Speech practices as discursive practices for meaning-making across domains, genres, and social groups is an under-resear......more

This book offers a range of complementary perspectives on Audiovisual Translation. Inquiries of linguistic, cultural, so......more

The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizati......more

Language acquisition has been the subject of decades of research. Most of the previous research on second language acqui......more

While migrant workers become the backbone of China’s fast growing economy, internal migration and its impacts on various......more

In today’s world, the English language exerts an unprecedented influence internationally, and its echoes are present in ......more

Diminutive constructions in English provides an analysis of form and meaning of English diminutives with selected suffix......more

The study presented in this book aimed to test the argument structure of ditransitive verbs in Polish with the use of qu......more

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Dieser Sammelband reflektiert Kompetenzen aus Sicht der Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik und setzt sich mit den aktuellen B......more

This thoroughly revised edition helps those who have already acquired the basics of German and wish to extend their flue......more

This volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary semiotic theory, focusing on diverse areas such as p......more

The Gravitational Pull Hypothesis is an attempt to provide a cognitive account for features of translated language. This......more

For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This......more

Synergy II: Linguistics intends to present recent studies on Turkish linguistics. The aim is to introduce theoretical an......more

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This study is a sociolinguistic investigation of digital comments located on news reporting websites on the subject of r......more

The book investigates how the multiple senses of a Chinese polysemous lexical item are perceived by Chinese native (L1) ......more

Despite the undeniably impressive achievements of the EU, forms of resistance to the European integration process remain......more

This book explores simultaneous trilingual siblings’ code switching behavior focusing on their minority language develop......more

This volume provides a sociophonetic study of the urban accent of Aberdeen. It shows how dialect contact has led to adop......more

A Day in the News is the linguistic description of a single day in the life of the British press - Wednesday, 19 August ......more

This book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars. For these purposes, experimental data from 21......more

This book shows how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can benefit from the cooperation with a variety of other l......more

Numeral constructions in Polish are known for their complex morpho-syntax: in particular, depending on the type, case an......more

The book proposes to see the talk about rules-following as a way of giving an account of particular people’s characters ......more

This monograph is a pioneering discourse-oriented study on gambling. Adopting the approach of critical discourse analysi......more

The aim of the present book is to examine the social and cultural diversity of language teacher education, providing a u......more

Scientific insight is obtained through the processes of description, explanation, and prediction. Yet grammatical theory......more

Winner of the Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Early Career Researchers 2023 from the Spanish Association for Applied......more

Research on narrative production plays a central role in linguistics, psycholinguistics and language acquisition. Narrat......more

The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course o......more

English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.g. Dutch zelf, Swedish själv, etc.) are used in tw......more

This book investigates the linguistic status of predication, especially within the generative paradigm. The topics discu......more

This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from sy......more

This volume collects selected papers written by young translation scholars who were CETRA 2014 participants. This book a......more

This book focuses on video game translation from the perspective of cognitive semantics. It presents how the translators......more

The papers contained in this collection represent a cross-section of research and teaching interests at the turn of the ......more

Textbooks have long been considered a pivotal learning and teaching resource in classrooms. However, there is a paucity ......more

This book explores pragmatemes - fixed units used in specific contexts (e.g., "Bless you" after sneezing), which are cru......more

This book includes analyses of twenty-first century literature about the Holocaust. The international scholars highlight......more

The book shows Germanic preterite-present verbs in a new light. Ch. 1 sketches answers about fundamental concepts associ......more

This study analyzes circumlocutions in Tok Pisin using a corpus from Wantok Niuspepa. It examines their frequency, struc......more

This book researches the competition between overt suffixation and zero-affixation for the nominalization of the semanti......more

Cua is a Kalahari Khoe language spoken in southeastern Botswana (Kweneng District). It is closely related to languages s......more

The book discusses the relationship between belonging, identity and the Afrikaans language of the Coloureds of the so-ca......more

The Book of Proceedings features a selection of papers presented at the 54th Linguistics Colloquium: "Linguistic Encodin......more

The aim of this book is to provide a comparative analysis of intra- and inter- linguistic features, setting a benchmark ......more

This volume presents different - and even less common - perspectives on identity construction as an interactional practi......more

This volume presents a study edition of the lectures delivered by Charles Peirce to the Lowell Institute in Boston in th......more

A relevant question in modern legislative process is related to the effects of ’context’ at different levels, within whi......more

Linguistics has always been interested in the dynamics and manifestations of the interaction of linguistic phenomena and......more

The approach to meaning has evolved from structuralist analyses to examining the combinatory potential of grammatical st......more

The contributors to this volume take up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized tests, the acknowledgemen......more

The fact that English has always borrowed heavily from other languages is well known. However, the systemic long-term ef......more

This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns th......more

The work is intended as an aid for those who aspire to create multilingual LSP collocational dictionaries. Apart from an......more

Les genres discursifs, pensés comme outil théorique nécessaire pour faciliter la production et la réception des textes, ......more

This volume focuses on the connection between participation constellations and identity construction as a specific, yet ......more

The main purpose of the book is to explore whether native speakerism has an influence on Polish language schools, using ......more

This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contribut......more

The primary objective of this study is to propose a comparative analysis of the political TV interview with reference to......more

The study of anglicisms and of the complex network of related categories has deeply evolved in the first two decades of ......more

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This study analyzes the use of conceptual metaphors on Polish and American internet forums for mothers. In order to achi......more

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and th......more

The famous scholar of Indo-European syntax Berthold Delbr ck (1842-1922) published this study of Sanskrit syntax in 1888......more

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The book gives a broad understanding of images as carriers of archival value and elaborates on their fundamental role as......more

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The text used for this edition of Euripides’ Hecuba is based on the editor’s own manuscript studies; a prose translation......more

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of English Linguistics and features selected contributions from t......more

The volume is a collection of twelve carefully selected chapters covering the most in-depth and innovative studies in th......more

The volume proposes a comprehensive collection of carefully selected studies investigating some of the most intriguing p......more