter Band der Serie "Gottfried Kellers Moderne". Kellers Jahrhundert ist das der Industrialisie...

Haram in the Harem - Domestic Narratives in India and Algeria

Haram in the Harem focuses on the differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the expe...

FrC 16.6 Nausikrates - Nikostratos

This book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus. By reconstructing the text...

A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew - A Student's Guide

A Reference Grammar of Modern Hebrew provides a clearly-structured and accessible guide to all aspects of contemporary Hebrew grammar. Sy...

And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon - The reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's lyric and iambic poetry

This book explores, for the first time, the influence of Anacreon and the Anacreontic tradition on Horace's Odes and Epodes. It focuses f...

Learning Classical Tibetan: A Reader for Translating Buddhist Texts - A Reader for Translating Buddhist Texts

A modern and accessible reader of Classical Tibetan Buddhist texts based on the traditional monastic educational system, designed for bot...

Further Grammatical Topics - Further Grammatical Topics

R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The 3 volumes comprise...

The Functions of - Theory and Corpus Analysis

The author critically discusses the concept of ¿general nouns¿, which Halliday/Hasan introduced in their approach to lexical cohesion (19...

Muthos - Aristotle's Concept of Narrative and the Fragments of Old Comedy

This book presents a new analysis of Aristotle's concept of narrative in the Poetics. Arguing that the term muthos in the Poetics cannot ...

New Approaches to the Study of Linguistic Variability

The fourth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe features contributions from various philologies in t...

An Introduction to Young Avestan: A Manual for Teaching and Learning - Translated from French into English by Richard Tahmaseb Niroumand

Avestan is the sacred language of the Zoroastrians in which they perform most of their rituals. It is known only from its use in the ritu...

A Coptic Grammar - With Chrestomathy and Glossary. Sahidic Dialect

This work by Bentley Layton is a newly revised, third edition of the standard reference grammar of Coptic in the classical Sahidic dialec...

The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information struc...

Kaqchikel Chronicles - The Definitive Edition

The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history fr...

Activating and Engaging Learners and Teachers - Perspectives for English Language Education

This book offers a nuanced, integrated understanding of EFL learning and instruction and investigates both learner and teacher perspectiv...

Teaching Girls on Fire - Essays on Dystopian Young Adult Literature in the Classroom

The rise of YA dystopian literature has seen an explosion of female protagonists who are stirring young people's interest in social and p...

Translation Today: National Identity in Focus

The book aims to present a comprehensive palette of new approaches and diverse topics in the field of Translation Studies, and specifical...

Mental Health in English Language Education

Mental health has become a growing concern in today's society, with schools emerging as focal points for addressing this topic. The prese...

Metaphor in Discourse

This book discusses metaphor at work in a variety of linguistic contexts, from election leaflets to specialist scientific articles.

Sounds of English Worldwide

An in-depth exploration of the sound systems of varieties of English around the world, written by a renowned authority in the field In So...

Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies

This volume is a collection of studies dealing with age or, rather, ages, mainly from a linguistic viewpoint, but also accommodating inpu...

Developing Information Competence in Translator Training

This book addresses the question whether translation students can successfully increase their information competence as a result of a pur...

The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

This Handbook examines the reasons behind the loss of linguistic diversity and what can be done to document and support endangered langua...

Semantics

The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new ch...

The Sounds of Language - An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

The fully updated, new edition of the bestselling introduction to phonetics and phonology The Sounds of Language presents a comprehensive...

Teach yourself Hindi

Are you looking for a complete course in Hindi which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting ...

Gender Shifts in the History of English

A groundbreaking study of gender in English from the Middle Ages to modern times.

Reimagined Communities - Rewriting Nationalisms in European Literary Discourses

These contributions offer fundamental insights into how literary works address and reconceptualize issues of nationalism, groupism, belon...

Translation and Interpretation - Practicing the Knowledge of Literature

The book explores the significance of literary translation and interpretation, in the widest sense of terms, as multiple processes of mea...

Analysing Discourse, Analysing Poland - The Case of a Political Interview

The contributors of the twelve texts collected in this volume follow two paths: Firstly, there is a methodological path related to the di...

Writing New England - An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present

Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the ori...

Arabic-english Dictionary

Constructional Change in English - Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change.

Phonetics - Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully updated and revised This broad, interdisciplin...

Studies in Japanese Bilingualism

This book helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering 12 empirical studies o...