Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaini...

This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide ...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

This book is a study of modern Bengali words based on the data obtained from a corpus of written texts. The author has used all kinds of data, info...

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. Davi...

This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly special...

This book reconceptualises the idea of post-truth. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on ...

Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writer...

Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writer...

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, ho...

Dialogues represents argument not as a battle to be won, but as a process of dialogue and deliberationthe exchange of opinions and ideasamong peopl...

For courses in First-Year Composition. Bestselling authors Kathleen McWhorter and Jane Aaron have joined forces to create The Successful W...

Nexus presents the traditional rhetorical modes as different ways of thinking about our contemporary world, no matter the medium. It builds on stud...

For courses in Writing.   Shows students Whats the point? of improving writing skills Writing for Life: Sentences and Paragraphs is part of a two-...

For courses in English and Writing.   Emphasizes the importance of style in writing for a global audience Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace asse...

For courses in first-year composition and rhetoric. Grammar as a valuable tool for the writer Rhetorical Grammar encourages writers to recogn...

Polysemous lexical items have multiple senses associated with a single form, and these senses are interrelated. Polysemy is a universal and omnipre...

Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles, perhaps best known from polit...

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

A concise introduction to the field of theoretical pragmatics and its applications in second language acquisition and English-language instruction ...

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work ...

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...

It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and ...

It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and ...

This book offers a collection of papers tackling aspects in the fields of Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, teaching and translation. The co...

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive s...

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in themand those who dont Sma...

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in themand those who dont Sma...

A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amen...

What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the ...

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

In recent years, norms, normalities, and normativities have been disrupted. Although the idea of normal is local and subjective, norms are essenti...

This volume delves into Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS), providing a deeper understanding of the social practices that underpin discourse...

Democratic Disunity: Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020 addresses that while attention has recently and rightly been paid to the tribal bifurcation of th...

Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people are very divid...

The Roman Catholic Church has been criticized for many reasons, including its legalism. The growing aversion of church members to the law and the c...

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundat...

Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means...

This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are ...