This book provides a new analysis of the relevance of metaphorical thinking in our understanding of human bodies and actions. It describes numerous examples of metaphor in thinking about body parts and illnesses, as well as a variety of cultural variations in how we conceptualize bodies.

This book provides a new analysis of the relevance of metaphorical thinking in our understanding of human bodies and actions. It describes numerous examples of metaphor in thinking about body parts and illnesses, as well as a variety of cultural variations in how we conceptualize bodies.

This handbook offers a detailed and wide-ranging account of expressivity, the essential property that allows natural language to not just describe something in the world, but to directly express or display the speaker's attitudes or emotions. It provides critical surveys of existing research as well as new insights and innovative perspectives.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

The definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field: an outstanding international team contribute 41 new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.

This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of linguistics as currently practised. It provides an advanced introduction to some topics in the philosophy of linguistics and offers fresh approaches to new problems in the language sciences.

This book presents a paradigm shift in the world's knowledge about children's speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, facilitating comparison across languages and dialects for both researchers and communication specialists.

This handbook brings together leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the principal historical and contemporary aspects of the Portuguese language from a wide range of perspectives. The chapters explore all facets of the language, from traditional structural topics to language contact and language ideologies.