Andreas T. Zanker 
Metaphor in Homer [PDF ebook] 
Time, Speech, and Thought

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 …

Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language, Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice. Individ …

Wittgenstein’s Intentions, first published in 1993, presents a series of essays dedicated to the great Wittgenstein exegete John Hunter. The problematic topics discussed are identified not only by Wi …

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This book gives the first ever complete description of all this language”s linguistic domain. Evenki is remarkable both …

Linguistics is important. An understanding of linguistic principles is as essential to the layperson as it is to the language scholar. Using concrete examples from politics, law, and education, this …

First Published in 1998. Since the original appearance of this thesis there have been enormous changes in phonology. The phrase ”constraint-based phonology” has almost universal coverage now, it wo …

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about …