Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice provides the student/reader with the basic theoretical knowledge and the empirical tools of some of the most relevant approaches to the analysis of discourse.

This Element proposes the concept of Philippine Englishes-in-motion as an approach to understanding Philippine Englishes. It situates this proposition within the concerns of mobility, labor migration, multilingualism, and transnationalism. Drawing on analyses of conversations by Filipino migrants in Japan, it illuminates linguistic selection.

This Element proposes the concept of Philippine Englishes-in-motion as an approach to understanding Philippine Englishes. It situates this proposition within the concerns of mobility, labor migration, multilingualism, and transnationalism. Drawing on analyses of conversations by Filipino migrants in Japan, it illuminates linguistic selection.

Discusses how the insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer alter our understanding of literary theory and interpretation. The author surveys modern hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Ricoeur, situating Gadamer's specifically philosophical hermeneutics in the context of an ongoing dialogue.

This is a volume of unpublished writings by the late David Lewis. It contains two long manuscripts and thirty-one shorter essays covering topics such as causation, freedom of the will, probability, counterparts, reference, logic, value, and divine evil. It also contains an intellectual biography of the young David Lewis by the editors.

This book (1986) introduces the philosophers of most importance for the human sciences, from the viewpoint of the non-specialist or the specialist in another discipline. It offers a straightforward exposition of the contribution of a number of major philosophers and schools of philosophy to the social and behavioural sciences.