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'You Know'
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 102.00The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you know is even used when the addressee is assumed... more...
25 Language Phrasebook
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 9.99Advanced 25 Language Phrasebook: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Thai. more...
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features... more...
Advances in Functional Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users, and considers... more...
Analyzing Grammar
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 42.00Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed to equip students with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules are shown, and a range of problem sets and exercises are provided. more...
Analyzing Linguistic Data
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 38.00A straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language data, designed for students with a non-mathematical background. more...
Andersschreiben
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 64.49Hauptbeschreibung Der vorliegende Band versammelt 22 Beiträge, die Schriftlichkeit in einer neuen Perspektive in den Blick nehmen: Im Fokus stehen Formen des Andersschreibens, d.h. Schreibweisen, die als "anders" auffallen oder sich als "anders" präsentieren. Andersschreiben findet sich in weiten Teilen der öffentlichen Schriftlichkeit, so etwa... more...
Anomalie sintatiche e construtti marcati: l'anacoluto in Eschilo
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 62.55Hauptbeschreibung Il volume è introdotto da un ampio capitolo che ripercorre la storia del concetto di 'anacoluto' nelle teorie linguistiche e retoriche, dai sofisti di V secolo a. C. fino ai grammatici latini di età imperiale. Superando l'oscurità di talune definizioni, viene messo in luce come, oltre il fervore catalogico e descrittivo delle prime... more...
Appliable Linguistics
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics takes everyday real-life language-related problems – both theoretical and practical – in diverse social, professional and academic contexts as its starting point. It then uses and contributes to a theoretical model of language... more...
Applied Linguistics & Communities of Practice
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 130.00The papers in this volume demonstrate the strides applied linguists have taken, in 'pure' or 'impure' form, since the classic volume of Corder's Introducing Applied Linguistics speculated about the discipline's possible frontiers. With a judicious combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented studies, the volume... more...









