"Since its foundation in the 1980's, Construction Grammar has been crossing the traditionally imposed borders. From superimposed levels of analysis to the lexicon-grammar continuum, the constructionist approach to language ...
"The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal ...
"Intensification in English and Spanish Communication provides a broad account of how speakers and writers escalate their communication with the purpose of persuading their hearers and interlocutors. The author provides ...
"The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of different theoretical perspectives on Terminology, from Wüster to other initiatives that have emerged since the beginning of the 1990s. The volume also covers important ...
"Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) ...
"This book focuses on the structure of the narrative and the possibilities it offers for therapy as well as the Post-Modern sources of spiritual conflict and how to benefit from the possibilities of the narrative while ...
"This book offers new dating of the poems of the Old Norse Poetic Edda, perhaps our best sources about the mythology and legends of the Viking Age. This study compares the anonymous Eddic poems to dated skaldic poems with ...
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena ...
"In this book, Yutaka Fujieda illustrates how multilingual learners extend substantial efforts to tackle academic discourses and navigate their academic identities. This book provides profound insights into the processes ...
"This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events ...
"This book covers security issues that must be considered for E-governance applications, by helping and protecting them from possible cybersecurity attacks to alleviate the fraud potential as hackers use emerging technologies ...
Acquisition of the native language proceeds in a stage-wise manner for both typically developing (TD) children and children with developmental language disorder (DLD). As shown in TD children learning Dutch and German, the ...
Levis (John M.),; Derwing Tracey M.,; Munro Murray J.,(2022)
"Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing's 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending ...
"Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon ...
Peña Cervel M. Sandra,; Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Francisco José(2022)
"This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying ...
"While China has been rising as an innovative platform society and AI powerhouse, this book addresses the broader question of a shifting world order and trends that are shaped by China's influence but extend beyond its borders"--
"The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. This book sheds light on the many hacking risks, encouraging ...