Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with...

Focusing on Slavic languages, Danko ipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing researc...

Designed to be of use to all levels of educators working with students from high school to post-graduate this book addresses the problems and conce...

Using W. Von Wartburg''s critical bibliography of dialect and patois as a key reference, this work brings together examples of words derived from L...

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert styles. Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen...

This book presents the onomasiological approach to word formation and applies it to neoclassical formations, using data taken from English and Russ...

Speech Act Theory: A Univen Study was undertaken to investigate the pragmatic value of the utterances of selected students at the University of Ven...

Introducing Discourse Analysis in Class is a practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates in linguistics degrees or any reader w...

Co-authored by an honors English professor and an award-winning high-school AP teacher, Advancing Rhetoric: Critical Thinking and Writing for the A...

Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branc...

Disparities exist in the way current linguistic research approaches prepositions, both in terms of definition and classification. Despite an abunda...