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Douglas Robinson
A Zombie Theory of Translation

In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the …

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Zeki Hamawand
English Lexical Semantics

"Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains th…

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Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang, Harald Baayen
The Discriminative Lexicon

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both …

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Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte
Translating His-Stories

Following Hayden White and the critical historiography of the 1960s, the idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. This implies that retelling stories can var…

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Phil Freestone
Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities

This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-iden…

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The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Now in its second edition, this Handbook is a current overview of Second Language (L2) research, providing state-of-the-art synopses of recent developments in each sub-area of the field, and bringing toge…

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Meiyuan Zhao
An Extraordinary Chinese Translation of Holocaust Testimony

This Element focuses on two Holocaust testimonies translated into Chinese by translator, Gao Shan. They deserve attention for the highly unorthodox approach Gao adopted and the substantial alterations he …

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The Open Handbook of (In)Definiteness

A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others do not? What principles govern the use of articles…

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Naomi Adam
Metaperspectives in Contemporary Literary Fiction

Metapersectives in Language and Literature offers a literary-linguistic investigation of hypothesis and the metaperspective within contemporary Booker Prize-winning novels. This highly innovative book int…

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Andreas Musolff
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories

This Element deals with the relationship between cognition, understood as the process of acquiring and developing knowledge, and diverse types of conspiracy theories, or short, 'CTs'. Section 1 lays the g…

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Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics

"Corpus linguistics continues to be a vibrant methodology applied across highly diverse fields of research in the language sciences. With the current steep rise in corpus sizes, computational power, …

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Pavel Caha, Karen de Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm

This book presents the latest research in the Nanosyntax framework, a late-insertion theory based on the idea that the elementary building blocks of syntactic trees are limited to single features. The cha…

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Sonia Colina
Fundamentals of Translation

Bridging the divide between theory and practice, this textbook provides an easy-to-read introduction to the basic concepts required for translation practice today. Filling a void in the translation textbo…

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Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, Shiloh Drake, Amy Fountain
Language and Social Issues

This engaging textbook provides a unique introduction to language and society, by showing students how to tap into the linguistic resources of their communities. Assuming no prior experience of linguistic…

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The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context

Explores the language of diversity and marginalisation in a variety of contexts and countries.

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Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters
Historical Sociolinguistics

Historical Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension. This is the first textbook to introduce this vibrant field, based on examples and cas…

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Russell H Kaschula, Monwabisi K Ralarala, Eliseu Mabasso, Zakeera Docrat
Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa

This Element introduces the study of forensic linguistics, particularly in southern Africa, but also in Africa more generally. In the past six decades, there has been clear evidence that the discipline of…

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The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Now in its second edition, this Handbook is a current overview of Second Language (L2) research, providing state-of-the-art synopses of recent developments in each sub-area of the field, and bringing toge…

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

Buch

Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang, Harald Baayen
The Discriminative Lexicon

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both …

lieferbar ab 31.1.2026.

Buch

Andreas Musolff
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories

This Element deals with the relationship between cognition, understood as the process of acquiring and developing knowledge, and diverse types of conspiracy theories, or short, 'CTs'. Section 1 lays the g…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

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