Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analys...

In the seven years following the publication of the much-lauded major work, Conversation Analysis, a number of exciting developments in field have ...

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first i...

Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate ...

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English as (a child). It focuses on the distribut...

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary...

Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical is...

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which ...

Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it i...

A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and s...

A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism.I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a v...

In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a d...

This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. Addressing a range of linguistic and cultural topi...

Explor[es] the underlying history and psychology of public discourse . . . should be required reading for politicians and public advocates. Real Ch...

This volume focuses on multimodality in various communicative settings, with special attention to how non-verbal elements reinforce and add meaning...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...

Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provi...