Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Like many other human activities, translation is related to different forms of power. It can be the ability to control and set the rules. With wri...

The volume fills a gap in the lively international debate on terminology and discourse by uncovering the new possibilities offered by analysing ter...

Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-relat...

This monograph presents Old English renderings of Christian words found in interlinear glosses, especially the Gospels and the Psalter glosses. Nou...

Textbooks have long been considered a pivotal learning and teaching resource in classrooms. However, there is a paucity of research on how teachers...

Renaissance England was marked by a pervasive culture of courtesy. The research hypothesis of this book is that verbal courtesy, for historical and...

The contributors to the volume, coming from different areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, address several timely and important issues that...

Recent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in on cognition, verbal choices and performance. () [and] have provided interesting...

This volume presents research into the syntax and semantics of English deverbal compound adjectives based on the passive and active participles, e....

The volume is a collection of twelve carefully selected chapters covering the most in-depth and innovative studies in the field of applied translat...

This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it f...

This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it f...

This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimal...

This book proposes a framework of analysis tailored specifically for a critical investigation of the ideology of power as it is linguistically illu...

This book provides a research-driven discussion of how the epistemic potential of multilingual writing strategies can be conceptualized, investigat...

This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in c...

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at...

Theres No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate...

The Futurists produced most conspicuous, creative, and diverse figures of sound in the Polish avant-garde. The book is a comparative study of the P...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With cont...

In this book, Sarah Mayberry Scott bridges the seemingly insurmountable divide between sound studies and deaf studies by considering the persuasive...

This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different ...

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epis...

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language. Agreement is ...

This Open Access book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers i...

Linguistic research has always, either explicitly or implicitly, dealt with the interaction of linguistic phenomena and extralinguistic reality. Wh...

Linguistic research has always, either explicitly or implicitly, dealt with the interaction of linguistic phenomena and extralinguistic reality. Wh...