Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, security has become one of the most overused words in culture and politi...

Die These dieser Arbeit ist, dass der Konjunktiv in der indirekten Rede ein logophorischer Modus ist, d.h. ein Verbmodus, der sich auf eine von der...

Philosophie und Rhetorik entwickelten sich in klassischer Zeit zu einem festen Bestandteil der athenischen Kultur. Vom Wert und Nutzen der neuen Bi...

Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader ...

Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25 years. The Psychology After Critique series bri...

This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the chall...

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him ...

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they soughtand continu...

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they soughtand continu...

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the so...

The second edition of this highly regarded textbook is designed to introduce students at the tertiary level to both Systemic Functional Linguistics...

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers ...

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political ...

Over the past few decades, cognitive linguistic research has turned metonymy from the poor sister of metaphor into a ubiquitous conceptual phenomen...

The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. Each companion is a comprehensive reference...

This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Grounded in the field of aspectua...

An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and g...

Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major i...

An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and g...

The analysis is a contribution to contemporary linguistics, particularly the theory of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Within the theoretical fra...

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in acad...

Have dictionaries of English indeed affected their users predisposition towards women to such an extent that we can posit a causal relation between...

This book explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used approach...

Beyond the well-known reading and spelling difficulties, dyslexic individuals exhibit marked phonological disorders, poor lexical retrieval and pro...

This study provides a comprehensive examination of Middle English names of medical preparations found in the available medical works produced in th...

This book investigates possible common objects of inquiry in philosophy of language and literature. The topics discussed include proper names (anal...

From the early 1940s through the 1960s, some of the most important articles in rhetoric and composition were written by University of Chicago facul...

This book consists of scientific chapters devoted to innovative approaches to examination of anthropocentrism. It depicts human beings as physical,...

This book offers a range of empirically-based case studies in the field of cultural linguistics and neighbouring disciplines such as intercultural ...

The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language (L2) proficiency development over time and/o...

Nach der internationalen Tagung, die an der Universität zu Créteil am 10. März 2017 zu Ehren Jean-Marie Zembs abgehalten wurde, ist diesem nun der ...

The volume Learning second language pragmatics beyond traditional contexts is a collection of studies dealing with the acquisition of second langua...

This book shows how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can benefit from the cooperation with a variety of other language-related disciplines...

This book offers an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises in terms of political and ethica...

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate stud...

This Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of ...

Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, ...

Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic Histor...

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution...