Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the d...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific me...

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive lingui...

By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe ...

This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in linguistics. Specific topics discussed include ...

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse th...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

This collection showcases the diversity and disciplinary breadth of small stories research, highlighting the growing critical mass of scholarship o...

Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific CommunicationRespondin...

Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Genre Studies gathers major works that have contributed to the recent rhetorical reconceptualization of genre. A live...

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of diffe...

Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centre...

In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawi...

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled Thirty Years of Talk. For 30 years, Okano ...

Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-repr...

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a li...

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse ...

In this monograph, Felicity Rash examines German colonialist texts through the lens of linguistics, using multiple analytic approaches in order to ...

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshires influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatic...

Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of pro and con' where the aim is to persuad...

This book seeks to extend research on framing beyond linguistic and cognitive perspectives by examining framing in visual and multimodal texts and ...

Victoria Welby (18371912) dedicated her research to the relationship between signs and values. She exchanged ideas with important exponents of the ...

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and c...

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor....