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Brian W King
Language, Gender and Biopolitics

This Element examines language, power and intersex variations within clinician accounts in Hong Kong, examining how they communicate about intersex traits to patients and their families. Employing interac…

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Mario Leto,
The Discursive Construction of Veganism

The Discursive Construction of Veganism is a linguistic exploration of the stories we tell about veganism in popular media. Negative representations of veganism dominate, however, if veganism were represe…

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Jean-Yves Pollock
Studies on Interrogative and Relative Syntax in French and Romance

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Jean-Yves Pollock draws on the theoretical tools of generative grammar …

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Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller
Comparative Variation Analysis

"Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detaile…

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Paul Simpson,
Irony

Underpinning many common types of discourse, such as humour, sarcasm, politeness and satire, irony forms a crucial part of our everyday social interactions. But how well do we really understand its use, e…

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Multilingualism and History

"We often hear that our world "is more multilingual than ever before," but is it true? This book shatters that clichâe. It is the first volume to shine the light on the millennia-long histo…

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Jennifer Rowsell
The Comfort of Screens

Are screens the modern mirrors of the soul? The postdigital condition blurs the line between screens, humans, physical contexts, virtual worlds, analogue texts, and time as linear and lockstep. This book …

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Salvatore Attardo, Hilal Ergül, Elisa Gironzetti, Heather Jerónimo
Academic Writing Demystified

"Focused on finding joy in academic writing through demystifying the process, this book is an invaluable resource for any academic writer who is looking to get started or get unstuck, as well as doct…

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Salvatore Attardo, Hilal Ergül, Elisa Gironzetti, Heather Jerónimo
Academic Writing Demystified

"Focused on finding joy in academic writing through demystifying the process, this book is an invaluable resource for any academic writer who is looking to get started or get unstuck, as well as doct…

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Linguistic Citizenship and Vulnerability

**Examining Hannah Arendt's concepts of 'pluriversality' and 'natality' through a linguistic lens, this book explores their implications for language.**Highlighting discourses of vulnerability, chapters c…

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Andrea Bergantino
Charting Transfiction

'Transfiction' refers to the phenomenon of language mediators portrayed as characters in literature. Research investigating this phenomenon has developed through a long series of case studies. While provi…

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Mariko Oyama Thomas, Melissa M Parks
Storying Plant Communication

Embedded in vibrant and richly textured New Mexican landscapes, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healer…

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Irina Golubeva
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education

In this Element, the author argues that DEI and ICitE can complement each other in a variety of positive and productive ways. The author does so by identifying the intersections between these two distinct…

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Micronesian Englishes

Despite increasing interest both in the nativisation of 'world' Englishes and in the study of 'lesser-known' varieties, some English-speaking areas are still entirely unexplored. One such area is Micrones…

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Susan Samata
Ainu of Japan Resisting the Suppression of Languages

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ecolinguistics capable of integrating with concepts of em…

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Michael Hammond
Speech Technology

In recent years, speech recognition devices have become central to our everyday lives. Systems such as Siri, Alexa, speech-to-text, and automated telephone services, are built by people applying expertise…

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Pavel Caha, Karen de Clercq, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
Nanosyntax and the Lexicalization Algorithm

This book presents the latest research in the Nanosyntax framework, a late-insertion theory based on the idea that the elementary building blocks of syntactic trees are limited to single features. The cha…

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Zeki Hamawand
English Lexical Semantics

"Offering a cognitive approach to semantics, this highly accessible textbook place cognitive linguistics at the centre of lexical semantics while covering the field in a broader sense. It explains th…

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Meiyuan Zhao
An Extraordinary Chinese Translation of Holocaust Testimony

This Element focuses on two Holocaust testimonies translated into Chinese by translator, Gao Shan. They deserve attention for the highly unorthodox approach Gao adopted and the substantial alterations he …

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Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang, Harald Baayen
The Discriminative Lexicon

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both …

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