CK - Linguistics 6

Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows. It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the Am……続きを見る

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are gener……続きを見る

This book takes the form of a dialogue. It presents two authors, specialized in the phenomenologу, posing questions to each other and offering complex answers for critical discussion. The book inclu……続きを見る

How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers? How do teachers mediate the demands of the educational system, and how do the children adapt? W……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is an extremely popular programming l……続きを見る

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience. 続きを見る

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience. 続きを見る

The concept of politeness permeates all aspects of modern life and society. However, to what extent has this phenomenon changed over time? This book traces the elusive concept of politeness from its……続きを見る

Strengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized Words applies existing theories of persuasion to do……続きを見る

In this book, Ghil'ad Zuckermann introduces revivalistics, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation, revitalization, and reinvigoration. Applying lessons from the H……続きを見る

Analysis of language and discourse in social sciences has become increasingly popular over the past thirty years. Only very recently has it been applied to the study of social work, despite the fact……続きを見る

Wörter spielten und spielen in der Geschichte der linguistischen Beschäftigung mit Politik und politischer Kommunikation eine bedeutende Rolle. Standen am Anfang vor allem Arbeiten zum Schlagwortgeb……続きを見る

Namenmoden syn- und diachron behandelt Namenmoden und rezente Entwicklungen in der Namenforschung. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf deutsch- und romanischsprachigen Kultur- und Sprachräumen. Die 14 Beiträg……続きを見る

What skills do journalists exhibit in sensationalising, exaggerating and otherwise ‘tabloiding’ the truth, while usually stopping short of stating unambiguous falsehoods? Why has the tabloid news no……続きを見る

Words are the foundation of all communicationーthe foundation upon which we build our understanding of the world around us … of nature, philosophy, faith, and of ourselves. But where do those words ……続きを見る

Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and our remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. “A loosely c……続きを見る

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language is a hallmark of t……続きを見る

In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person i……続きを見る

'[A] clever, cosmic, moving and funny parenting physics and poetry adventure . . . It's wonderful' Max Porter via Twitter 'Clear, nimble and dexterous' Ocean Vuong 'It's a magical book. An incantati……続きを見る

This book aims to investigate the process of decision-making in subtitling of feature films and entertainment series. The author uses Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson,1986) to argue that the tec……続きを見る

The role of interaction and corrective feedback is central to research in second language learning and teaching, and this volume is the first of its kind to explain and apply design methodologies an……続きを見る

Sie haben Kontakt zu internationalen Geschäftspartnern, doch wenn Sie mit ihnen auf Englisch kommunizieren, fehlen Ihnen die (richtigen) Worte? Damit sind Sie nicht allein. Auch wenn die Schulzeit b……続きを見る

This bookaddresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments. NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstr……続きを見る

This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their seeming diversity. Indexical thoughts are mental representations, such as beliefs and……続きを見る

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Language and Migration provides a lively introduction to the relationship between language and migration. Drawing on real-world case studies from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East,……続きを見る

Corpus Linguistics for World Englishes offers a detailed account of how to analyse the many fascinating varieties of English around the world using corpus-linguistic methods. Employing case studies ……続きを見る

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive wri……続きを見る

In 'Vocal Speech for the Dumb' by Benjamin St. John Ackers, the author delves into the intricate world of linguistics and communication. Written in a poetic and profound literary style, Ackers explo……続きを見る

An introduction to the study of children's language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches. How children acquire language so qui……続きを見る