Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to...

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover n...

Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light o...

Biotechnological advancements during the last half-century have forced humanity to come to grips with the possibility of a post-human future. The e...

Deutschsprachige Erzähltexte des Mittelalters verbinden das Problemfeld von Herrschaft und sozialer Ordnung oft mit der Darstellung rednerischer Ko...

Religiöser Glaube ist nicht nur naiv, sondern gefährlich. Denn er ist verantwortlich für Kriege, Diskriminierung und Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit. So...

La obra examina el impacto que la semántica verbal, en concreto la telicidad y la afectación, ejerce sobre el marcado diferencial de objeto (MDO) e...

Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen zwischen Wortbildungen als morphologische Konstruktionen einerseits und geschriebenen wie gesprochenen Text...

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of...

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In real...

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication. What can a...

A new framework for understanding how algorithms influenceWeb applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-l...

Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest? What were the effects of this win, and ...

er Schwerpunkt des Bandes 51 liegt auf der Analyse einer Reihe literarischer Texte, die sich thematisch und inhaltlich unterscheiden. Dazu gehören ...

In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in history. From mortgages to student loans, from credit ca...

The nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of r...

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contextsEntitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality offers a...

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for a...

Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as the Elder or the Athenian, was born to a distinguished family with close ti...

Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of Frames of Reference, these do not extend to a wide...

Political Discourse Analysis addresses the challenges facing political actors at all levels of society and across a range of regimes. It shows how ...

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics examines the rhetoric surrounding women who hold or have held the highe...

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition: A Reintroduction of The Black Messiah considers how Albert Cleage Jr., in his groundb...

Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the mas...

Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers: Archival Impulses explores the intersection of Chicana/o/x studies, Latin...