Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselve...

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ''''moral turn'''' in (im)politeness studies. This volume, ...

The books we''ve read, the films we''ve seen, the stories we''ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven''t - form an integral part of ou...

Engagement has turned essential in todays communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audienc...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

The challenges of integrating and citing sources in academic work have expanded in scope and complexity in the digital age, but the basic principle...

The challenges of integrating and citing sources in academic work have expanded in scope and complexity in the digital age, but the basic principle...

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee''''s intellect...

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyces Ulysses. In its hypot...

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact,...

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodologic...

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily...

Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying v...

Love it or hate it, the five-paragraph essay is perhaps the most frequently taught form of writing in classrooms of yesterday and today. But have y...

Lacan in Public argues that Lacan''s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is in fact the cen...

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been conside...

American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhan...

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together t...

Interaction is a prominent part of our everyday life and experience; daily reality is constructed within the interactions that individuals establis...