Discourse Analysis

This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their...

Winner of the Association for Business Communications Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016This edited volume offers a col...

This book is the first to explore the constitution of language learner agency by drawing on performativity theory, an approach that remains on the ...

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that na...

Feminism and rhetoric have not always been overlapping terms. While neglected as subjects of scholarly interest for many years, women were nonethel...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on di...

Drawing on the pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and student editor insights of The Argument Handbook, The Argument Toolbox is a very concise resource d...

In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Read...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in e...

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gasss Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the fie...

The first book to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of professions and institutions in exploring how people develop and may...

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the s...

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic d...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolit...

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds ...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they empl...

The first history of early modern conversation in EnglishIn the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the lei...

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication. What can a...