Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The Declaration of Independence is usually celebrated as a radical document that inspired revolution in the English colonies, in France, and elsewh...

Ce volume reunit 17 articles selectionnes a l''issue du colloque La dia-variation en francais actuel. Des corpus aux ouvrages de reference (diction...

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes f...

Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining disco...

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implication...

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to e...

The 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning stud...

Recontextualized Knowledge aims to analyze the communicative situations involved in the popularization of scientific knowledge: their settings, aud...

This book takes on critical problems in current Macedonistics, with a special emphasis on text linguistics and linguistics of discourse. It focuses...

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently sim...

The aim of this volume is to look into how academic identity is discoursally constructed in CMC (computer-mediated communication), using the exampl...

Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major i...

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

We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of...

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics c...

HateSpeak in Contemporary Arabic Discourse fills in an obvious gap in discourse studies on Arabic. After a detailed semantic and metaphorical accou...

Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, pr...

This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascina...

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of inter...

This volume looks at the growing interest of different specialists in the problems associated with political discourse, in general, and parliamenta...

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Mapping Parameters of Meaning, an event organized by the GReG (Groupe...

Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications provides new insights into the complex area of discourse interpretation in a wide range of di...

This book explores the fascinating role that language plays in the construction of non-verbal objects by mapping out the ontological meaning of the...

The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disci...

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical studies carried out b...

The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters coll...

In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and ...

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in Eng...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have app...

Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that unders...