Poppi Franca Poppi 
Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca [PDF ebook] 
How written communication is changing under the influence of electronic media and new contexts of use

Today there is a reawakening interest in how language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities and a runni …

Over the past few decades, research on metaphor has focused almost exclusively on its verbal and cognitive dimensions. In Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, Charles Forceville argues that metaphor ca …

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments – familial, local community, and broader cultural voices. Using past structures and paradigms of …

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 is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an …

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify ru …

This series, Children’s Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuas …

This book deals with the narrative discourse–specifically lifestories–of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer”s disease (AD). It attempts to understand the discourse of these patients in contextua …

This volume represents major research issues in language production today, presenting readers with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field. Contributors have focused on models of vi …

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce’s work based on a Kantian understanding of his teleological account of thought and inquiry. Departing from readings that contrast P …