Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

How do we understand any sentence, from the most ordinary to the most creative? The traditional assumption is that we rely on formal rules combinin...

A masterfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word. No word has gen...

Objects and Attitudes develops a radically novel semantics of attitude reports, modal sentences, and quotation based on an ontology of attitudinal,...

This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to morphology, while also engaging with the latest research and developments in the field. By prese...

This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to morphology, while also engaging with the latest research and developments in the field. By prese...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

Children spend a significant amount of time interacting online rather than face-to-face. Yet we know very little about the language they use during...

This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as ...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

This Element covers the interaction of two research areas: linguistic semantics and deep learning. It focuses on three phenomena central to natural...

This Element covers the interaction of two research areas: linguistic semantics and deep learning. It focuses on three phenomena central to natural...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prio...

Emoji is everywhereon messaging apps, social networking sites, and even in offline media like billboards, films, and printed ads. While there is a ...

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and ...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

This collection introduces an innovative micro-analytical approach to interaction management in remote interpreting, offering new insights into our...

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women force...

This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspe...

This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusin...