This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
This collection of articles presents the most important research in Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices. The book consists of two parts and will be of interest to philologists, teachers, and students.
The Semantics of Determiners
This book investigates determiners in Skwxwú7mesh Salish, which lack a definite/indefinite distinction. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic lines. A universal correlation between the syntax and semantics of determiners is proposed.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book explores the role of media in our modern, globalized world. Investigating communication through social sciences, cultural studies, and education, it offers unique insights from European countries in transition.
Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature
This volume is a conversation between pioneering research and traditional medievalism. These crucial essays offer multiple perspectives on the English Middle Ages, covering linguistics, literature, and translation, proving the dark ages provide foundations for new ideas.
Spatial Minds
To what extent is spatial language connected to conceptualization? This book investigates the similarities and differences in Hungarian, Croatian, and English, analyzing expressions like *in, on,* and *at* to shed light on the relationship between language and the mind.
Heritage and Exchanges
This bilingual text represents the proceedings of a seminar held at the University of La Reunion in 2014, and offers a reflection on scholarship and plural identity constructions, with a specific focus on the Indian Ocean area, an unexplored region in current scholarship.
Negotiating Solidarity
This book explores the linguistics of job interviews, showing how candidates use language to construct professional identities and build rapport. Using authentic interviews, it highlights the communicative choices that succeed or fail to influence the hiring decision.
Innovation in Methodology and Practice in Language Learning
This state-of-the-art volume presents 24 papers on the challenges and innovations in university language centres, from new technologies to evolving pedagogy, revealing how these vital institutions adapt and thrive.
This volume showcases original experimental studies on language processing. It focuses on word access, vocabulary acquisition, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
This book presents a selection of papers on Language Acquisition with a special focus on Romance varieties. The volume covers a wide array of topics, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, syntax, semantics, and phonology.
A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
a Wilderness of Signs
While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.
This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
ESP has accumulated substantial tradition in practice, research and theory, and is a common approach in English Language Teaching among adults today. This text explores research conducted in this field in order to assist its recognition as an autonomous academic discipline.
Talk in Institutions
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
News as Changing Texts
Following the beginnings and development of seventeenth-century English periodical print news, this book explores how contemporary news writers responded to presentational, communicative and financial concerns. It will be of interest to both historians and linguists.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
For those who doubt that the actor from Stratford wrote the works of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe has always been the leading candidate. This book’s research firmly supports the theory that Marlowe, living on after he supposedly died, was the main hand behind the works.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.