Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusin...

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now sug...

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmati...

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, Ame...

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from...

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patt...

How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the peo...

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the st...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of argumentation in the health care domain. Argumentation and Health is a collection...

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analy...

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present v...

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are ...

The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that co...

Chinas opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and c...

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this st...

This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fif...

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical stu...

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of...

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, l...

Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as d...

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic metho...

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, ...

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional com...

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation foc...

The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoi...

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk...

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is explo...

Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the worlds known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region i...

Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creat...

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writin...

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus o...

This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, ...

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offe...

This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups are conceptualized as communicat...