Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives as well as an up-to-date overview of the respective fields.

Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics.

The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives.

Dieses Handbuch liefert eine zusammenfassende Darstellung, die diese lange Reflexionstradition in Bezug zu theoretischen Ansätzen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts setzt und an konkreten Fallstudien anschaulich macht.

This book presents, by means of a number of articles, a survey and a set of projects in computational lexical semantics.

Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and also deeply affected English.

This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction.

This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts—in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms of higher education, in accessibility service offices, on the street, and at home.

In Arguing over Texts, Martin Camper presents a rhetorical method for understanding the types of disagreement people have over the meaning of texts and the lines of argument they use to resolve those disagreements.