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Composed of two parts, this title contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D 2.19. It aims to survey preceding printed versions of the MS, such as Stevenson & Waring (1856-65) and W W Skeat (1871-87), and also to publish the complete edition of the MS with the whole Latin text interlineally glossed in Old English.

Describes methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents research based on the "Norwegian Newspaper Corpus". This book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and more.

Presents developments in the linguistics of humour. This volume depicts theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope.

How interpersonal relations are established and negotiated in online message boards by giving an overview of panoply of interpersonal relations, including positively and negatively marked behavior. This book provides refinement of theoretical positions of fields of research, students and professionals are (re-)acquainted with subject at hand.

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little - if any - discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the developments in the study of this phenomenon.

Words are never used in isolation but in combination and not with any word but only with certain specific words. This dictionary reconstructs the frame to which 3,000 Italian entries belong and aims to help non-Italian speakers with an advanced linguistic competence to find the appropriate word combinations for communicating in Italian.

Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. This volume presents an overview of the language, from the sound system to parts of speech.

Offers an account of multilingualism, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. This book focuses on the knowledge and use of multiple languages. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level.

Represents the advances in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice. In this book, the contributors provide an analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas among others.

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. This volume showcases the research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers in the field.

This collection seeks to represent the state of the art in cognitive stylistics - a field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.