Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
Review text: "This volume is remarkable in its broad linguistic approach, both promising and offering new insights."Rolf Kemmler in: Linguist List 23.2358.
Análisis del discurso y registros del habla
by Hernando Cuadrado, Luis Alberto, Penas Ibañez, Ma. Azucena, Alberto Hernando, García-Cervigón, Azucena Penas, Ibáñez, Fernando Martínez, de Carnero Capítulo, Francisco Manuel Carriscondo, Esquivel, Jairo Javier García, Sánchez, Javier Perea Siller, Capítulo, Luis Alberto Hernando, Cuadrado, Manuel Martí, Sánchez, Sara Robles, Ávila, Xavier Gil, Laborda
fromLingüística Iberoamericana
A Grammar of Afrikaans.
This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu, casting new and long-lasting light on the issue. Embedding exhaustive and rigorous linguistic comparisons in a detailed and novel historical framework, the study convincingly …
Thetwo volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory artic…
The present volume is devoted to the study of language use in translated texts as a function of various linguistic, contextual and cognitive factors. It contributes to the recent trend in empirical translation studies towards more methodological sophistication, including mixed m…
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutti…
Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL mo…
The linguae & litterae series, edited by Peter Auer, Gesa von Essen and Werner Frick, documents the research activities of the School of Language and Literature of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). These research activities in literary studies and linguistics …
Main description: This book presents cutting-edge papers on methods in prosody research, in which experts in the field discuss the gathering, treatment, and interpretation of spoken-language data. Covering a wide range of approaches, the volume will serve as a handbook, allowing…
Main description: With its 60 articles on some 200 terms, the dictionary provides a description of the individual concepts in which 17th and 18th century thinking on language was represented in texts. Account is taken not only of the synchronic perspective and the continuation o…
Pragmatics of Fiction
by Jucker, Andreas H., Locher, Miriam A.
fromHandbooks of Pragmatics HOPS
Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fict…
Main description: The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general issues such as the genomic discourse. It demonstrates that the tec…