Books published by Cambridge University Press

With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive overview of discourse-pragmatic variation and change. It has a particular focus on the theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen around this topic in recent years, and includes examples from a wide range of languages.

Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this volume explores the relationship between factors influencing how language is processed in the mind and the range of different types of word structures found across languages of the world. It is aimed at linguists, particularly morphologists and typologists, and cognitive scientists.

This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts in which people grappled with their mortality in Renaissance England. Illuminating death's intersections with gender, sex, and race, this book offers indispensable insights into living with death in early modern England.

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary collection reveals a surprising undercurrent in the work of a diverse group of thinkers and traces their ongoing legacy in intellectual history.

Bringing together a team of leading experts, this uniquely designed book surveys and compares an array of methods and approaches in corpus linguistic research to stimulate critical discussion of recent developments. This timely volume will be essential reading for linguists interested in advanced corpus linguistic approaches to variation and change.

Does human rights law work? This book engages in this heated debate through a detailed analysis of thirty years of the right to health - perhaps the most complex human right - in Brazil. Are Brazilians better off three decades after the enactment of the right to health in the 1988 Constitution? Has the flurry of litigation experienced in Brazil helped or harmed the majority of the population? This book offers an in-depth analysis of these complex and controversial questions grounded on a wealth of empirical data. The book covers the history of the recognition of health as a human right in the 1988 Constitution through the Sanitary Movement's campaign and the subsequent three decades of what Ferraz calls the politics and judicialization of health. It challenges positions of both optimists and sceptics of human rights law and will be of interest to those looking for a more nuanced analysis.

Bringing together a team of scholars from linguistics and philosophy, this book bridges the gap between the two fields, which while closely related, are often approached with very different methodologies and processes. Accessible and engaging, it is essential reading for researchers and students in both disciplines.

Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this handbook is a mosaic of language repertoires of early multilingualism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the different facets of multilingualism, seen through the unique prism of children, society and institutions throughout their childhood.

This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, phonetics, syntax, and grammar, and taking into account a range of genres and contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of different disciplines, languages and cultures.

Written by a team of experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the key issues in Chinese linguistics, from a range of perspectives. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies in language sciences involving the Chinese language.

Focusing on Hindi, Spanish and Romanian, this novel book explores the language acquisition and transmission of heritage languages in the United States. It is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of linguistics and multilingualism, immigration, education studies and language policy, as well as language educators and policy makers.

Will you meet the challenges of rare headaches in a time-constrained environment? Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this guide from leading experts in neurology and emergency medicine offers practitioners a direct insight into the diagnostic and management approach to a patient presenting with headache to the emergency department.

This volume collects together all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years, together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. The texts are accompanied by an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and detailed textual information about the manuscripts.

Jane Austen's final novel is characterised by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work. This edition was first published in 2006.

Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel: the full implications of its plot are only revealed by a second reading. This volume, first published in 2005, provides explanatory notes, an extensive introduction, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.

In recent years, Mansfield Park has come to be regarded as Austen's most controversial novel. It was published in two editions in her lifetime and here the 1814 and 1816 texts are fully collated for the first time. All the variants are included on the page, allowing readers to see the differences between the first edition and the second, which include some important amendments made by Jane Austen herself. Also included, with a brief note on Elizabeth Inchbald, is the text of Lovers' Vows, the play around which much of the plot of Mansfield Park revolves. The volume, first published in 2005, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' With this famous declaration Jane Austen launches into the story of the five Bennet sisters. It is a story that on first reading is full of suspense, surprise and, ultimately, satisfaction, and which on re-reading commands, in addition, admiration for the author's supreme skill in managing a deceptively complex plot to its triumphant conclusion. First published in 1813, and Austen's most popular novel in her own lifetime, Pride and Prejudice has since been widely recognised as one of the finest novels in the English language. This volume, first published in 2006, provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel (1811), introduced its readers to many of the themes which would dominate Austen's future work. On one level it is a simple story of two sisters finding fulfilment within a society bounded by regulations and restrictions. But on another it is a comprehensive exploration of the moral dilemmas facing young women in the choices they have to make about their lives. Austen writes about everyday events of her own time with a subtlety and sensitivity unprecedented in the English novel. This edition, first published in 2006, takes as its copytext the second edition of 1813, which corrects some errors of the first edition. The volume provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen.

Global security, climate and health challenges have called into question our capacity to cope with change. Criticizing mainstream norm, practice and realist theory, Jason Ralph offers a 'Pragmatic Constructivist' theory of learning, which is then used to assess international society's problem-solving capacities.

This complete collection of Jane Austen's childhood writings, including her sister Cassandra's illustrations to Jane's 'The History of England', vividly showcases their rambunctious, indecorous and surreal character. Explanatory endnotes illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.