Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives aims to analyse names and the act of naming from an intercultural perspective, both synchro...

In our post-truth world, tapping into peoples emotions has proved far more effective than rational argument and, as Philip Seargeant argues in thi...

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate. In this b...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

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

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to...

Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural langua...

Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the ...

This is a study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English. Pragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describ...

This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective...

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the worlds top fore...

This new translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle seri...

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South Afr...

Today it is accepted that philosophical hermeneutics has become an important research paradigm within the social sciences, including social psychol...

The Discourse of Public Participation Media takes a fresh look at what ordinary people are doing on air what they say, and how and where they get ...

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do wit...

Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in ...

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-...

Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates p...