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Acknowledgements; Preface; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What is failed humor?; 1.3 Why study failed humor?; 1.4 Background; 1.4.1 Language and interaction; 1.5 Discourse analysis and the study of (failed) humor; 1.6 Structure of the book; 2 Conceptual…
"This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly…
This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary agreement through clitics in non-standardized variation data from Limeño Spanish contact varieties (LSCV). As such it is concern…
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- The key features of the book -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Vowels -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Definitions -- Key terms -- 1.1 Linguistics and linguists -- 1.1.1 Linguistics -- 1.1.2 Linguist -- 1.2 Formal linguistics -- 1.2.…
Biographical note: Manuel Delicado Cantero, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. This book presents a historical and comparative syntactic analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses - traditionally called complement and adverbial clauses. This study examines the …
Biographical note: Mariusz Kami?ski, School of Higher Vocational Education, Nysa, Poland. So far there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that g…
Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with …
Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on sound studies and transmedial narratology, audionarratology combines concepts from both while als…
Main description: This pioneer volume assembles thirteen etymological studies covering a broad range of languages, focusing in particular Australian Indigenous languages. Etymology is understood in a broad sense as a type of historical research that aims at investigating the ori…
In 2014, Peirce will have been dead for one hundred years. The book will celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly, however, it will provide a major statement of the current …