Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

The Declaration of Independence is usually celebrated as a radical document that inspired revolution in the English colonies, in France, and elsewh...

Ce volume reunit 17 articles selectionnes a l''issue du colloque La dia-variation en francais actuel. Des corpus aux ouvrages de reference (diction...

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes f...

Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining disco...

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implication...

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

Explore the exciting research where semantics meets morphology, syntax and pragmatics. In this book, leading researchers use in-depth articles to e...

The 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning stud...

Recontextualized Knowledge aims to analyze the communicative situations involved in the popularization of scientific knowledge: their settings, aud...

This book takes on critical problems in current Macedonistics, with a special emphasis on text linguistics and linguistics of discourse. It focuses...

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently sim...

The aim of this volume is to look into how academic identity is discoursally constructed in CMC (computer-mediated communication), using the exampl...

Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major i...