Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critics position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning th...

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a ...

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ''clusivity'' as an overarching...

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, with...

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and i...

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax ...

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exi...

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-i...

It seems to be a truism that todays news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago....

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for an...

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology. While legal concepts frame legal knowledge and take center st...

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of servic...

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contr...

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contempo...

This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics - the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a ...

Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselve...

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

The books we''ve read, the films we''ve seen, the stories we''ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven''t - form an integral part of ou...

Engagement has turned essential in todays communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audienc...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

The challenges of integrating and citing sources in academic work have expanded in scope and complexity in the digital age, but the basic principle...

The challenges of integrating and citing sources in academic work have expanded in scope and complexity in the digital age, but the basic principle...

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee''''s intellect...

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyces Ulysses. In its hypot...