Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation foc...

The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoi...

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk...

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is explo...

Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the worlds known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region i...

Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creat...

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writin...

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus o...

This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, ...

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offe...

This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups are conceptualized as communicat...

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an int...

This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on c...

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness brings together the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and second language experts ...

This volume illustrates the process of conducting interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research into the relationship between patient language use and...

Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance wit...

This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception ...

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient ...

This book deals with the construction of the other in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and ...

The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to conscious...

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. T...

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression a...

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the diffe...

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To th...

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of danger cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cul...

Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable ...

The present volume is dedicated to the phenomenon of pragmaticalization in the context of the theory of grammaticalization. While, in recent decade...

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

Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Re...

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automat...

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automat...

Drawing from rich, naturally occurring language data and synthesizing insights from the fields of interpersonal pragmatics and Chinese interpersona...

This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, an...

This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, an...

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of emergent metalepsis that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events,...

The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach argues that in view of their omnipresence in human thinking and action,...

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. U...

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. U...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...