Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wi...

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

Quels sont les mecanismes a l''oeuvre dans la production de sens ? Quelles dynamiques entrent en jeu dans les phenomenes d''evolution semantique ? ...

El objetivo de este libro es realizar una aportacion al estudio de las ideologias sobre la lengua en los medios de comunicacion escritos en el ambi...

Literally translated as self-culture-writing, autoethnographyas both process and productholds great promise for scholars and researchers in writing...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others aro...

Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and their structure. It combines the study of derivatio...

What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes the des...

Le volume reunit les diverses recherches presentees lors du XIeme Colloque International d''Argotologie de Leipzig 2017 par des specialistes de lit...

Este libro presenta un estudio contrastivo de las figuras retoricas de orden semantico mas prominentemente empleadas en tres corpus de notas period...

Lincoln's letters have been cited in countless biographical and critical works yet have received little scholarly attention as a whole. This com...

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information i...

Electrifying A user manual for our polarized world Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again Important, compelling...

It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline se...

In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term hate speech as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral ...

This is a study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English. Pragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describ...