How do people represent their knowledge about the world and use that knowledge for communication? This question is the central theme of this book....
Research on discourse (or text) processing has only recently come into its own. It builds on the work of text analysis which has a long and...
Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Second Edition (COPE) is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the...
This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of socio-linguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as...
Linguistics is a discipline with ever expanding boundaries and interests. Despite the narrow definition of linguistics which dominates academia...
Language, Cognitive Deficits, and Retardation presents the fundamental issue of the relationship between semantics and syntax. It discusses the...
The third edition of this established textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised. It maintains its broad coverage of topics from phonetics to...
What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes...
Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical...