Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about...Lasīt vairāk
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from th...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from th...Lasīt vairāk
Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word know and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including contextua...Lasīt vairāk
Since the heyday of ordinary language philosophy, Anglophone epistemologists have devoted a great deal of attention to the English word know and to English sentences used to attribute knowledge. Even today, many epistemologists, including contextua...Lasīt vairāk
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesnt. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common type...Lasīt vairāk
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesnt. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common type...Lasīt vairāk
This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages - Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance - demons...Lasīt vairāk
Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wuster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, incl...Lasīt vairāk
In Speaking Christian, acclaimed Bible scholar Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, argues that the very language Christians use has become dangerously distilled, distorted, and disconnected from the beliefs which once under...Lasīt vairāk
