Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To th...

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of danger cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cul...

Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable ...

The present volume is dedicated to the phenomenon of pragmaticalization in the context of the theory of grammaticalization. While, in recent decade...

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

Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Re...

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automat...

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automat...

Drawing from rich, naturally occurring language data and synthesizing insights from the fields of interpersonal pragmatics and Chinese interpersona...

This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, an...

This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, an...

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of emergent metalepsis that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events,...

The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach argues that in view of their omnipresence in human thinking and action,...

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. U...

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. U...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...