Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This engaging text explores how everyday talk--the ordinary kinds of communicating that people do in schools, workplaces, and among family and frie...

Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on just one end of th...

Language is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in...

I'm not a racist, but You look good, for your age She was asking for it You're crazy That's so gay Have you ever wondered why certain language has ...

An accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures, a key topic in all frameworks of pragmatics. Starting with a definition of the various typ...

The two-volume set LNAI 13495 and LNAI 13496, constitute the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLS...

Threatening is among the less pleasant things we do with words, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role i...

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analys...

In the seven years following the publication of the much-lauded major work, Conversation Analysis, a number of exciting developments in field have ...

When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first i...

Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate ...

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English as (a child). It focuses on the distribut...

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary...

Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical is...

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which ...

Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it i...