Language processing is considered as an important part of cognition, with an ever-increasing amount of studies conducted on this field. This book gathers together research on language processing and disorders presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Madrid.
Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria’s linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.
Language and Speech in Synchrony and Diachrony
This collection examines language and speech in synchrony and diachrony. It covers cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, text, and discourse, analyzing languages from various groups, including the non-literate Yenisei languages.
Language in Focus
Presenting papers from an applied linguistics conference, this book addresses the issues that emerge from the need to apply new approaches, theoretical concepts and methods to educational issues.
This volume explores the ‘living’ usage of language in building and performing the law across academic and professional contexts. These contributions offer multiperspectival approaches to legal discourse, providing an invaluable resource for academics and students.
This volume offers research on second language teaching, exploring innovative strategies for student engagement, skill development, and translanguaging. It provides valuable insights for educators and researchers on fostering inclusive, intercultural learning environments.
The Voynich Manuscript
For over 100 years, the Voynich Manuscript’s code was unbreakable. Now, it has been cracked, revealing a manifesto of the Cathar religion, a heretical sect brutally attacked during the Middle Ages. Written in Arabic to hide their faith from the Inquisition, this is it.
This book reveals how people in contemporary Chinese society perform image work to achieve their goals. Empirical studies of doctors, celebrities, and officials provide a unique portrayal of Chinese society and its way of communication.
Sign languages cannot be captured with symbols designed for sounds. This book introduces the main writing systems developed to put them on paper, focusing on SignWriting and Typannot. It examines their graphic forms, usability, and the challenge of creating a script for the body.
Inroads into Germanic Historical Phonology
This sound history of the Germanic languages draws on exhaustive dialect surveys to reconstruct the Proto-Germanic prosodic system, creating a bridge between the Scandinavian and West Germanic areas. Chapters also cover key changes like umlauts, breakings, and diphthongization.
Western Neo-Aramaic
Western Neo-Aramaic is the last surviving branch of Western Aramaic, kept alive for thousands of years in three remote Syrian villages. Now at great risk of extinction, this book explores the language with a detailed grammar, texts by native speakers, and a thorough dictionary.
This collection brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of Lexicography, a newly accepted academic discipline.
This collection brings together the pick of our recent publishing in Applied Linguistics. This area of study has a global appeal, reflected here with authors, editors and contributors from dozens of countries.
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