What are the most common American expressions? If someone calls you a 'Philadelphia lawyer', should you take it as a compliment? What is the differ...

This bibliography describes in detail a valuable collection comprising archival materials related to the Black Sparrow Press from its founding in A...

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This ti...

From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This ti...

"Pullman offers his readers essential insights into how humans reason and make decisions. Both concise and far-reaching, his work teaches us how to...

"Pullman offers his readers essential insights into how humans reason and make decisions. Both concise and far-reaching, his work teaches us how to...

This study is an attempt to reorient the field of Chinese linguistics from the perspective of the new field of cultural interaction studies. The au...

David Morrow and Anthony Weston build on Weston's acclaimed A Rulebook for Arguments to offer a complete textbook for a course in critical thinking...

ASP's best-selling publication. An attractive educational tool which aims to represent all the language groups of Australia's Indigenous people.

This volume brings together seven studies, written by experts in the field, that deal with the most important features of native Canadian language ...

This new collection by Professor Diana Eades addresses the way non-traditional language Aboriginal speakers of English use and speak English. Here ...

Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions, are a class of words that express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semant...

Semantic role is the actual role a participant plays in some real or imagined situation, apart from the linguistic encoding of those situations. Se...

This thought-provoking collection of writing advice contains insights from more than 200 of the most groundbreaking literary figures our time. Whil...

The papers in this volume fall under two main themes. The first deals broadly with multilingualism and language contact in West Africa in general a...

Based on extensive fieldwork in the Afro-Bolivian communities, this book provides a detailed description of this unique and fascinating Afro-Bolivi...

A charming rogue cut from the same cloth as Robert Mitchum, American engineer Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm ...

With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into ...

With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into ...

This compendium picks up where the common dictionaries leave off. It provides a quick reference to the most amazing language in the world -- the AM...

In this book, the author provides a brief introduction to a completely new theory in semantics, Operational Semantics (OS), which concerns the mean...

C.A.E. Luschnig's An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach prepares students to read Greek in less than a year by presenting basic tra...

This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world litera...

The volume deals with the history of the concept of Arya and Aryans in East and West, with the linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence in S...

Among the cognitive processes involved in the construction of any kind of meaning, attention is fundamental in determining why, how and what we mea...

A study on Azari, the language of Azerbaijan, with additional articles by three Iranian scholars.

A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Ear...

A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Ear...

Battlefield Earth is an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake. Whe...

This book is designed to help parents help their children to become lifelong lovers of literacy (reading and writing). The book is also written to ...

Han Solo of Star Wars could learn a thing or two from Firsten Guide, the tough, wise-cracking rebel leader who's light years ahead of his time-and ...

This book focuses on the cultural influences of bilingualism, as well as global perspectives, and the advantages and disadvantages of being bilingu...

A bilingual person, in a broad definition, is one who can communicate in more than one language, be it actively (through speaking, writing, and/or ...

Biosemiotics (bios=life & semion=sign) is an interdisciplinary science that studies communication and signification in living systems. Communic...

Take the law into your own hands, and you risk losing your grip on everything else-including your life. Lee Weston-a young Paul Newman with a Colt ...

Using the Null Subject Parameter theory in cross linguistic variation, Brazilian Portuguese is studied in this book from a diachronic and a synchro...

In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to ...

This book explores the consensus that has emerged that the American education system must more aggressively embrace the concept of global education...

In his fifth popular book about language, Howard Richler moves from A to Z with one specially chosen word for every letter of the alphabet. What es...

If Lars Marlin had three wishes, two have already been granted: he has escaped from Devil's Island ... and he has come face to face with the man wh...

Forged in the hot sun and sand of the Arizona desert, Chinook Shannon is as tough as they come-as steely-eyed and tall in the saddle as Randolph Sc...

Challenging Words for Smart People is not for everyone. But if you are heels-over-head nuts about language and have a passion for snatching signifi...

This book contains the proceedings from the conference 'Changing Philologies' together with other contributions on the same topic. The conference w...

The theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to perceive, interpret and predict behaviours or actions of others based on their underlying mental states....

Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical with articles written by Danish and foreign scholars. They are mainly published in English, ...

Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The article...

Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 48

Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 49