Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (we). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the...

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in add...

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Sinc...

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by partic...

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different lan...

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are use...

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labellin...

Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twi...

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ''long'' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth ...

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critics position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning th...

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a ...

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ''clusivity'' as an overarching...

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, with...

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and i...

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax ...

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exi...

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-i...

It seems to be a truism that todays news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago....

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for an...

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology. While legal concepts frame legal knowledge and take center st...

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of servic...

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contr...

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contempo...

This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics - the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a ...