Like its prequel, this book examines the nature/nurture debate in language, while also asking how language came to be part of our human nature in the course of evolution. Considering the multidisciplinary context of these debates, this book is ess...More info...
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
(Pub. Date: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111471556)
The Romance languages are primarily described in terms of their existence in Europe and America. French and Portuguese, in particular, are also widely spoken in Africa, where Spanish and faint traces of Italian can be found as well. This book exp...More info...
This book (1990) offers a historical perspective on literary English, from the mid-14th century to the 20th century. Through detailed analyses of individual texts and comparisons with texts from different periods, the authors build up a picture of t...More info...
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009445733)
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...More info...
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book aims to enable students to both grasp traditional histories of Englis...More info...
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009676052)
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...More info...
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...More info...
This volume introduces Alikyi, an Iranian language spoken on the southern fringe of the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea. The book offers a fresh perspective on Caspian linguistics. Highlighting the languages most significant featuressuch a...More info...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...More info...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...More info...
The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization) phenomena abound, in terms of its theoreti...More info...
This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geolinguistic diversity in the field and to expand our understanding of language variation and change....More info...
Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the socio-historical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of the Chinese Dream in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States....More info...
The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative sele...More info...
This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. This book is a fantastic reference for students and scholar...More info...
This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives þa – þara – þ...More info...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...More info...
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English groupi...More info...
