Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorismsor philosophical short sayingsappear eve...

The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To dat...

Decoding Ad Culture: Television Commercials and Broadcast Regulations in Bangladesh critically examines the pervasive influence of Western multinat...

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the ...

As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction, humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but are also engaging ...

Les recherches sur les marqueurs discursifs ont connu un extraordinaire essor ces dernières décennies. Le présent ouvrage les aborde dans leur dime...

Fringe Rhetorics: Conspiracy Theories and the Paranormal identifies these rhetorical similarities of conspiracy theories and paranormal accounts by...

The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical pe...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes geben Auskunft, wie Forschung und Lehre am Institut für Translationswissenschaft (INTRAWI) aufgestellt sind, um mit der ...

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and r...

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A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in...

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about ...

Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers.

From Blues to Beyoncé amplifies Black women's ongoing public assertions of resistance, agency, and hope across different media from the nineteenth ...

This paper presents a semantico-syntactic description of the noun phrase from a new perspective, that of the generative lexicon. The analysis propo...

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking cours...

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking cours...

On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an illuminationthe realization that man was naturally ...

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Who is the human in media philosophy? Although media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human...

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social...

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This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings togeth...

Pragmatics the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people say is a core subject in English language, linguistics, a...

Pragmatics the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people say is a core subject in English language, linguistics, a...

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social...

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

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers across different ...

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim tha...

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

This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectne...

Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matte...

This volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes r...

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

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs...

Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of th...

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of t...

For more than two thousand years. Aristotles Art of Rhetoric has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speec...

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how...

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alter...