Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The period between the 1960s and 1970s is easily one of the most controversial in American history. Examining the liberal movements of the era as w...

Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consum...

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the s...

The longevity of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas, suggests that it is possible for a social change organization to sim...

This volume examines subordinate wh-clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh-word seems to deviate fro...

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the ...

The papers compiled in the present volume reflect the key theme of the most recent Duo Colloquium sessions contextuality. The psychological notion...

Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old ver...

Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearer...

Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between ...

Irony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It survey...

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, alon...

Legal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulat...

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language w...

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common language for communication between speakers whose first ...

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic op...

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages ...

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of...

Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an inter...