Applied cognitive linguistics
by Pütz, Martin, Dirven, René, Niemeier, Susanne
fromCognitive linguistics research
Relevance theory
by Clark, Billy
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics Relevance Theory
Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into two parts - the first provid…
In multilingual societies speakers overcome traditional language boundaries. This volume links theoretical considerations with empirical evidence from data of spoken language use in Catalan, Croatian, English, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish as L1, L2 o…