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

A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first p...

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...

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

This collection of previously unpublished case studies of a number of Austronesian and Papuan lan...