The Language of Ramesses: Late Egyptian Grammar Francois Neveu’s seminal work, right here accessible in English for the primary time, allows the reader to discover the Ramesside age via an understanding of Late Egyptian. This part corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which grew to become a written language …
A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian is a reference work unique in the history of English-Persian lexicography. It offers a considerably extended guide to modern everyday Persian vocabulary, arranged by theme. With approximately 25,000 Persian headwords in over seventy themed sections, it covers every conceivable vocabulary need: from …
Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others …
Discourses of Helping Professions (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional discourse – by now well established fields in linguistic research …
Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs (Studies in Language Companion Series) The verb has often been considered the center of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and …