Since September 11th 2001 and the commencement of the war on terror, the worlds attention has been focused on the relationship between US foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the regions soil.

This book examines the twentieth-century rise and fall of state-owned enterprises in Western political economy.

Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time...

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to...

This volume, now available in paperback, provides a comprehensive view of the central issues in...

There is an increasing awareness in linguistics that linguistic patterns can be explained with...

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to ...

The contributions to this book explore recent internal developments within Cognitive Linguistics from the point of view of its interdisciplinary nature. The book makes relevant connections between CL and other approaches to language, especially, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse studies. The contributorsinvestigate a...