Nanette Gottlieb 
Language and Society in Japan [PDF ebook] 

Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years. Featuri …

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers. Peirce is also widely known for his work on truth, his found …

Introducing the Language of the News is a comprehensive introduction to the language of news reporting. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the book provides an accessible analysis of the pro …

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation – commonly referred to as “speech reporti …

Research on the development of metaphor abilities in children can be dated back as far as 1960, with Asch and Nerlove“s pioneering study, which concluded that children were unable to understand meta …

The importance of vision and visual arts such as painting, theatre, and sculpture in Marcel Proust“s A la recherche du temps perdu has long been affirmed; another significant system of visual repres …

Numerous historical studies use the term ‚community“‘ to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the firs …

Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Deve …

This book focuses on transactions between English and Telugu through a study of translations and related works published from about the early-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century. Moving beyon …