Global English and Arabic

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 31
• This volume contains selected chapters from researchers and scholars concerning global English in the Arab world. It brings a new perspective to the p... Lees meer

Interactions in New Academic Discourses

Hang (Joanna) Zou

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 53
• This book explores how interactions are achieved in new academic discourses. Applying corpus-based analysis to academic blogs, online book reviews, ar... Lees meer

Discursive Constructions around Terrorism in the "People's Daily" (China) and "The Sun" (UK) before and after 9.11

Yufang Qian

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 23
• How have media constructions around terrorism changed since 9.11? This book analyses the ways that language is employed in the media to reference disc... Lees meer

Le langage préfabriqué

Fanny Forsberg

• Paperback | Frans | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 20
• Le langage préfabriqué suscite l'intérêt aussi bien de la linguistique générale que de la linguistique acquisitionnelle. La récurrence, la répétition ... Lees meer

Rules and Exceptions

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 34
• This book assembles a collection of papers first presented at the Summer School and Conference on the Method of Lexical Exceptions held at the Univers... Lees meer

Some Ethnolinguistic Notes on Polar Eskimo

Stephen Pax Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 37
• This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in ... Lees meer

Methodological Considerations in Morphological Processing Research

Zhaohong Wu

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 49
• With a comprehensive review of the relevant factors that first- and second-language morphological processing researchers need to take into considerati... Lees meer

Elements of Hermeneutic Pragmatics

Tahir Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 36
• Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? Using a hermeneutic approach to pragmatics, this book ... Lees meer

Discours et terminologie dans la presse scientifique française (1699-1740)

Claudio Grimaldi

• Paperback | Frans | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 43
• Ce volume analyse le rapport étroit qui existe entre la structuration des connaissances et l'évolution terminologique et langagière dans la presse sci... Lees meer

Perceiving Identity through Accent

Bettina Beinhoff

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 35
• Given the increasing use of English worldwide, attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English is a growing research area. This author argues ... Lees meer

One Word, Two Genders

Chiara Semplicini

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 38
• This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates why certain nouns have more than one gender. DGNs are shown... Lees meer

Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language

Prafulla Basumatary

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 42
• The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, parti... Lees meer

Semantics for Translation Students

Ali Almanna

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 40
• This book is an introduction to semantics for students and researchers who are new to the field, especially those interested in Arabic-English transla... Lees meer

Sourcing the Self

Kathy Pitt

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 21
• Social constructionists argue that our inner selves and our actions in the world are socially produced. Meta-realists, on the other hand, say that hum... Lees meer

Meanings at the Text Level

Thanh Nyan

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 2
• If language and the brain are co-evolved and language as a latecomer can avail itself of pre-existing means to solve its own problems, then it should ... Lees meer

A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage

Jean-Paul Kouega

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 10
• This book initiates the process of codification of a postcolonial variety of English, namely Cameroon English. It focuses on the present-day lexicon o... Lees meer

Academic Style Proofreading

Roxanne Barbara Doerr

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 54
• Academic style and its standards are often unclear to students and scholars. This book aims to unpack the concept of academic style proofreading using... Lees meer

Chinese Learners and the Lexis Learning Rainbow

Peiling Xing

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 22
• This book focuses on vocabulary acquisition in the areas of English language learning either in a foreign or a second language environment. Starting f... Lees meer

Linguistic Meaning and Non-Truth-Conditionality

Xosé Rosales Sequeiros

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 32
• This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It a... Lees meer

Form, Meaning and Aspect in the German Impersonal Passive

Michelle Leese

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 52
• This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The study challenges previous analyses a... Lees meer

The Past Tense in Polish and French

Magdalena Karolak

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 27
• This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Drawing on a selection of Polish lit... Lees meer

Towards a Better Understanding of Metonymy

Wojciech Wachowski

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 44
• The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, using the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The boo... Lees meer

Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 14
• This is a collection of papers that resulted from the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Shanghai... Lees meer

Digital Communication, Linguistic Diversity and Education

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 47
• This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in today's digitally netw... Lees meer