Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This book includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gen...

Ellipsen stellen eine sprachliche Form dar, die wiederkehrend und mit erkennbaren ästhetischen Funktionen in literarischen Texten vorzufinden ist. ...

The notion of controversy space is the key element of the new model of scientific and philosophical change introduced in this book. Devised as an a...

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond th...

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding ...

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry,...

This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The ...

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it pre...

Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative m...

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is i...

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters ...

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisci...

Conversation Analysis (CA) is one of the predominant methods for the detailed study of human social interaction. Bringing together thirty-four chap...

In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H. van Eemeren brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argument...

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologie...

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, inter...

Since the general tendencies of present-day English focus more on idiomatic usage, it seems to be worth paying attention to the role phraseological...

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospita...

The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involvi...

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three c...

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in var...