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This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the ’Dark Matter’ of the title. We can iden......more
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Spoken language is a rapidly unfolding signal: a complex code that the listener must crack to understand what is being s......more
Spoken language is a rapidly unfolding signal: a complex code that the listener must crack to understand what is being s......more
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This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across lang......more
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Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the br......more
Illustrated with examples from a rich range of languages and genres, this book provides a state-of-the-art introduction ......more
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings ......more
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health iss......more
Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied t......more
Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building ......more
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In the third edition of this bestselling introductory textbook, Richard Ogden presents the concepts, terminology and rep......more
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Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how th......more
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This volume explores the compositional semantics of clausal complementation, and proposes a theory in which clause-embed......more
This book explores questions about the nature of an interlanguage grammar, i.e. the grammar of a bilingual. John Archiba......more
Mrs Mary Jeks, the author of these Six Phonics books, is a visionary scholar. Her Vision is derived from the divine mand......more
Each of the forty-four phonetic sounds has its unique symbol. For example, the symbol / /represents the short sound unde......more
This book is designed to be an early learning progressive aid subsequent to the successful completion of Book One. Havin......more
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Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the U......more
This book offers a new definition of metaphor-as an ontological and visual construction, whose roots are external visual......more
This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more ......more
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An introduction to generative phonology using tools of basic set theory, logic, and combinatorics. This textbook introdu......more
It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that ’the head’ and ’the heart’ are two opposing forces, a ......more
Much recent influential work within Generative grammar argues that syntax plays a key role in grammar and meaning compos......more
This volume addresses a number of issues in current morphological theory from the point of view of diminutive formation,......more
For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, to......more
Working with archival recordings, the authors trace the history of Missouri English and demonstrate how the voices of Mi......more
The significance of "meaning" goes beyond the word-level. Few disciplines, if at all, would do away with the knowledge a......more
The significance of "meaning" goes beyond the word-level. Few disciplines, if at all, would do away with the knowledge a......more
The positive disciplinary technique has shown to be a useful resource for teachers looking to develop creative problem-s......more
Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus primarily on British or American English, which fails to acc......more
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The first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology. This is the first English tr......more
Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to......more
The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to c......more
This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish......more
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Despite the considerable attention the topic of luck has received in ethics and epistemology, very little has been publi......more
An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning. In Meaningful Games, Robin Clark explains......more
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Mental representation is an unobservable internal code for a physical item with semantic properties such as content, ref......more
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The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and p......more
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What do ’bimbo, ’ ’glitch, ’ ’savvy, ’ and ’shtick’ all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal Americ......more
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional an......more
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This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation......more
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A poetic demonstration of the book form’s capacity to produce meaning, from the author of The Century of Artists’ Books ......more
This Element focuses on phonetic and phonological development in multilinguals and presents a novel methodological appro......more
Meaning lies at the very heart of the development of language. Therefore, it is not surprising that the linguists have l......more
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the langua......more
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from t......more
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What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, ’The Phoenix and Turtle’? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabe......more
An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of me......more
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Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of African American English (AAE), its use in ......more
This book demonstrates how silence is conceptualized and represented in Japanese language and culture. A cluster of soun......more
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