Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as...

Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the n...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms t...

For courses in Writing. Applying the fundamentals of good writing to a modern world The Writers Brief Handbook, 6th Edition continues the long cel...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy. This book is a result, not only of the collaboration of the t...

It's a platitude that words can harm. But some words are more prone to do so than others--they are pejorative by design. Among those, slurs are par...

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these s...

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and a...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

Illuminates one of the most widely used yet poorly understood concepts in contemporary discourse, as apt and relevant to democracy in America as it...

Welche sprachlichen Merkmale beeinflussen die Komplexität von Texten und welche Relation besteht zwischen linguistischer Textkomplexität und Textv...

The editors of this volume have combined their expertise in discourse, contradiction, minority and diversity studies to suggest a change of perspe...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicat...

In the past decade there has been a surge of interest in the study of language teacher cognition - what language teachers know, think and believe -...

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the abo...

This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genr...