Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters. Taking a psychoa...

The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference m...

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control The contemp...

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control The contemp...

This volume deals with the interplay between personal identity and language, with a special focus on interactions involving political correctness, ...

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhet...

Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies, rhetorical criti...

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolit...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds ...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they empl...

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with div...

Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse gro...

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhet...

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

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías...

How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polar...

This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book examines the program i...

Addressing both language teachers and identity researchers, this book underlines the importance of identity in ELT through an analysis of teacher s...

These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de ...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual material, to examine atti...

This book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and English Language an accessible overview of the structural...

This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language with...

The first history of early modern conversation in EnglishIn the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the lei...

Combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws on a range of spoken and written data collected from a variety of contexts. It...

Languages around the world organize their lexicons, or vocabularies, in a myriad of different ways. This book is a celebration of global linguistic...

Languages around the world organize their lexicons, or vocabularies, in a myriad of different ways. This book is a celebration of global linguistic...