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Critical Introduction to Language Evolution
Current Controversies and Future Prospects
Häftad, 2019
839 kr
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This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or …
Word Formation in Parallel Architecture
The Case for a Separate Component
Häftad, 2019
562 kr
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This book aims to reconcile the generative considerations of Jackendoff’s Parallel Architecture (PA) with the European structuralist approach to naming. It shows that there are good reasons to single out word formation as a separate component in PA. It demonstrates that it is a drawback not to …
Language, Social Media and Ideologies
Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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This book seeks to contribute to the critical applied linguistics by investigating the dynamic role of English on social media, focusing on EFL university students in East Asia – Mongolia and Japan. Drawing on sets of Facebook data, the book primarily emphasizes that the presence of English on …
Portuguese as an Additional Language
Av Ana C. Neves
Häftad, 2019
562 kr
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This book focuses on Portuguese as an additional language and its young learners in threecase studies within the Portuguese-speaking world: Portuguese as a second language inCape Verde, Portuguese as a heritage language in Switzerland and Portuguese as a foreignlanguage in Macao SAR. The term …
Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists
Av Margaret E. Winters, Geoffrey S. Nathan
Häftad, 2020
728 kr
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This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory. This is followed by a description of how …
Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations
Persian Terminology Planning
Häftad, 2020
530 kr
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This book addresses one of the most crucial and common questions confronting planners of languages other than English, that is, how the impacts of global languages on local languages should be dealt with: internationalization or local language promotion? This empirical study examines the …
Perceptual Training on Lexical Stress Contrasts
A Study with Taiwanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language
Av Shu-chen Ou
Häftad, 2020
562 kr
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This book presents the effects of perceptual training on the perception of English lexical stress in rising intonation by Mandarin-speaking EFL learners in Taiwan, and shows that these effects can be positive as well as negative. The book is of interest to researchers in lexical stress and …
Why Language Documentation Matters
Häftad, 2021
815 kr
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This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of creating a record of the world’s fast disappearing languages. Language documentation provides data to challenge and improve existing …
Complex Syntax in the Language of Persons with Down Syndrome
Häftad, 2022
625 kr
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This book examines the language abilities of persons with Down Syndrome who are able to read. The text defends the ‘delayed but not deviant view’ of linguistic abilities by examining a range of syntactic phenomena that develop at different points for typically developing children, and for which a …
Paradox of Thought Experiments in Pragmatics
Häftad, 2026
621 kr
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The development of pragmatics has been shaped by thought experiments without which it could not have become an autonomous subfield of linguistics. However, their nature and their impact on current trends in pragmatics has not yet been made subject to systematic scrutiny. The book addresses that gap …
Designing Research on Bilingual Development
Behavioral and Neurolinguistic Experiments
Av Monika S. Schmid, Sanne M. Berends m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
562 kr
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This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical …
Translingual Practices and Neoliberal Policies
Attitudes and Strategies of African Skilled Migrants in Anglophone Workplaces
Häftad, 2016
653 kr
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This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests. While acknowledging that neoliberal agencies can appropriate diverse languages and language practices, …
Online Hate Speech in the European Union
A Discourse-Analytic Perspective
Av Stavros Assimakopoulos, Fabienne H. Baider m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This open access book reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate crime across a number of EU member states. It showcases the bearing that discourse analytic research can have on our understanding of this …
Study of Attitudes of Dialect Speakers Towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign in Singapore
Häftad, 2017
569 kr
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This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers towards Mandarin.Singapore may be only “a …
Sound and Meaning in East Cushitic Languages
Dhaasanac, Burji, Rendille, Somali, and Afar
Häftad, 2021
562 kr
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This book, one of the few English language publications on indigenous languages spoken in East Africa, highlights theoretical contributions on understudied East Cushitic languages, based on extensive data. It introduces readers to important fields such as the OT phonology and morphology of …
Hedges in Chinese-English Conference Interpreting
A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Interpreters’ Role Deviation
Av Juan Hu
Häftad, 2022
562 kr
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This book explored interpreters’ role when interpreting for Chinese government press conference and discovered the role deviation of conference interpreters in Chinese–English conference interpreting, by taking corpus-based approach to analyze hedges in interpreting discourse. So far, the discovery …
Southern Min (Hokkien) as a Migrating Language
A Comparative Study of Language Shift and Maintenance Across National Borders
Häftad, 2015
546 kr
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This book presents multilingualism as a social phenomenon, which arises when speakers of a different language move to a new society and learn to speak the dominant language of the society. It offers case studies of Hokkien migrating families when they encounter new languages in Burma, Macao and San …
Analysing Forced Migration
A Discourse-informed Approach
Av Charity Lee, Yating Chen m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
543 kr
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This book considers the specific features of forced migration research, which pose unique challenges when analysing data, and offers a range of analysis tools from discourse analysis. Drawing on real-world case studies from around the world, but particularly from the Global South, this book guides …
Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin
Av Yan Zhang
Häftad, 2025
340 kr
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This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this …
