Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This monograph investigates questions around new speakers of Breton, their identities, attitudes, and motivations, and how these intersect with lin...

Linguistic Theories of Humor appeared thirty years ago. It attracted a lot of attention and ended up being one of the most quoted books in the lin...

The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself fr...

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between dis...

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

This book contains an original collection of contributions that deal with the use of a methodology based on, driven, or assisted by corpora to anal...

Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book. Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creati...

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from En...

At turns eloquent and earthy, Abraham Lincolns rhetoric played a vital role in his success as a politician and statesman. D. Leigh Henson examines ...

At turns eloquent and earthy, Abraham Lincolns rhetoric played a vital role in his success as a politician and statesman. D. Leigh Henson examines ...

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aw...

In I Grew Up in the Church: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who h...

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) ...

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from En...

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...