Gotti Maurizio Gotti & Sala Michele Sala 
Insights Into Medical Communication [PDF ebook] 

This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constr …

This handbook is written for anyone who is feeling stuck with their creativity or creative practice. Whether or not readers have had a creative practice before (writing/ painting/ making/ crafting) t …

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics …

The new edition of Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition defines the key terminology within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this comple …

This new volume explores the limits and possibilities of economic change in transforming the lives of women in rural Greece at a time of great economic and political change. It is based on ethnograph …

The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvemen …

This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics– telicity and durativity– to the grammatical system of natural language. Th …

This book focuses on the effects of L1 cognitive resources on L2 reading e.g. the effects of L1 reading ability, the ability in L1 mental-structure building, L1 cognitive use in L2 reading, and other …

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: < …

An innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at Durham University and the Istitut f A r deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany. It focuses on the study of public debates on economic …