This title is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading a…
This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative research in five distinct a…
In this new book, well-known linguist Guglielmo Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. The articles gathered in the first part of the present volume deal with word order, while the second addre…
"Language, Society and Power is an introductory text to studying language in a variety of social contexts. It examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. This fourth edition has been co…
Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging productive reflection by classroom veterans.
'Metonymy and Language' presents a theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy…
This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich H©œlderlin (1770 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows H©œlderlins poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language t…
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
This is an introductory-level textbook focusing on linguistic pragmatics; the transdiscipline that studies language- and culture-specific forms of language use as social action. Languages are used by their speakers in multimodal social interactions according to language- and cul…
