Terminology and Cognitive Linguistics have common areas of focus. Topics such as conceptual structure, category
organization, knowledge representation, and metaphor are relevant to both. This book shows how Cognitive Linguistics can be applied to specialized language within the context of ...
Academic Discourse presents a collection of specially commissioned articles on the theme of academic discourse.
Divided into sections covering the main approaches, each begins with a state of the art overview of the approach and continues with exemplificatory empirical studies. ...
This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and
methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative and quantitative methods in applied ethnography in the ...
The new edition of this thoroughly considered textbook provides a reliable, accessible and comprehensive guide
for students of photovoltaic applications and renewable energy engineering. Written by a group of award-winning authors it is brimming with information and is carefully designed ...
Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered
rhetorical vernacular that occupies the “middle range” of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure (grammar and linguistics) and on the other by ...
This book presents a detailed account of a self-study in which the author considers why
a developmental perspective matters in language learning within an intercultural orientation, and how teachers of languages might understand and attend to this notion in their ...
Der Band enthält 34 Beiträge, die beim 45. Linguistischen Kolloquium in Veszprém (Ungarn) vom 16.
bis 18. September 2010 präsentiert wurden. Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit älteren und neueren Arbeitsfeldern der Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihren innovativen Ergebnissen. Die ...
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying
its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and ...