In this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectuals, reviewe...

In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness...

This is a selection of essays in stylistics by John M Dienhart (1939-2004) which are now collected for the first time. The essays investigate a var...

Meaning Is Everywhere sketches a theory of meaning from the ground up—with potentially profound consequences. In a sweeping narrative that arcs fro...

This book focuses on the analysis of language (possibly in conjunction with other semiotic systems) in course of our lives as citizens of establish...

This book is devoted to comparisons of the linguistic situation established by English and Scots in Lowland Scotland, with situations observed in t...

This volume contains seven papers (by V Traverso, L Mondada, P Touati, A B Hansen and M-B Mosegaard Hansen, A. Coveney, C. Bozier, and E. Westin) w...

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and brought into accordance with the rules and the practice of today's language. Numerous examples fro...

The northern territories of the former Soviet Union remain an under-researched and thus under-represented region in European studies, even though a...