Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the pres...

This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better Seth Godin, author of ...

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language e...

Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive t...

The concept of negative concord refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You aint seen nothing yet. This bo...

The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heighte...

It has traditionally been accepted that one cannot derive how the world ought to be from the way the world is. The discipline of bioethics endeavor...

Rhetoric and Technical Communication in HOPE VI presents a rhetorical analysis of key documents and technical writing associated with the HOPE VI, ...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduc...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduc...

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has bee...

Examining how diverse social identities are constructed in digital communication in China, this edited collection provides a multidimensional explo...

Discourse on translation, at once a term referring to any text (works of translation included) that expresses the authors views, ideas and theoriza...

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and liter...

Advances in Critical Discourse Studies collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical...

This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are employed to express cultural tra...

Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational context...

The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as the lingu...