Language teaching and learning material and course Books

This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched...

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Fieldwork in the Los Angeles Chicano Community The Social Context of the Chicano Community Phonetics and Phonology of Chicano English Syntax and Semantics of Chicano English Sociolinguistics of...

Introduction Agree, Move, A-Dependencies Complex dependencies: nominative objects. Complex dependencies: the quirkiest subject. References Index

This book investigates the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages, and it discusses the role of culture, the patterns of metaphor evolution, and...

The founding father of 'social capital', Pierre Bourdieu, said that treating the church as an economic enterprise would lead to uproar, disbelief and the laughter of the bishops. Yet, in the last couple of decades, policymakers and social scientists have...

This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification--the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as...

Each chapter of this book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroic leaders. Metaphors are shown to interact with...