A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study.
Stevenson and Carl investigate the dynamics of language and social change in contemporary central Europe.
A theory of diachronic change based on studies of language acquisition.
This volume explores the impact of French on Russian language attitudes, especially among the literary community. It examines the... Læs mere
This is the first of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin.
With examples drawn from over 200 world languages, this ground-breaking volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of evaluative morphology.
Despite tense relations between the USSR and the West, Soviet readers were voracious consumers... Læs mere
This book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world from a sociolinguistic perspective.
A single-volume reference companion to the multi-disciplinary field of business discourse.
This volume celebrates the completion of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
A monograph about structural entities originating in the lexicon - that is, about word structure - as well as about the structural characteristics of the lexicon as a module of formal grammar.
Studies representations of white illness in Victorian travel narratives about Africa and the Caribbean.