Douglas Biber & Jesse Egbert 
Doing Linguistics with a Corpus [EPUB ebook] 
Methodological Considerations for the Everyday User

The investigation of sentential complementation focuses on properties of sentences that are embedded in other sentences. This book brings together a variety of studies on this topic in the framework …

First published in 1986. The important implications of speech variability for the future of speech related technology, in combination with the multifaceted debate about invariance among speech scient …

For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of ‘decontextualising’ our own verbal behaviour. A whole interl …

This book tries to answer the question posed by Minsky at the beginning of The Society of Mind: ’to explain the mind, we have to show how minds are built from mindless stuff, from parts that are much …

One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized …

This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned theorist or research …

This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and c …

First Published in 1999. This book investigates the meaning of conditional protasis markers like Spanish si ”if” and English if from a pragmatic perspective. A standard assumption in linguistics is …

Signed language interpreting continues to evolve as a field of research. Stages of professionalization, opportunities for education and the availability of research vary tremendously among different …

Roderick Jones adopts a very practical approach to both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, providing detailed illustrations of note-taking, reformulation, the ”salami” technique, simplifica …