A Dictionary of Cameroon English Usage

Jean-Paul Kouega

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 10
• This book initiates the process of codification of a postcolonial variety of English, namely Cameroon English. It focuses on the present-day lexicon o... Lees meer

Academic Style Proofreading

Roxanne Barbara Doerr

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 54
• Academic style and its standards are often unclear to students and scholars. This book aims to unpack the concept of academic style proofreading using... Lees meer

Form, Meaning and Aspect in the German Impersonal Passive

Michelle Leese

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 52
• This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The study challenges previous analyses a... Lees meer

Chinese Learners and the Lexis Learning Rainbow

Peiling Xing

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 22
• This book focuses on vocabulary acquisition in the areas of English language learning either in a foreign or a second language environment. Starting f... Lees meer

Developing Academic Literacies

Dimitra Koutsantoni

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 4
• This book combines a social constructionist view of academic writing with a pedagogical orientation seeking to explore the dialogic relationship betwe... Lees meer

Linguistic Meaning and Non-Truth-Conditionality

Xosé Rosales Sequeiros

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 32
• This book offers a new perspective on current semantic theory by analysing key aspects of linguistic meaning and non-truth-conditional semantics. It a... Lees meer

A Unified and Integrative Theory of Language

Pablo Kirtchuk

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 41
• This book investigates language in a broad framework, taking into account anthropology, psychology and evolutionary biology. Using examples from oral ... Lees meer

Breton Orthographies and Dialects - Vol. 2

Iwan Wmffre

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 19
• This work is for comparative linguists and celticists who are keen to study Breton but may be too daunted to undertake such a venture by the wide vari... Lees meer

Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space

Beverliey Braune

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 50
• This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through a poetic enactment, an epic poem ... Lees meer

Dynamic Linguistics; Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and other Precursors of the Dynamic Approach to Language Description

Iwan Wmffre

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 28
• Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. Dynamic Lingui... Lees meer

Researching Intertextual Reading

Stephen Bax

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 25
• Intertextuality in reading - the way in which written texts refer to other texts - has recently attracted attention in the field of linguistics and re... Lees meer

Minority Language Planning and Micronationalism in Italy

Paolo Coluzzi

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 17
• Issues of language planning and minority nationalism or «micronationalism» are becoming increasingly important in a globalized world. Yet minority lan... Lees meer

Language: An Ecological View

Mark Garner

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 1
• Ecological thinking has in recent years come a long way from its origins in biology, to become a new paradigm within many disciplines. Its approach is... Lees meer

Bengali-English in East London

Sebastian Rasinger

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 11
• Following two major waves of immigration after World War II, the Bangladeshi community in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets is now one of the l... Lees meer

Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 14
• This is a collection of papers that resulted from the Third International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Shanghai... Lees meer

Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language

Prafulla Basumatary

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 42
• The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, parti... Lees meer

One Word, Two Genders

Chiara Semplicini

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 38
• This first academic study of double gender nouns (DGNs) in the Dutch language investigates why certain nouns have more than one gender. DGNs are shown... Lees meer

Interdisciplinarity and Languages

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 30
• This volume offers a state-of-the-art view of research into interdisciplinarity, language and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by provid... Lees meer

Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese

Razaul Faquire

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 29
• In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It ... Lees meer

Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek

Stavroula Varella

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 7
• Cypriot is unique among the Modern Greek dialects in possessing such a variegated vocabulary - testimony, indeed, to the chequered history of the isla... Lees meer

Interactions in New Academic Discourses

Hang (Joanna) Zou

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 53
• This book explores how interactions are achieved in new academic discourses. Applying corpus-based analysis to academic blogs, online book reviews, ar... Lees meer

Le langage préfabriqué

Fanny Forsberg

• Paperback | Frans | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 20
• Le langage préfabriqué suscite l'intérêt aussi bien de la linguistique générale que de la linguistique acquisitionnelle. La récurrence, la répétition ... Lees meer

The Advanced Learner Variety

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 12
• This volume originates from a workshop entitled 'Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning' organized by the editors at Aston University (Birmingha... Lees meer

Perceiving Identity through Accent

Bettina Beinhoff

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics | nr. 35
• Given the increasing use of English worldwide, attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English is a growing research area. This author argues ... Lees meer