Liesbeth Degand & Sandrine Zufferey 
Connectives and Discourse Relations [PDF ebook] 

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse — the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when …

Originally published in 1980, this title looks at the mental processes involved in producing and understanding spoken language. Although there had been several edited volumes on speech in the previou …

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in …

In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation …

Maxime mei paenitet, vendidi uxorem tua in agora e Bay. I’m really sorry, I sold your wife on e Bay. (Shouted into a mobile phone) Sum in longus quadrigarus! I’m on the train! Nuntiis meis non respon …

If you”ve ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of th …

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to the …

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, …

Gendered and sexual identities are unstable constructions which reveal a great deal about the ideologies and power relatinships affecting individuals and societies. The interaction between gender/sex …

The Sociolinguistics of Digital Englishes introduces core areas of sociolinguistics and explores how each one has been transformed by the current era of digital communication and the Internet. Addres …