Teun A. van Dijk 
Discourse and Context [PDF ebook] 
A Sociocognitive Approach

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner”s success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivat …

Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other part …

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication. Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there has been little r …

Providing crucial scholarship on Derrida”s first series of lectures from the Nationality and Philosophical Nationalism cycle, Herman Rapaport brings all 13 parts of the Fantom of the Other series (1 …

Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India, Nishaant Choksi examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy to provide one of …

First published in 1993. The importance of language in economics has been neglected and dominated by techniques from other disciplines. This looks at the wider methological implications of language w …

This book explores the ways in which migrants’ experience in today’s multilingual and multicultural society informs language use and processing, behavioural patterns, and perceptions of self-identity …

Here”s your ticket to the greatest mystery-writing workshop ever! In this extraordinary compilation, more than three dozen members of the Mystery Writers of America share insights and advice that ca …

This book focuses on the ways in which metaphor contributes to the development of Internet arguments, known as ”drama”, particularly on You Tube. Although a growing body of research into You Tube i …

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? 'How to Understand Languag …