Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Current semantic fieldwork research has shown that the study of modality cannot be conducted via translation alone, yet much of what we know about ...

This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semanti...

Cartoons, as a form of humour and entertainment, are a social product which are revealing of different social and political practices that prevail ...

The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point...

In recent decades, corpus linguistics has experienced tremendous development in the Hispanic world, along two opposite but complementary approaches...

This collection extends the discourse on systems within the field of rhetoric and composition by drawing connections among the administrative work ...

Taste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in language. Recently, an increasing body of research i...

Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this v...

This book explores Margaret Atwoods distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive...

Basic Writing in the 21st Century is a comprehensive, cutting-edge survey of basic writing, developmental writing, and literacy studies. Edited by ...

This multilingual volume delves into multimodal literacy within educational contexts, exploring its significance across diverse cultural settings. ...

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These chil...

This book examines public, political and media discourse in the context of failed states using Lebanon, a country torn by wars and political-financ...

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Convers...

Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions written by educators...

The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary t...

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Convers...

In this book, Nydia Flores-Ferrán offers a comprehensive examination of linguistic intensification in Spanish and English communication. Flores-Fer...

While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snap...

In this book, Amos Kiewe explores the story of the 1824 Presidential election, when the House of Representatives elected the president after no can...

Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy roo...

Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the mas...

Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of socio...

The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in teaching written skills between rhetoric/composition an...

Rhetoric and Resilience explores discourse produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. ...

This book examines how identities are constructed in digital, multimodal discourse, and how these identities (gender, age, race, ethnicity, profess...

For courses in Developmental Reading. Builds on the skills for college reading success Bridging the Gap encourages students to build o...

Storytelling as a cultural practice permeates all phases and areas of human life and opens up possible worlds. From their earliest days, children g...

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they ne...