Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact,...

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodologic...

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily...

Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying v...

Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have y...

Lacan in Public argues that Lacan''s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is in fact the cen...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together t...

Interaction is a prominent part of our everyday life and experience; daily reality is constructed within the interactions that individuals establis...

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with...

Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko ipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing researc...

Designed to be of use to all levels of educators working with students from high school to post-graduate this book addresses the problems and conce...

Using W. Von Wartburg''s critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from L...

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert styles. Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen...

This book presents the onomasiological approach to word formation and applies it to neoclassical formations, using data taken from English and Russ...

Speech Act Theory: A Univen Study was undertaken to investigate the pragmatic value of the utterances of selected students at the University of Ven...

Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class is a practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates in linguistics degrees or any reader w...

Co-authored by an honors English professor and an award-winning high-school AP teacher, Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the A...

Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branc...

Disparities exist in the way current linguistic research approaches prepositions, both in terms of definition and classification. Despite an abunda...