This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultu

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that language

The intensification of contacts between cultures and languages has a major impact on all social spheres today. Multiculturalism and multilingualism are importan

This volume contains 33 papers presented at the 42th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at the University of Leuven in July 1995. The main purpose of

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? Wha