Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

At turns eloquent and earthy, Abraham Lincolns rhetoric played a vital role in his success as a politician and statesman. D. Leigh Henson examines ...

At turns eloquent and earthy, Abraham Lincolns rhetoric played a vital role in his success as a politician and statesman. D. Leigh Henson examines ...

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aw...

In I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who h...

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) ...

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from En...

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...

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...

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable acces...

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...