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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated! The second was to give a general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken. ...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society—a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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