Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaini...

This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide ...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

This book is a study of modern Bengali words based on the data obtained from a corpus of written texts. The author has used all kinds of data, info...

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. Davi...

This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly special...

This book reconceptualises the idea of post-truth. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on ...

Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writer...

Nancy Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writer...

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, ho...

Dialogues represents argument not as a battle to be won, but as a process of dialogue and deliberationthe exchange of opinions and ideasamong peopl...

For courses in First-Year Composition. Bestselling authors Kathleen McWhorter and Jane Aaron have joined forces to create The Successful W...

Nexus presents the traditional rhetorical modes as different ways of thinking about our contemporary world, no matter the medium. It builds on stud...

For courses in Writing.   Shows students Whats the point? of improving writing skills Writing for Life: Sentences and Paragraphs is part of a two-...

For courses in English and Writing.   Emphasizes the importance of style in writing for a global audience Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace asse...

For courses in first-year composition and rhetoric. Grammar as a valuable tool for the writer Rhetorical Grammar encourages writers to recogn...

Polysemous lexical items have multiple senses associated with a single form, and these senses are interrelated. Polysemy is a universal and omnipre...