Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times....

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech...

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some tr...

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustration...

In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. ...

'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 o...

From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosop...

Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Feminism is a powerful new interpretation of British art fr...

Hailed by the New York Times as a book that examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence  An...

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new...

Research on quotation has yielded a rich and diverse knowledge-base. Scientific interest has been sparked particularly by the recent emergence of n...

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. Al...

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact on society, especially in cog...

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact on society, especially in cog...

The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number o...

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes: * qualitative, quanti...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette WintersonA l...

The general aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of metonymy, a phenomenon which still, despite the current upsurge in schol...

This collection offers support for instructors who are concerned about students critical literacy abilities. Attending to critical reading to help ...

Writing for College and Beyond: Life Lessons from the College Composition Classroom explains how the many skills taught in the Freshman Composition...

An investigation of the influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illnes...