Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. Stephen Pihlaja investigates how several prominent soci...

A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur perso...

The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structure...

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic d...

How can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organiz...

Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Empire is a vital exploration of how Britains colonial lega...

This book presents the essential approaches that you need to know when you start doing discourse analysis for the first time. Over 11 chapters, Dis...

Now in paperback and with a new Afterword offering insights into the events of 2020 and early 2021, including the pandemic, global protests, racial...

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little if any discou...

From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political sci...

What explains the triumph of capitalism? Why do people so often respond positively to discussions favoring it while shutting down arguments against...

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries. The rhetoric of food is more than just words about ...

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions...

Romantic letters are central to understanding same-sex romantic relationships from the past, with debates about so-called romantic friendship turni...

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...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and del...

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

An indispensable text--now revised and expanded for the digital age--this volume showcases some of the most important work by contemporary rhetoric...

Rhetoric in European and World Culture traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present. Here,...

This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of com...

Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Pli...

Discourse can be understood as the sum of linguistic usages and metalinguistic manners about a social practice. It examines language-in-use with th...