This reference resource covers of all aspects of English literature from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. The 7th ed. has been thoroughly revised and updated with over 1,000 new entries.
In a reappraisal of some of the deepest debates in psychology this book details how the dominant cognitive approach to the subject of language fails, and makes a compelling case for understanding it as a kind of activity, as discourse.
This book challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultures…
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raisi…
"Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or the concept of informatio…
This is a grammar reference and practice book for elementary learners. Modelled on Raymond Murphy's "intermediate level English Grammar in Use", it concentrates on areas of grammar normally taught at elementary level.
Praktijkgerichte cursus Nederlands voor anderstaligen, bedoeld voor zelfstudie; met twee audio-cd's en een cd-rom.
