Modal verbs and modality in literary and non-literary texts This collection presents a range of research on modality in the English language. It includes comprehensive analyses of English modal verbs in different types of genres, including Early Modern English plays … Weiterlesen
Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D: Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through … Weiterlesen
Researching Language and Social Media A Student Guide Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide introduces the linguistic frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contexts. This highly accessible guidebook outlines the practical steps and ethical … Weiterlesen
Mutual linguistic borrowing between English and Arabic This book focuses on the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, and offers historical background regarding the contact between these two languages. It sheds light on why and how both languages have come … Weiterlesen
Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: the ‚head’Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‚Head‘ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as … Weiterlesen