Language allows humans to act cooperatively, to plan, and to remember. It is the prime factor in the constitution of groups as well as a major barrier between groups. Language policy and planning is rarely just about language; it always has political, social and ethical dimensions. This is a comprehensive advanced textbook, covering not only language learning imposed by economic or political agendas but also language choices entered into freely for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage or group identity. The first part of the book reviews the development and role of standard languages in the construction of national communities and identities. The second part examines the linguistic accommodation of groups in contact, major lingua francas and the case of 'International English'. The third section explores reactions to nationalism and globalization, with some attention to language rights. The book further deals with methodological problems of working in this interdisciplinary area, and provides detailed illustrations from a range of countries and communities.

The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states.

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.

In this ambitious and wide-ranging text, Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them.

Examining the distinction between literal and metaphorical language, Goatly surveys the means by which metaphors are realized in texts and locates the interpretation of metaphor in its social context. The Language of Metaphors is enlivened by the choice, variety and humor of its real examples which are taken from a wide variety of genres including conversation, popular science, advertising, news reports, novels and poetry. Supplemented with exercises and a suggested reading list, this book will provide students of language, psychology and literature with an invaluable guide to understanding precisely how metaphors function.</P>

《阿拉伯语篇章语言学》内容简介：语言学是一门内涵很广的学问，它经历了19世纪的历时语言学和20世纪的共时语言学研究。20世纪前半期，人们的研究重点是结构主义语言学；20世纪后半期，人们的研究重点是转换生成语言学。篇章语言学是继结构主义语言学、转换生成语言学之后，于60年代中期至70年代逐步形成的一个语言学分支，是现代语言学发展趋势下兴起的一门新学科，它为语言学开拓了一个新的研究领域。

此书辨析的多爲生活中的常用词语，如：点赞、活该、空手套白狼、拖后腿、无赖等。作者从不同角度对词语来源进行论证。例如：辨析“含桃（樱桃）”一词时，作者还用英语的cherry 和日语的“桜”进行了佐证。作者景盛轩为甘肃静宁人，选取了西北的一些方言进行辨析，如 “踩踩”（台阶）、“稠出出”（稠）、“吊股子”（长骨架）等。
毛血旺，许多人以为这是由毛肚和血旺做成的菜。其实这道菜的主料是血旺（鸭血、猪血皆可），辅料有没有毛肚都无关紧要。所以“毛”并不指毛肚。考《说文·艸部》：“芼，草覆蔓。”段注：“《毛郑诗考正》曰：‘芼，菜之烹于肉湇者也。’”“湇”，肉汁。考重庆毛血旺的做法，正是在杂碎汤里直接放入血旺烹制而成，和“菜之烹于肉湇者也”解释相合。《集韵·皓韵》：“芼，以菜和羹。”“芼”有拌和义，例如南朝梁刘孝标《送橘启》：“可以熏神，可以芼鲜，可以渍蜜。”龚自珍《己亥杂诗》之二三七：“芼以苏州小橄榄，可敌北方冬菘腌。”古代又有芼羹，指用菜和肉做成的羹。北魏贾思勰《齐民要术·羹臛法》：“食脍鱼莼羹，芼羹之菜，莼为第一。”王安石《次韵约之谢惠诗》：“闻说芼羹臛，芬香出邻壁。”“芼羹臛”是指菜肉混杂的带汁菜肴。——景盛轩《词源丛札》

Winner of the 2002 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology presented by Division 7 (Developmental Psychology Division) of the American Psychological Association (APA). The award is given to the author of a book in the field of psychology that has had or promises to have a profound effect on one or more of the areas represented by Division 7 of the APA. and Winner of the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition in the category of Psychology, presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind.
According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways.
This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.

篇章语言学（也称话语语言学）是一门年轻的学科，它是50年代以后才发展起来的；作为独立的学科，它直到70年代才有较快的进展。篇章语言学的研究对象是比句子更大的语言单位，包括书面语言和口头语言。语篇的结构、句子的排列、句际关系、会话结构、语篇的指向性、信息度、句子间的语句衔接和语义连贯等等，都是篇章语言学的研究内容。篇章语言学与语法学、文体学、语用学、语义学等学科关系十分密切，这些领域的研究都常常涉及篇章语言学的研究内容。
《语篇分析概要/语言学系列教材》依据篇章语言学的一些理论和方法，主要对英语的篇章结构作了一些分析。由于这本小册子没有系统地讨论篇章语言学的内容，故取名《语篇分析概要》。尽管这《语篇分析概要/语言学系列教材》是一本普及性读物，但我们相信，它是能够帮助对语篇分析较陌生的读者了解这门学科的主要研究范围、内容和方法的。
本书包括：绪论、语篇分析的基本内容、语篇与语篇分析、语篇与信息、篇章的联结手段等内容。

《中古近代汉语语法研究述要》一书，主要研究中古及近代汉语的各种语法现象，从17个方面叙述了汉语语法的历史变化，并探讨这一时段语法演变的特点与规律。另从古人的著述中“披沙拣金”选录了若干材料，从三个方面概述古代学者对中古近代汉语语法学所作出的贡献。可以看出，古人对中古近代语法现象关注和研究是不系统也不深入的。我们既要重视古人的有价值的发现和见解，更应该循此进行细致的调查和周密的论证。

This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification and binding, intensionality and tense, and so on. To set their approach in a broader perspective, the authors also explore the interaction of meaning with context and use (the semantics-pragmatics interface) and address some of the foundational questions, especially in connection with cognition in general. They also introduce a few of the most accessible and interesting ideas from recent research to give the reader a bit of the flavor of current work in semantics. The organization of this new edition is modular; after the introductory chapters, the remaining material can be covered in flexible order. The book presupposes no background in formal logic (an appendix introduces the basic notions of set theory) and only a minimal acquaintance with linguistics. This edition includes a substantial amount of completely new material and has been not only updated but redesigned throughout to enhance its user-friendliness.

Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and model theory. The section on algebra is presented with an emphasis on lattices as well as Boolean and Heyting algebras. Background for recent research in natural language semantics includes sections on lambda-abstraction and generalized quantifiers. Chapters on automata theory and formal languages contain a discussion of languages between context-free and context-sensitive and form the background for much current work in syntactic theory and computational linguistics. The many exercises not only reinforce basic skills but offer an entry to linguistic applications of mathematical concepts. For upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students in theoretical linguistics, computer-science students with interests in computational linguistics, logic programming and artificial intelligence, mathematicians and logicians with interests in linguistics and the semantics of natural language

Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor. Features of Philosophy of Language include: New chapters on Frege and puzzles, inferentialism, illocutionary theories of meaning and relevance theory chapter overviews and summaries clear supportive examples study questions annotated further reading glossary

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

CONTENTS
1 The Fundamrntal Question
2 Putting a Meaning Together from Pieces
3 More about Predicates
4 Modifiers
5 Complexities of Referring Expressions
6 Quantifiers
7 Extensional vs. Intensional Contexts
8 Tense, Aspect, and Modality
9 Propositional Attitudes
10 The pragmatics of What's Given
11 The Pragmatics of Inference
12 Formal Semantics Today

汉语具有三千余年的文献历史和丰富多样的方言类型，因此就语法化研究而言，汉语有着其他任何一种语言所无法比拟的优势，语法化无疑是汉语语言学特别是汉语语法学中的一个最具前景的研究领域。20世纪70年代以来，已有若干研究汉语的学者开始致力于汉语的语法化研究。这本论文集总结汉语语法化的研究成果，从汉语的实际出发，通过语言事实的发掘和描写，揭示藏于其中的规律和机制，从而概括出若干语法化原则和语言演变理论。进一步推动和促进汉语语法化研究和汉语语言学研究。