Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety ...

The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives...

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct...

The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a member phenomenon. To document this statemen...

In this original and highly accomplished study, first published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relat...

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and pr...

With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of d...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**Unmissable Stephen Fry'A delight' Katherine RundellIlluminating Susie Dent'Brilliant' Phili...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective. It encompasses a wide range of theoretical and practic...

The aim of this book is to provide a comparative analysis of intra- and inter- linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological stud...

A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio. While other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been published, Six...

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level. The book sheds light o...

Engaging Ambience is an in-depth exploration of contemporary rhetorical theory, drawing from rich traditions of visual and sensory research. It is ...

Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding,...

The Book of Proceedings features a selection of papers presented at the 54th Linguistics Colloquium: Linguistic Encoding / Decoding in Global Conte...

This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaningin all its possible facetsas the key to scientific explanation. It b...