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What is the relationship between spatial and temporal representations in language and cognition? What is the role of culture in this relationship? I enter this discussion by …

Der regionale Erstspracherwerb des Deutschen zählt zu den nahezu unbearbeiteten Desiderata der Linguistik. Das …

Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confront, such as responding to …

This volume seeks to present 'Germanic philology' with its main linguistic, literary and cultural subdivisions as a whole, and to call into question the customary pedagogical …

Historical linguistic theory and practice contains a great number of different 'layers' which have been accepted in the course of time and have acquired a permanency of their own. …

Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a …

Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as a 'snowflake' or an …

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later …

Carl Nyrén var född i Gammalkils socken år 1726 och hade fört ett växlingsrikt liv, bl.a. som Jonas Alströmers högra hand, innan han så småningom slog sig ned som präst i sin …

Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give the English language …