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Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment

Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment


Robert Brandom



Review Making It Explicit has already developed a justified reputation as a major contribution to the philosophy of langu...
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)




Review This is a provocative, erudite and enjoyable book, written to stimulate debate Raphael Salkie, THES About th...
An Ethnographic-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Assessment (Multilingual Matters 8)

An Ethnographic-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Assessment (Multilingual Matters 8)


Charlene Rivera



An Ethnographic-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Assessment (Multilingual Matters 8)...
The Pragmatics of Translation (Topics in Translation, 12)

The Pragmatics of Translation (Topics in Translation, 12)


Leo Hickey



About the Author Leo Hickey is a Research Professor at the University of Salford. His research centres on studies of styl...
Conversation Analysis: Principles, Practices and Applications

Conversation Analysis: Principles, Practices and Applications


Ian Hutchby, Robin Wooffitt



Review "Conversation analysis is increasingly understood as providing a major contribution to theories and methods across...
Amharic textbook

Amharic textbook


Wolf Leslau



Amharic textbook...
Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications

Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications


A. P. Cowie



Review Phraseology is a remarkable book. It is a valuable synthesis of historical and modern perspectives of a very rich...
Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)


Michael Devitt



Review "This technical and groundbreaking work about the nature of linguistic meaning and its relationship to empirical p...
The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World


Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca



The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World...
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Volume II: 1785-1858

A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Volume II: 1785-1858


Julie Coleman



Review "A fascinating glimpse into a world in which a secret language was at once menacing and thrilling."--Times Literar...
Arctic Languages: An Awakening

Arctic Languages: An Awakening


Dirmid R. F. Collis



Arctic Languages: An Awakening...
Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda

Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda


Hermann Grassmann



Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda...
Gunin Kwini (Languages of the World Materials)

Gunin Kwini (Languages of the World Materials)


William Mcgregor



Gunin Kwini (Languages of the World Materials)...
Lexical Template Morphology: Change of State and the Verbal Prefixes in German (Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)

Lexical Template Morphology: Change of State and the Verbal Prefixes in German (Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)


B. Roger Maylor



Language Notes Text: English, German --This text refers to the edition. ...
Meaning and truth: investigations in philosophical semantics

Meaning and truth: investigations in philosophical semantics


David Shier, Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke



Meaning and truth: investigations in philosophical semantics...
A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation

A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation


Noah Lukeman



Review “Pithy, elegant.” (Paul Cody, Ithaca College ) “Flawless.” (John Smolens, Northern Mic...
Bilingualism and the individual

Bilingualism and the individual


Anne Holmen



Language Notes Text: English, Danish ...
Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within

Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within




From Finally, someone has come along to tell would-be writers the two words they desperately need to hear: get real! Wom...
Foreign Accent: The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Second Language Phonology (Second Language Acquisition Research Theoretical and Methodological Issues Series)

Foreign Accent: The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Second Language Phonology (Second Language Acquisition Research Theoretical and Methodological Issues Series)


Roy C. Major



Review A major strength of Major's work is his delineation of the parameters of the OPM....Major is to be congratulated on ...
Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory

Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory


John R. Taylor



Review "Linguistic Categorization is a stimulating, eminently readable demonstration of the use of prototypical forms of ...
Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks


Carol S. Lipson, Roberta A. Binkley



From the Back Cover Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhet...
The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 1

The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, V. 1


Allan Karker, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Hanster Naumann, Kurt Braunmüller, Oskar Bandle, Ulf Teleman



Review "Oskar Bandle and his team have provided the student of Northern European languages with an invaluable tool."Graem...
Writing Genres

Writing Genres


Amy J. Devitt



Review “Writing Genres presents an excellent, comprehensive discussion of contemporary genre theory as it has develo...
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference

The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference


Lawrence Venuti



Amazon.com Review Over the past two decades, Lawrence Venuti has proven to be an elegant and extraordinarily nuanced tra...
Language Contact: An Introduction

Language Contact: An Introduction


Sarah G. Thomason



Review A eulogy to the richness of expression in language ! This is a very exciting book for readers who take delight in ...
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language)




Review This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech. Folia Linguis...
Defining Creole

Defining Creole


John H. Mcwhorter



Review "This book is a welcome addition to the linguistic literature on creole languages and is sure to provide the fodde...
Neuromimetic Semantics: Coordination, Quantification, and Collective Predicates

Neuromimetic Semantics: Coordination, Quantification, and Collective Predicates


Harry Howard



Book Description The analysis of well-known facts of natural-language semantics from a neurocomputational perspective. ...
Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)

Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)


Alastair Butler, Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker



Questions in Dynamic Semantics (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface)...
Semantics, Volume 2

Semantics, Volume 2


John Lyons



Review 'Anyone who writes an up-to-date textbook of semantics has to be au fait with an extremely wide range of contempor...
The language of battered women: a rhetorical analysis of personal theologies

The language of battered women: a rhetorical analysis of personal theologies


Carol Lea Winkelmann



From the Back Cover This study of battered women living in a shelter offers a rhetorical analysis of survivors' personal ...
Time in Language (Germanic Linguistics)

Time in Language (Germanic Linguistics)


Wolfgang Klein



About the Author Wolfgang Klein is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. ...
The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script

The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script


Maurice Pope



Review A concise, well-organized study that deserves high marks. -- Library Journal The finest work of its kind . . . a...
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 4: 1790-1900

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 4: 1790-1900


Kenneth Haynes, Peter France



Review "The editors of the volume have assembled a very impressive range of essays that will provide an invaluable resour...
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Bradford Books - Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)

How Children Learn the Meanings of Words (Bradford Books - Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change)


Paul Bloom



Review "...this book is likely to have a profound impact on the field of child language." — Anne Bezuidenhout, Me...
Language and Species

Language and Species


Derek Bickerton



About the Author Derek Bickerton is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Hawaii and is the author of se...
Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)


John A. Lucy



Book Description A review of anthropologists Edward Sapir's and Benjamin L. Whorf's linguistic relativity thesis leads to...
Second Language Conversations (Advances in Applied Linguistics)

Second Language Conversations (Advances in Applied Linguistics)


Johannes Wagner, Rod Gardner



Review "The collection advances our knowledge of naturally-occurring L2 conversations considerably and is highly recommen...
Bilingual couples talk: the discursive construction of hybridity

Bilingual couples talk: the discursive construction of hybridity


Ingrid Piller



Language Notes Text: English, German ...
Semantics (Introducing Linguistics)

Semantics (Introducing Linguistics)


John I. Saeed



Review "This new edition of Saeed's textbook is clearly written and very comprehensive, with updated discussions of impor...
Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader

Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader


George Wolf, Roy Harris



Review Hayley Davis, Goldsmiths College, LondonThere is certainly a need for a publication of books on integrational ling...
Street Talk-1: How to Speak and Understand American Slang (v. 1)

Street Talk-1: How to Speak and Understand American Slang (v. 1)


David Burke



Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Preface Recently, I went to the movies with a French friend...
Language and Reality: Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

Language and Reality: Introduction to the Philosophy of Language


Kim Sterelny, Michael Devitt



Language and Reality: Introduction to the Philosophy of Language...
McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms

McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms


Richard Spears



About the Author Richard A. Spears, Ph.D. is a former reference editor and linguistics Professor at Northwestern Universi...
Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Disciplinarity

Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Disciplinarity


Ruth Wodak, Gilbert Weiss



About the Author Gilbert Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. Austria. He is ...
18.1. History of the Language Science; Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften; Histoire Des Sciences Du Langage (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften; Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; HSK)

18.1. History of the Language Science; Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften; Histoire Des Sciences Du Langage (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften; Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; HSK)


E. F. K. Koerner, Hans J. Niederehe, Kees Versteegh, Sylvain Auroux



18.1. History of the Language Science; Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften; Histoire Des Sciences Du Langage (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaften; Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; HSK)...
The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)


Artemis Alexiadou, Martin Everaert, Elena Anagnostopoulou



Review "This is a very valuable volume on the topic of unaccusativity. The editors have introduced expertly the volume, t...
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary


Ambrose Bierce



Review "Bierce was America's first realist writer, but, unlike realism's later practitioners, he knew something about rea...