"Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children's understanding of people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intenti

Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language

"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses l

This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language by focusing on questions such as: - Where does language come from? - Why don't we all t

Contributed research papers.

In the 1960s, a study for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission revealed that Canadian associations were often paralyzed by internal

This book offers an account of what, how and why language matters in academia by providing examples from a wide range of areas in European institutions.

Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.

Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in Ukraine and Russia

This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multil