Language & Linguistics

Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation...

Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones...

The Nihongi is the standard native history of Ancient Japan. This volume, now of classic status makes accessible to European scholars the extensive store of material for the study of mythology, folk-lore, early civilization and manners and customs which it contains...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book focuses on cross-cultural advertising communication and aesthetic_x005F_x000D_ and cultural issues when translating brand names and brand slogans from_x005F_x000D_ English to Chinese and vice versa. Based on pragmatic translating theories_x005F_x000D_ and case studies of classic translatio..

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A one-volume, thematically arranged collection of the major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s highly respected responses to them...

A one-volume, thematically arranged collection of the major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s highly respected responses to them...

Language change is back on the agenda in Rudi Keller's exciting book. He demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained...

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure...

Original Writing provides students with the practical skills they need to write confidently and effectively for different purposes and audiences...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...