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Australian English is best known for its colourful slang. This collection provides a much richer account by bringing together leading scholars of this English variety. They provide a comprehensive overview of Australian English's distinctive features and outline cutting edge rese...arch into variation and change of English in Australia.
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Effective Task Instruction in the First Year of School brings forward a much needed wealth of knowledge into how to teach children in the first year of schooling and beyond, in a way that is accessible for practicing teachers, student teachers as well as education researchers.
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Uniting work from philosophical, cognitive and linguistic perspectives, Dr Truswell develops a model of the structure of events as perceptual and cognitive units. He predicts the acceptability of particular formulations, considers the individuation of events in the light of the m...odel, and provides a novel account of patterns of question formation.
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This book examines the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, taking full account of diachronic and usage-based research. It encompasses the full range of English verb classes, has a strong typological dimension, and presents a model of event structure ...that breaks new ground in predicting and explaining linguistic facts.
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This text opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as it was developed in classical times. It surveys and analyzes material from Aristotle and Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man.
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An in-depth analysis of possessive constructions in English in terms of Cognitive Grammar , as developed by Ronald Langacker and others. The book also provides a wide-ranging critique of alternative analyses, especially those derived from the Chomskyan school.
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This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to ...in the speaker's utterance.
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This volume sets out its principles comprehensively and lucidly, providing an outline of key terms and a wide range of illustrative examples. It explores rhetoric at work in different genres, and is a guide to the application of rhetoric to French texts from the 16th century to t...he present.
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This is a research monograph which investigates the relationship between meaning and grammatical form, focusing on the Scottish Gaelic language.
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Paul Elbourne explores the complex nature of meaning in crystal clear language. He draws on approaches developed in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology - assuming a knowledge of none of them - in a manner that will appeal to everyone interested in one of this essential elemen...t of human psychology and culture.
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