An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as 'practice' boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitate understanding of both the 'hows' and the 'whys' of sentence structure. Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structures in a progressive manner. Takes the myster...

Long awaited new edition of this hands-on guide to writing like a journalist. Full of examples, exercises and practical advice, it now covers online presentation and social media too.

The authors have been developing the demand control schema (DC-S) and their practice-profession approach to community interpreting since 1995. With its early roots pertaining to occupational health in the interpreting field, DC-S has evolved into a holistic work analysis framework which guides interpreters in their development of ethical and effective decision-making skills. Adapted from Robert Karasek’s demand control theory, this textbook is the culmination of nearly two decades of work, ...

This handbook provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Typological research extends across all branc...

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now.

This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguisti...

De Nederlandse taal is rijk aan prachtige woorden. Sommige zijn echter in de loop der jaren in de vergetelheid geraakt en worden niet of nog maar sporadisch gebruikt. Andere woorden moeten vrezen voor hun toekomst. Dit boek heeft ze alle liefderijk opgenomen in een 'reservaat'. Daar worden ze besproken en zo nodig door gebruik van een of meer citaten in hun oorspronkelijke context geplaatst. Die confrontatie met hun vroegere bestaan is leerzaam omdat daar de hoop voor de toekomst in verborgen...

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides; composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms; and, English-Greek glossaries.

In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural communication, including: "Science and Linguistics," by Benjamin Lee Whorf "The Power of Hidden Differences," by Edward T.

Hall "Culture: A Perceptual Approach," by Marshall R. Singer "Comm...

Dit overzicht van meer dan tweeduizend frequent gebruikte woorden in Oudgriekse teksten is bedoeld voor studenten hoger onderwijs en docenten middelbaar onderwijs, alsook voor iedereen die oude kennis wil opfrissen.

De verwerving van een beredeneerde basiswoordenschat staat garant voor een duurzamere leeservaring en dringt de afhankelijkheid van het woordenboek bij het lezen van Oudgriekse teksten aanzienlijk terug.

De lijst is samengesteld op basis van een breed corpus van klassieke auteurs,...