This book adopts various newly emerged and established approaches to text analysis, including pragmatics, discourse anal......more

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second l......more

This volume posits that evidentials and other types of epistemic marking (i.e. epistemics) are deictic forms, indexing k......more

Developmental research is abandoning formal syntax, probably because Chomskyan generative syntax lacks psychological rea......more

This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantita......more

This volume contributes to the growing body of cutting-edge research into the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approa......more

Delve into the fundamental architecture of the English language with Lillian Kimball’s seminal work, "The structure of t......more

Delve into the fundamental architecture of the English language with Lillian Kimball’s seminal work, "The structure of t......more

This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject as......more

This book seeks to build further links between (im)politeness research and autism by countering prevailing notions in pr......more

The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthes......more

The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primar......more

Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language......more

The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthes......more

On the basis of a corpus of Old Irish texts justified and described in the introductory chapter, this monograph consider......more

This book explores medieval pragmatic theory across diverse social discourses, revealing how pragmatic thinking permeate......more

This volume explores how metadiscourse shapes communication across cultures and time. Drawing on contemporary and histor......more

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zähl......more

This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their developm......more

Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its d......more

This volume presents contemporary research across various facets of Maltese linguistics. Part I examines Maltese from a ......more

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit an......more

An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological obj......more

This book is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of linguistics (semantics/pragmatics), experimental litera......more

Mandip General English Grammar is a comprehensive and student-friendly guide designed to simplify English grammar throug......more

The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech p......more

Drawing on media interview materials, this book takes a holistic approach to examining the Chinese discourse marker ni z......more

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Applying discourse analysis within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study offers a fresh ree......more

Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used......more

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide rang......more

This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Syste......more

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This book promotes a teaching approach which builds on learner experience, assets and knowledge. By exploiting existing ......more

Abstract nouns - power, privilege, race, gender, and identity - can embody varied positions that polarize the discourse ......more

The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean offers a new perspective on th......more

Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new de......more

Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new de......more

This second volume examines asymmetry in language by focusing on how linguistic form and meaning align or diverge. Build......more

This work is a descriptive reference grammar of Hmong, as spoken in the diaspora in North Queensland, Australia. Hmong i......more

This book integrates perspectives from conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology to shed light on doctor-pati......more

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Deconstructing Syntactic Theory is a critical examination of the assumptions and methodologies of contemporary derivatio......more

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched......more

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Temporal reference, the linguistics means by which we situate events in time, is a crucial aspect of discourse analysis ......more

Linguistic theory refers to the study and development of formal frameworks that aim to explain the structure, function, ......more

Syntactic analysis involves understanding how sentences are structured using detailed rules and information about words.......more

Syntactic analysis involves understanding how sentences are structured using detailed rules and information about words.......more

Syntactic analysis involves understanding how sentences are structured using detailed rules and information about words.......more

Syntactic analysis involves understanding how sentences are structured using detailed rules and information about words.......more

A mathematical formalization of Chomsky’s theory of Merge in generative linguistics. The Minimalist Program advanced by ......more

As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nou......more

This volume demonstrates how inductive research into speakers’ metapragmatic knowledge offers a path for researching wha......more

This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidiscipl......more

Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in ling......more

This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents’ use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), i......more

Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member o......more

Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introdu......more

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general......more

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive syst......more

This book is a collection of research papers that focus on the development and use of different African varieties of Eng......more

This volume develops Functional Discourse Grammar’s innovative and unique approach to constituent ordering, both by refi......more

Uncovering an aspect of Gottlob Frege’s linguistic theorizing that has until now received little attention, this volume ......more

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Drawing on approaches from Linguistic Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Social Actor ......more

Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to en......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at......more

Emoji is everywhere--on messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and p......more

This edited book addresses current trends in digital discourse analysis. The central theme of the volume is the notion o......more

Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale c......more

In this book, seven experts in logic and semantics examine reasons for using the intensional operator approach over the ......more