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This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the d...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific me...

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive lingui...

By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe ...

This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in linguistics. Specific topics discussed include ...

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse th...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship o...

Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific CommunicationRespondin...

Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Genre Studies gathers major works that have contributed to the recent rhetorical reconceptualization of genre. A live...

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of diffe...

Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centre...

In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawi...

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled Thirty Years of Talk. For 30 years, Okano ...

Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-repr...

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a li...

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse ...

In this monograph, Felicity Rash examines German colonialist texts through the lens of linguistics, using multiple analytic approaches in order to ...

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshires influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatic...

Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of pro and con' where the aim is to persuad...

This book seeks to extend research on framing beyond linguistic and cognitive perspectives by examining framing in visual and multimodal texts and ...

Victoria Welby (18371912) dedicated her research to the relationship between signs and values. She exchanged ideas with important exponents of the ...

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and c...

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor....

Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various me...

Elite Discourse examines how language and communication or just discourse define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does so from the per...

Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of b...

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate eco...

This book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation...

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videog...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in...

This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity constructi...

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolans pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing p...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter-...

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has bee...

This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins. Using a critical socio...

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstra...

This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how...

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. Th...

Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-c...

This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment...

This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented a...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creativ...

The Language of Hallyu will re-examine the language of the Korean Wave by looking at popular K-content. In doing so, it will expose the meanings th...

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing ...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...

New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...