Language & Linguistics Books

For beginners to the Siswati language, it can be overwhelming to converse. This is the book to help bridge that gap. English speakers will be delighted to know that they can include many English words and phrases when speaking Siswati, making it easier...

A great gift idea for screenwriters: An unprecedented collection of exclusive interviews with Hollywood screenwriters, who reveal the secrets behind their successes and failures, offer uplifting stories about how faith in their talent has empowered their...

From The Three Stooges to Seinfeld, Born to Kvetch is a smart and witty portrait of Yiddish and its relationship to both Jewish culture and American life."An earthy romp through the lingua franca of Jews.... This treasure trove of linguistics, sociology,...

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ethical and responsible manner, the key features...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace brings new theoretical and methodological insights to the complex relationship between language, culture, and identity in professional settings. Examining the politics of...

The Routledge Intermediate Polish Reader is designed for intermediate students of Polish and includes a wide range of graded texts.The readings are taken from an assortment of contemporary Polish writing, including extracts from modern literature and...

This book is an in-depth analysis of participatory worlds, practices beyond the mainstream models of content production and IP management.

Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories by J. David Pleins is an innovative study reference for both introductory and advanced students of Hebrew, to help them remember vocabulary based on logical categories of related words. It includes over...

The Communication Lexicon is a new concept; it is a new source of information in the field of language and area studies. Its focus is on people's way of thinking, their frame of reference, their characteristic outlook on life...

The "function" and "notion" of literacy may be considered the keystone, a "filigree" principle underlying the educational, social, and cultural organiza­ tion of the societies of the twentieth century. It is therefore ...

vi the text can engender. Of course, translations by scholars of advanced standing are not a novelty in modern scholarship. The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative...

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule­ governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been...

Una raccolta di versi dove si incontra una poesia che ci parla della vita, dell'amore, della maternità, dell'essere figli, della sofferenza, dei sentimenti profondi del nostro cuore, delle tematiche urgenti del mondo in cui viviamo, in un ampio spettro...

Drawing on diverse cultural perspectives, Shi-xu critiques ethnocentrism in discourse studies in terms of its intellectual and cultural consequences. Further, he outlines a culturally pluralist stance that advocates the construction of theory and use of...

Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction; B.Pizziconi & M.Kizu PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY Modality, Modaritii and Predication - The Story of Modality in Japan; H.Narrog Modality from a Japanese Perspective; T.Masuoka West...

Speech communication can be disturbed. However, humans can understand utterances even if they do not recognise all the words. They just have to recognise the words that are critical for proper interpretation. Accentuated words are more likely to be...