Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and s...

A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism.I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a v...

In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a d...

This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. Addressing a range of linguistic and cultural topi...

Explor[es] the underlying history and psychology of public discourse . . . should be required reading for politicians and public advocates. Real Ch...

This volume focuses on multimodality in various communicative settings, with special attention to how non-verbal elements reinforce and add meaning...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...

Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provi...

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse,...

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse,...

News media and popular culture in the United States have produced a conventional narrative of the outcomes of sexual abuse: someone perpetrates sex...

As teaching practices adapt to changing technologies, budgetary constraints, new student populations, and changing employment practices, writing pr...

La problematique de l''interpretation, entendue comme un processus dynamique de la lecture ou comme une reception creative de la production verbale...

This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Span...

This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphol...

A biography of two troublesome words. Isn''t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I''m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of...

In Transforming Ethos Rosanne Carlo synthesizes philosophy, rhetorical theory, and composition theory to clarify the role of ethos and its potentia...