Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests ...

While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snap...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make...

Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the sociohistorical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of th...

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This b...

Verbal and nonverbal communicative acts mark the links within our discourse, help us to exchange turns and give backchannel in conversation. This b...

This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination ...

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal...

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal...

Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use?...

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.

This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices fro...

This book covers the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in semantics that students in linguistics and language studies will encounter. Key Ter...

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breast...

Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be...

This book is strongly related to two essential features of human life: migratory movements and metaphors. Migratory movements can be undoubtedly de...

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Ashers (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the the...

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In real...

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to ...

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both...

The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology draws on nearly 7,000 published MLB game summaries to explore the contours of ba...

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...