Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wi...

We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of...

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics c...

HateSpeak in Contemporary Arabic Discourse fills in an obvious gap in discourse studies on Arabic. After a detailed semantic and metaphorical accou...

Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, pr...

This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascina...

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of inter...

This volume looks at the growing interest of different specialists in the problems associated with political discourse, in general, and parliamenta...

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Mapping Parameters of Meaning, an event organized by the GReG (Groupe...

Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications provides new insights into the complex area of discourse interpretation in a wide range of di...

This book explores the fascinating role that language plays in the construction of non-verbal objects by mapping out the ontological meaning of the...

The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disci...

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical studies carried out b...

The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters coll...

In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and ...

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in Eng...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have app...

Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that unders...