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 …
Media is now an integral constituent of any educational context. In particular, computer and internet media can have significant bearing on foreign language learning processes and outcomes. Such highly interactive and adaptable media can enable reflective, productive and communi…
Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Conducting qualitative research; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 Theoretical framework; 1.4 Previous work on intercultural couples in linguistics; 1.5 Outline of book; 2. Data collection and participants; 2.1 In searc…
Biographical note: Joachim Knape, University of Tübingen. In the 12 essays of this volume, Tübingen professor of Rhetoric Joachim Knape develops a series of approaches to a modern theory of rhetoric. In doing so, rhetoric is considered both a cultural and a communicative phenom…
This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian)…
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic pheno…
Main description: The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resultedin the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. Thebook addresses this gap by drawing together research from international scholars working in the field of Chinese a…
This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literatu…
