Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.

This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices fro...

This book covers the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in semantics that students in linguistics and language studies will encounter. Key Ter...

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breast...

Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be...

This book is strongly related to two essential features of human life: migratory movements and metaphors. Migratory movements can be undoubtedly de...

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Ashers (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the the...

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In real...

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to ...

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both...

The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology draws on nearly 7,000 published MLB game summaries to explore the contours of ba...

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the pres...

This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better Seth Godin, author of ...

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language e...

Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive t...

The concept of negative concord refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You aint seen nothing yet. This bo...

The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heighte...

It has traditionally been accepted that one cannot derive how the world ought to be from the way the world is. The discipline of bioethics endeavor...

Rhetoric and Technical Communication in HOPE VI presents a rhetorical analysis of key documents and technical writing associated with the HOPE VI, ...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduc...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduc...

For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has bee...

Examining how diverse social identities are constructed in digital communication in China, this edited collection provides a multidimensional explo...

Discourse on translation, at once a term referring to any text (works of translation included) that expresses the authors views, ideas and theoriza...

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and liter...

Advances in Critical Discourse Studies collects ground-breaking scholarship and cutting-edge research which reflects significant shifts in Critical...

This book explores the interplay between various semiotic modes in multimodal texts and the ways in which they are employed to express cultural tra...

Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational context...

The contemporary Dutch historical theorist/philosopher Frank Ankersmit, an erstwhile advocate and promulgator of what has become known as the lingu...