Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introductio...

This book, first published in 2000, addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perc...

Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal...

Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach ...

Major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the wo...

An accessible yet authoritative introduction to linguistic pragmatics using a cross-linguistic ap...

Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal...

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammat...

This collection of previously unpublished case studies of a number of Austronesian and Papuan lan...