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Conversational Routine
Direct and Indirect Speech
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics …
Guardians of Language
This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval …
A Language Policy for the European Community
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of …
A Bibliography on Writing and Written Language
The bibliography offers information on research about writing and written language over the past 50 years. No comprehensive bibliography on this subject has been published since …
Writing in Focus
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics …
Japanese Propriety, Past and Present
This book offers a fresh view on Japanese society focussing on the role of comportment for group cohesiveness. It explores the stereotype that Japan is the world’s most polite …
Writing and Society
How does writing relate to speech? What impact does it have on social organisation and development? How do unwritten languages differ from those that have a written form and …
Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies
This book argues that a new perspective on immigration is needed: as Western societies age, and their populations stagnate or decline, and immigrants are increasingly required, the …
Einführung in Die Modallogik
Writing Systems
During its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language, has found a variety of solutions which still …
Sociolinguistics
Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages …