Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

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...

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as...

Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the n...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms t...

For courses in Writing. Applying the fundamentals of good writing to a modern world The Writers Brief Handbook, 6th Edition continues the long cel...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy. This book is a result, not only of the collaboration of the t...

It's a platitude that words can harm. But some words are more prone to do so than others--they are pejorative by design. Among those, slurs are par...

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these s...

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and a...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

Illuminates one of the most widely used yet poorly understood concepts in contemporary discourse, as apt and relevant to democracy in America as it...

Welche sprachlichen Merkmale beeinflussen die Komplexität von Texten und welche Relation besteht zwischen linguistischer Textkomplexität und Textv...

The editors of this volume have combined their expertise in discourse, contradiction, minority and diversity studies to suggest a change of perspe...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicat...

In the past decade there has been a surge of interest in the study of language teacher cognition - what language teachers know, think and believe -...

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the abo...

This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genr...