With contributions from a global team of scholars, this is the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics. It is essential reading not only for scholars of pragmatics, but also for scholars of a wide range of related linguistic sub-disciplines.

With contributions from global experts in Korean, this handbook gives a state-of-the-art overview of key trends in Korean linguistics, ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and language pedagogy. Researchers and students will find the Handbook an invaluable resource.

Bringing together contributions from a global team of scholars, this two-volume Handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the field of language contact. Focusing on multilingualism and population structure, this second volume is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.

With contributions from a global team of scholars, this two-volume Handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the field of language contact. Focusing on population movement and language change, this first volume is ideal for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in new ecologies arising from population movement and contact.

Bringing together research from some of the most influential scholars in linguistics today, this Handbook provides a thorough guide to how context interacts with language. Surveying the latest work from a range of theoretical perspectives, it is essential reading for researchers and advanced students across a range of linguistic subfields.

This Handbook is an accessible overview, written by the leading experts in the field, of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak ('code-switching'). It provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date and covers more perspectives than any other book on this popular topic.

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

Bringing together a global team of scholars, this Handbook gives a full overview of multilingual education. It showcases how multilingual competence is developed in national systems of education, making it essential reading for researchers and students of bilingualism, multilingualism, language education, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics.

A definitive collection from the leading scholars in the field of Natural Linguistics, this groundbreaking handbook provides the first comprehensive and current account of the theory. It offers students and researchers a thorough grounding in the theory's history and development, making it a foundational reference work for years to come.

With contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this book provides a field-defining overview of the syntactic framework Role and Reference Grammar. It is essential reading for academic researchers and students in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as anyone who is interested in how grammar interfaces with meaning.