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Pragmatics is a core discipline within linguistics, but is without an introduction organised by key terms -- until now. Key Terms In Pragmatics succeeds in tackling this problem by giving students clear, explanatory definitions of over 300 key terms in the field. There are short intellectual biographies of key thinkers, and a list of key works for further reading.
This book is essential reading for students on introductory and intermediate courses on linguistics and language and communication, especially those studying pragmatics and logic and meaning. It is also...

Die 3. Auflage des Grundlagenwerks zur Dialektologie des Deutschen ist erneut in weiten Teilen uberarbeitet, erganzt und aktualisiert worden. Unter Einbeziehung der neuesten Forschungsliteratur entsteht ein umfassendes Bild der heutigen Sicht auf die Dialektologie des Deutschen, wobei auch die historische Dimension die gebuhrende Aufmerksamkeit erfahrt.
Das Werk gliedert sich in vier Groabschnitte: Zur Gegenstandsbestimmung der Dialektologie, Dialektologische Arbeitsverfahren, Wege und Schwerpunkte der deutschen Dialektologie sowie Die deutschen Dialektgebiete im Uberblick. Dabei...

This Reader is a comprehensive introductory text for the study of multimodality and offers a wide range of approaches and data sets illuminating the value of multimodal investigations for education, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and communication. With an extensive list of further readings, suggested assignments, and an alphabetic glossary, the book is a useful companion to students and researchers alike.

For the first time, this volume shows the benefits of a praxeological approach to linguistics. It conceives of language, text, behavior, and communication as "practices." A focus is placed on processuality, materiality, embodiment, and social routines. Instead of regarding language as an autonomous system, the contributions look at how actors use language in the context of embodied practices as shaped by social and cultural history.

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover:

I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter,
II. Perspectives from different...