Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the mas...

Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of socio...

The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in teaching written skills between rhetoric/composition an...

Rhetoric and Resilience explores discourse produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. ...

This book examines how identities are constructed in digital, multimodal discourse, and how these identities (gender, age, race, ethnicity, profess...

For courses in Developmental Reading. Builds on the skills for college reading success Bridging the Gap encourages students to build o...

Storytelling as a cultural practice permeates all phases and areas of human life and opens up possible worlds. From their earliest days, children g...

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they ne...

Syntax puts our meaning (semantics) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a str...

This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner ...

The book scrutinizes the language of Polish-origin Highlanders living in CarpathianBukovina. Krasowska has personal, direct knowledge of the life, ...

Critical Sexuality Studies (CSS) and Lavender Languages/Linguistics (LLL) are leading modes of inquiry in two different fields of sexuality studies...

What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical...

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language use...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

The Mixed Game Model represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings competence-in-performance and describes how language i...

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines superhero narratives through the lens of American rhetoric a...

The Revolution Will Be Spotified investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemente...

In The Autonomy of Reference: On the Relational Structure of Nominals, Zoltán Vecsey defends a moderate autonomy thesis concerning the explanatory ...