Winkler (linguistics, Western Kentucky U.) provides an engaging introductory text with plenty of examples and clearly organized chapters, each with suggested reading, websites, and study questions. Co
Winkler (linguistics, University of Western Kentucky) introduces linguistics to non-major undergraduates in this accessible, reader-friendly text. Concepts are explained in an informal, jargon-free wr
HOW DO LANGUAGES LIVE AND DIE?WHAT ROLE DOES TRANSLATION PLAY IN HELPING LANGUAGES TO THRIVE?ARE POLYGLOTS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, GIVEN THE LINKS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY?IS THE MAINTENANCE AND R
HOW DO LANGUAGES LIVE AND DIE?WHAT ROLE DOES TRANSLATION PLAY IN HELPING LANGUAGES TO THRIVE?ARE POLYGLOTS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, GIVEN THE LINKS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY?IS THE MAINTENANCE AND R
Recording Practice is musical practice, a technical but artistic affair. Understanding Records explains the musical language of Recording Practice in a way that any interested reader can understand. D
Recording Practice is musical practice, a technical but artistic affair. Understanding Records explains the musical language of Recording Practice in a way that any interested reader can understand. D
Religious issues and religious discourse were vastly important in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and religious language is key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictio
Elizabeth Mburu sets out to demonstrate that the sectarian Qumran document The Rule of the Community, provides linguistic clues which illuminate our understanding of how the author of the Fourth Gosp
Conversation analysis, developed in the 1960s, is a method for understanding how language works in conversation. This text for undergraduates and graduate students in sociolinguistics, discourse analy
This book demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital co
Winkler (linguistics, University of Western Kentucky) introduces linguistics to non-major undergraduates in this accessible, reader-friendly text. Concepts are explained in an informal, jargon-free wr
This book demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital co
Presents a concise survey of lexicology. This book surveys the study of words, providing an overview of basic issues in defining and understanding the word as a unit of language. It also examines the
