Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we...

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (we). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the...

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in add...

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Sinc...

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by partic...

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different lan...

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are use...

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labellin...

Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twi...

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ''long'' nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth ...

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For ex...