Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

This book includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gen...

Ellipsen stellen eine sprachliche Form dar, die wiederkehrend und mit erkennbaren ästhetischen Funktionen in literarischen Texten vorzufinden ist. ...

The notion of controversy space is the key element of the new model of scientific and philosophical change introduced in this book. Devised as an a...

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond th...

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding ...

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry,...

This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The ...

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it pre...

Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative m...

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is i...

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters ...

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisci...

Conversation Analysis (CA) is one of the predominant methods for the detailed study of human social interaction. Bringing together thirty-four chap...

In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H. van Eemeren brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argument...

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologie...

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, inter...

Since the general tendencies of present-day English focus more on idiomatic usage, it seems to be worth paying attention to the role phraseological...

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospita...

The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involvi...

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three c...

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in var...

This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusin...

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now sug...

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmati...

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, Ame...

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from...

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patt...

How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the peo...

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the st...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of argumentation in the health care domain. Argumentation and Health is a collection...

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analy...

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present v...

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are ...

The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that co...

Chinas opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and c...

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this st...

This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fif...

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical stu...

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of...

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, l...

Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as d...

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic metho...

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, ...

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional com...