Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles, perhaps best known from polit...

The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical pe...

A concise introduction to the field of theoretical pragmatics and its applications in second language acquisition and English-language instruction ...

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work ...

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case. Creating Legal Worlds is a study of how that na...

It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and ...

It is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and ...

This book offers a collection of papers tackling aspects in the fields of Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, teaching and translation. The co...

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive s...

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in themand those who dont Sma...

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in themand those who dont Sma...

A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amen...

What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the ...

Feminism and rhetoric have not always been overlapping terms. While neglected as subjects of scholarly interest for many years, women were nonethel...

In recent years, norms, normalities, and normativities have been disrupted. Although the idea of normal is local and subjective, norms are essenti...

This volume delves into Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS), providing a deeper understanding of the social practices that underpin discourse...

Democratic Disunity: Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020 addresses that while attention has recently and rightly been paid to the tribal bifurcation of th...

Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people are very divid...

The Roman Catholic Church has been criticized for many reasons, including its legalism. The growing aversion of church members to the law and the c...

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundat...

Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means...

This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are ...