Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like befor...

Actes du Colloque international de la Società di Linguistica Italiana, qui s'est tenu à Copenhague du 5 au 7 février 1998 sur la linguistique textu...

This book provides new research on linguistics. Chapter One shows the shortcomings and drawbacks of classical single-factor or unilateral theories ...

While there are many books on language and literacy education, there is an urgent need to provide a book which makes an essential link between theo...

This book began as one of the publication outlets for two flagship conferences in 2019: 12th Conaplin (Conference on Applied Linguistics) and 3rd I...

Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. One would expect that as the world enters the 21st century of the Third Millennium, we wouldn...

Literacy, the ability to read and write proficiently, is essential in almost every facet of modern life. Alarmingly, a staggering number of U.S. ch...

Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard

LXX Song of Songs and Descriptive Translation Studies. Dries De Crom intends to stimulate the cross-fertilization of Septuagint Studies and Transla...

The language described in this monograph is spoken by a small hilltribe in Northern Indochina. Its existence has attracted considerable attention b...

Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's...

There is an urgent need to examine how the emergence of globalisation is influencing the ways the English language is perceived, learned, and taugh...

Native and foreign language competences constitute a widespread object of study among different scholars both in more theoretically oriented framew...

Reporting on a linguistic ethnographic study, Işıl Erduyan explores multilingual identity construction of high school students with Turkish descen...

The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern – as well as of patristic and...

This books presents research and issues related to reading and writing acquisition and problems in its acquisition, contributing as a basis for stu...

In this collection of scholarly essays, Michael Moser examines the history of the Ukrainian language and takes issue with the verdict of the infamo...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of sign language. The opening paper concentrates on content structure in an example...

During the last 30 years, the Russian thinker M M Bakhtin has achieved great international recognition for his work with -- among other subjects --...

How number words came about? This book offers a trenchant answer to the question, explaining number conception and application slot by slot through...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all ...