Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics
The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are...
EAN: 9781349333943
German Images of the Self and the Other
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German...
EAN: 9781349328543
Multimodal Texts from Around the World
A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by...
EAN: 9781349321407
Alliteration in Culture
Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including...
EAN: 9781349313013
Authority and Identity
This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The...
EAN: 9781349312894
Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia
Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language,...
EAN: 9781349482696
Language, Immigration and Labor
This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the...
EAN: 9781349453368
Spanish Perfects
This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic...
EAN: 9781349440238
Minority Language Promotion, Protection and Regulation
This is an analysis of the promises and contradictions surrounding contemporary minority language...
EAN: 9781349433445
Galician and Irish in the European Context
An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival...
EAN: 9781349365111
Diachronic Change in the English Passive
In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals...
EAN: 9781349363193
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing...
EAN: 9781349359097
Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense
This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of...
EAN: 9781349337927
Democratic Policies for Language Revitalisation: The Case of Catalan
A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan...
EAN: 9781349330232
Theory of Descriptions
The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It...
EAN: 9781349299362
Colloquial and Literary Latin
How did the Latin of casual conversation differ from that of formal writing? How much colloquial...
EAN: 9781107684416
Descriptions, Translations and the Caribbean
This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of...
EAN: 9783319409368
Language of Jokes
Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive...
EAN: 9781138144842
Analyzing Syntax through Texts
This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic...
EAN: 9781474420372
Revitalising Language in Provence
Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach questions the concept of language...
EAN: 9781119243533
Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis
This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and...
EAN: 9783319406053
Panel Studies of Variation and Change
This edited volume brings together the major researchers in the field of panel research,...
EAN: 9781138903906
Dawn
In this work, originally published in Dutch, Rik Smits theorizes that language could not have...
EAN: 9781412862578
