Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft aufgeb...

In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie,...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of ...

Obwohl die Konstruktionsgrammatik die semantischen Eigenschaften von grammatischen Konstruktionen in den Fokus rückt, ist bislang kein umfassender ...

In the period between 1880 and 1938, public speaking saw a remarkable rise in popularity among German-language writers. This study offers the first...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die syntaktische und semantische Struktur deklarativer und interrogativer Satztypen des Deutschen. Der erarbeitet...

Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matt...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design ...

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correct...

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or describ...

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is t...

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic...

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms. Examining the interactions between studen...