Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The period between the 1960s and 1970s is easily one of the most controversial in American history. Examining the liberal movements of the era as w...

Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consum...

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the s...

The longevity of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, suggests that it is possible for a social change organization to sim...

This volume examines subordinate wh-clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh-word seems to deviate fro...

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the ...

The papers compiled in the present volume reflect the key theme of the most recent Duo Colloquium sessions contextuality. The psychological notion...

Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old ver...

Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearer...

Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between ...

Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It survey...

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, alon...

Legal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulat...

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language w...

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common language for communication between speakers whose first ...

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic op...

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages ...

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of...

Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an inter...

Reference is a major theme in the study of language and language use. Providing a relevance-theoretic account of reference resolution, this book de...

Meaning Is Everywhere sketches a theory of meaning from the ground upwith potentially profound consequences. In a sweeping narrative that arcs from...

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Sc...

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic d...

Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and ph...

This volume contains Carnap's Studies in Semantics, a series of three interlocking books: Introduction to Semantics (1942), Formalization of Logic ...

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a pa...

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the general theoretical and architectural issues that nom...

This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn ini...

This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double bind...

Senza richiedere prerequisiti il testo si propone di fornire una dimostrazione dei fondamentali teoremi della logica matematica (compattezza, compl...

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication ...

This volume examines crucial moments in the rhetoric of the Cold War, beginning with an exploration of American neutrality and the debate over ente...

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. D...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examinati...

Due miliardi e mezzo di utenti internet, oltre un miliardo di account Facebook, 550 milioni di profili Twitter. Che parlano, discutono, si confront...

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a rel...