Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundat...

Dew on the Grass: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anto...

The study of language contact in the new English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate langua...

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as...

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level descri...

Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matt...

This volume examines the role of writing, rhetoric, and literacy programs and approaches in the practice of civic engagement in global contexts. Wr...

Robert Scholes passed away on December 9, 2016, leaving behind an intellectual legacy focused broadly on textuality. Scholess work had a significan...

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorismsor short philosophical sayingsappear eve...

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the regionDepictions of Appalachian food culture and ...

A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the regionDepictions of Appalachian food culture and ...

Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. M...

Most books about presidential rhetoric focus on the United States. Few American communication scholars concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe. M...

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone inter...

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and lit...