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This book offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination of Chinese inter-clausal anaphora, with a particular focus on conditional sentences. Building upon the foundational observations of Yuen Ren Chao (1968) and subsequent competing explanations, this book aims...
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Springer
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2025-10-06
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This volume brings together specialists in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The chapters draw on atlas data and historical sources, as well as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This volume explores the long-held assumption in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descriptive investigations, to dialect geography and philology, history, variation, language contact and sociolinguistics, and also...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of legal language, tracing its development from historical formulations to contemporary adaptations, including the emerging role of artificial intelligence in legal translation and communication. Through a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This open access book explores the mechanisms by which different audiences hearing the same comments made by the same speaker in the same context come to different interpretations as to the meanings behind them. The study uses a ‘pragmacognitive’ approach...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-30
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This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. The author challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined solely by a nominative-accusative alignment system through a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This volume explores and rearticulates the relationship between language and prejudice. Language plays an important role in the conceptualization, enactment, and defence of prejudice at both the individual and institutional level. Language (and language users) can also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This volume explores and rearticulates the relationship between language and prejudice. Language plays an important role in the conceptualization, enactment, and defence of prejudice at both the individual and institutional level. Language (and language users) can also...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of foreign language anxiety, grounded in a wide range of empirical research. It addresses key issues central to the study of language anxiety and presents the most effective and commonly used research...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book delves into psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of lexical activation, availability, and production in English or Spanish as additional languages in classroom settings. Instead of focusing sociologically and pedagogically on lexical availability, this...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of how archaeology, genes, and language can be combined to shed light on the human past. Our understanding of human prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the growth of interdisciplinary...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-15
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This book explores the intersection of writing theory, language simplification, and academic communication, with a specific focus on integrating plain English into doctoral education. Through five comprehensive chapters, the book discusses essential topics such as the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-04
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This book aims to illustrate and explain the “Cognitive Metaphorology” from experiential and cultural perspectives and highlights two prominent features of cognitive metaphor: multidimensionality and cross-sphere application.This book demonstrates that...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This edited volume conducts linguistic and literary analyses of the discourse involving race, religion and royalty (3R) in Malaysia. Grounded in Discourse Studies, it reveals the language features and strategies that articulate the vitality of 3R in historical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book summarizes the main ideas to show that parts-of-speech of Chinese is the core issue of grammar research, while issue of verbs and nouns is the most important part. The views on them and their relationship directly affect researchers' understanding of many...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-29
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A new collection of literary criticism and brilliant insights from one of the giants of contemporary thinkingWho owns language? In Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi wa Thiong’o presents a series of essays that build on his vast wealth of work on...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-21
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Theoretische Ansätze zur Analyse literarischer Vortragskunst thematisieren gewöhnlich nur Teilaspekte, aber nicht das Zusammenspiel aller ihrer Faktoren, also von Akteuren, Zuhörern, Räumen, Performances, Vortragsvorlagen und Medientechniken. Auf der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-18
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A new edition of an essential pragmatics textbook, updated for a new generation of students Introduction to Pragmatics equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how context shapes language, covering both foundational concepts and cutting-edge issues with an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-08-08
Collection :
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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