Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This book synthesizes the author's work (1980s-2015) on the logical expressive power of natural language. It extends the tools and concepts of mode...

Over the last decade, research in semantics and pragmatics has started to increasingly incorporate new experimental methods from cognitive psycholo...

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapr...

The brain is a complicated and intricately woven structure relative to other body tissues. It is the ultimate parallel processing system, but never...

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interf...

Cohesive Profiling provides one of the first linguistic descriptions of blog discourse, focusing on the cohesive relations which enable users to co...

Meaning, the complex phenomenon of individuation and the definition of identity are the core theme of this work. Grounded on a theoretical framewor...

This volume contributes to the latest trends in discourse studies by presenting a Hallidayan corpus-driven critical linguistic analysis. The result...

Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of fo...

Are dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but not to be taken too seriously? Is there any ...

This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' th...

This book is an advanced introduction to semantics that presents this crucial component of human language through the lens of the 'Meaning-Text' th...

This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains bo...

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscou...

Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upo...

The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...