Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft aufgeb...

In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie,...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of ...

Obwohl die Konstruktionsgrammatik die semantischen Eigenschaften von grammatischen Konstruktionen in den Fokus rückt, ist bislang kein umfassender ...

In the period between 1880 and 1938, public speaking saw a remarkable rise in popularity among German-language writers. This study offers the first...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die syntaktische und semantische Struktur deklarativer und interrogativer Satztypen des Deutschen. Der erarbeitet...

Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matt...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design ...

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correct...

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or describ...

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is t...

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic...

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms. Examining the interactions between studen...

Introduction to Multimodal Analysis is a unique and accessible textbook that critically explains this ground-breaking approach to visual analysis. ...

This volume presents cutting edge linguistic research across the fields of syntax, semantics, morphology, translation studies, language acquisition...

DEMAGOGUERY AND DEMOCRACY is a brief, incisive guide to what demagogues (those who gain power by exploiting prejudice and eschewing rational argume...

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel...

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of C...

The aim of the volume is to show in which sense the study of culture, literature and the arts can contribute to a better understanding of human cog...

Want to use Critical Discourse Analysis, but not sure where to start? This book is the complete toolkit you need. Each chapter presents distinct c...

Want to use Critical Discourse Analysis, but not sure where to start? This book is the complete toolkit you need. Each chapter presents distinct c...

Supporting you with varied features throughout, this intriguing new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focus...

Supporting you with varied features throughout, this intriguing new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focus...

Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a fo...