This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cogni

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor acro

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context wher

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