Literary Linguistics – all Bücher, Page 7

Silke Brandt
Theory of Mind and Language Development

This Elements presents a series of studies investigating the relationship between language, Theory of Mind, and other cognitive skills, across different languages and cultures. The first set of studies fo…

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Alastair Pennycook
Language, Water, Power

This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations …

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Dylan Bumford, Simon Charlow
Effect-Driven Interpretation

Computer programs are often factored into pure components - simple, total functions from inputs to outputs - and components that may have side effects - errors, changes to memory, parallel threads, aborti…

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Dylan Bumford, Simon Charlow
Effect-Driven Interpretation

Computer programs are often factored into pure components - simple, total functions from inputs to outputs - and components that may have side effects - errors, changes to memory, parallel threads, aborti…

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The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context

For more than a decade, linguistics has moved increasingly away from evaluating language as an autonomous phenomenon, towards analysing it 'in use', and showing how its function within its social and inte…

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Tim Wharton, Louis De Saussure
Pragmatics and Emotion

It has long been received wisdom in semantics and pragmatics that 'the head' and 'the heart' are two opposing forces, a view that has led scholars, until now, to explore the mental processes behind cognit…

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Sarah E Duffy, Michele I Feist
Time, Metaphor, and Language

Across languages, time tends to be understood in terms of space. For instance, we might think of time as an unstoppable train heading towards us when we hear 'holidays are coming', or we might imagine tim…

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Akku&, David Embick, Mohammed A Salih
Case and the Syntax of Argument Indexation

This book draws on data from Sorani Kurdish to present an analysis of argument indexation, the process by which arguments in a clause are coindexed with grammatical markers that bear their features. This …

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András Kertész, Csilla Rákosi
Diverging Evidence in Semantics and Pragmatics

In recent years, research on the nature of linguistic evidence has gained significant attention. One key finding is that linguistic inquiry should not rely solely on a single source of evidence such as in…

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Sarah Buschfeld, Claus Weihs
Optimizing Decision Trees for the Analysis of World Englishes and Sociolinguistic Data

This Element introduces PrInDT (Prediction and Interpretation in Decision Trees), a statistical approach for modeling relationships between extra- and intralinguistic variables in World Englishes. It is b…

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M A K Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Jonathan J Webster
Verbal Art and Verbal Science

Over the course of history, humankind has relied on the power of language to impose regularities on experience and bring "the environment more within our power to control." Professor M.A.K. Hall…

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Language in Autism

A comprehensive exploration of language development and impairments in AutismLanguage is a critical yet understudied component of profiles across the autism spectrum. Language in Autism is a novel, interd…

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The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics

Written by a team of leading experts, this groundbreaking handbook provides the first comprehensive and current account of Natural Linguistics. It offers a state-of-the-art survey of the theoretical devel…

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Jennifer Rowsell
The Comfort of Screens

Are screens the modern mirrors of the soul? The postdigital condition blurs the line between screens, humans, physical contexts, virtual worlds, analogue texts, and time as linear and lockstep. This book …

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Paul Simpson,
Irony

Underpinning many common types of discourse, such as humour, sarcasm, politeness and satire, irony forms a crucial part of our everyday social interactions. But how well do we really understand its use, e…

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Wei He, Ruijie Zhang, Ran Gao
Ecological Discourse Analysis

This book presents the concerns, concepts and methodologies of Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA) based on the shared positions and practices of previous undertakings of discourse analysis. EDA is regard…

available from 9.7.2026.

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Louise Mycock
The Typology of Constituent Questions

This book explores and analyses the typology of constituent ('wh') questions within the non-derivational framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). Part I examines fundamental features of constituent …

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R Dian Dia-An Muniroh, E Aminudin Aziz
Forensic Linguistics in Indonesia

This Element examines the origins, development, and prospects of forensic linguistics in Indonesia, drawing on a survey of 53 participants and a systematic review of studies from 2011 to 2023. Emerging fr…

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The Handbook of Translanguaging

The authoritative reference work on Translanguaging, one of the most dynamic and fast-growing areas of research in modern linguistics Translanguaging has transformed how we understand language, bilinguali…

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Kirsten Malmkjær
Introducing Translation

Connecting theory, practice, and industry, this innovative introduction to the complex field of translation takes a can-do approach. It explores the latest advances in both research and technology, consid…

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