While studying comparative law, Mattila (U. of Lapland, Finland) realized that a big part of the field entails analyzing differences between legal concepts in different legal systems, which are expres
A language is a complex structure represented in the minds of its speakers, and this book provides the tools necessary for understanding this structure.It explains basic concepts and recent theoretica
It is one of the first books to provide a complete and authoritative overview of the current state of the field. Each of the 15 chapters offers an extended survey of a central element in applied lingu