During the last fifteen years, existing models of linguistic politeness have generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real life speech situations, this ...more on ebook "Politeness..."

This accessible textbook in the Intertext series is unique in offering student's practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of politics. It can be used individually or ...more on ebook "The Language of Politics..."

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In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sente ...more on ebook "Modes of Discourse..."

The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics: the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse frameworks of theoretical phonology and morpho ...more on ebook "The Syllable in Optimality Theory..."

The debates surrounding Standard English, grammar and correctness are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Standard English draws together leading internationa ...more on ebook "Standard English..."

In some languages words tend to be rather short but in others they may be dauntingly long. In this book, a distinguished international group of scholars discuss the concept 'word' and its ap ...more on ebook "Word..."

Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. ...more on ebook "Writes of Passage..."

This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto Burman language family. The language contains a ...more on ebook "A Grammar of Kham..."

This comprehensive book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a foreign language to 'near native' ability. While ther ...more on ebook "Developing Professional-Level Langu..."