Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that crea...(展开全部)

琼·拜比，美国新墨西哥大学语言学系荣休杰出教授，曾任美国语言学会会长(2004)。主要从事音系学、形态学、语言共性和语言演变研究。主要著作有《形态学：意义与形式的关系研究》、《语法演化：世界语言的时体态》、《音系学与语言使用》、《使用频度与语言组织》、《语言、使用与认知》、《语言演变》等。 李瑞林，广东外语外贸大学教授，中国比较文学与跨文化研究会副会长，中国英汉语比较研究会语言服务行业专业委员会副会长，《中国翻译》《Babel》《英语世界》编委，荣获全国第六届“文津图书奖”推荐图书奖、中国第一届英语优秀教学论文二等奖等。

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that crea...(展开全部)

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate sy...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages. But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some ...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom suggests English is going to the dogs, that bad grammar, slang, and illogical constructions signal a decline in standards of usage - to say nothing of the corruption wrought by email and text messages. But English is a complicated, marvelous language. Far from being a language in decline, English is the product of surprisingly varied linguistic forces, some ...(展开全部)

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability are important aspects of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct c...(展开全部)

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability are important aspects of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct c...(展开全部)

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct d...(展开全部)

Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986, discussing the more serious criticisms of the theory, and envisaging possible revisions or extensions. The book sets out ...(展开全部)