Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to the...

Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives?Shining a light on the technology currently being de...

This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students...

Rhetorical Investigations of the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Body in Media: Countering a Wicked Problem examines the power of hegemonic institution...

En articulant les questions de variation, de plurilinguisme, d''evaluation et d''authenticite, cet ouvrage nourrit des debats actuels en francais l...

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typol...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, e...

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-...

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city ...

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others...

Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an ex...

In this timely study, Ofer Feldman, Sonja Zmerli, and their team of experts shed light on the multiple ways communication affects political behavio...

Cet ouvrage essaie de croiser langues et cultures a travers le prisme de la phraseologie. L''etude de la phraseologie, qu''elle soit menee dans un ...

The contributions collected in this book deal with the representation of conflict in the periodical press, which has often been an arena of adversa...

This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europes linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European ...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhe...

A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Fu...

Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what ha...

The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use by students, teachers, an...

This engaging text explores how everyday talk--the ordinary kinds of communicating that people do in schools, workplaces, and among family and frie...

Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on just one end of th...

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in...

I'm not a racist, but You look good, for your age She was asking for it You're crazy That's so gay Have you ever wondered why certain language has ...

An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various typ...

The two-volume set LNAI 13495 and LNAI 13496, constitute the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLS...

Threatening is among the less pleasant things we do with words, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role i...