Julia Schluter & Ole Schutzler 
Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics [PDF ebook] 
Comparative Approaches

What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare”s language in the plays? Shakespeare”s Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language …

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. 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 …

A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking …

For centuries, the art of translation has been misconstrued as a solitary affair. Yet, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, groups of translators comprised of specialists of different languages formed …

The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing together two aspects of syntactic investigation. Fir …

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. The resources and techniques used to investigate g …

Are lone mothers ”going it alone” in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with …

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 …

Language teachers” competencies in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) are a crucial factor affecting their own implementation of CALL. However, there is still a concern that many language te …