Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse,...

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse,...

News media and popular culture in the United States have produced a conventional narrative of the outcomes of sexual abuse: someone perpetrates sex...

As teaching practices adapt to changing technologies, budgetary constraints, new student populations, and changing employment practices, writing pr...

La problematique de l''interpretation, entendue comme un processus dynamique de la lecture ou comme une reception creative de la production verbale...

This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Span...

This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphol...

A biography of two troublesome words. Isn''t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I''m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of...

In Transforming Ethos Rosanne Carlo synthesizes philosophy, rhetorical theory, and composition theory to clarify the role of ethos and its potentia...

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wi...

Combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws on a range of spoken and written data collected from a variety of contexts. It...