Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research an...

Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second la...

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dial...

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.   Why is it difficult to talk about climate change...

A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 612, Revised Edition is a how-to and, ultimately, a why-to book for middle school and h...

This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Ra...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

Focusing on overt and covert violence and bringing attention to the many ways violence inflects and infects the teaching, administration, and schol...

Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence examines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day...

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and g...

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...

The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently politic...

This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidisciplinary and multimodal perspe...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters. Taking a psychoa...

The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference m...

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control The contemp...

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control The contemp...

This volume deals with the interplay between personal identity and language, with a special focus on interactions involving political correctness, ...

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhet...

Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies, rhetorical criti...

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolit...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds ...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they empl...

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with div...

Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse gro...

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhet...

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him ...

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías...

How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polar...

This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program i...