Semantics & Pragmatics

This collection introduces an innovative micro-analytical approach to interaction management in remote interpreting, offering new insights into our...

This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspe...

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as...

Welche sprachlichen Merkmale beeinflussen die Komplexität von Texten und welche Relation besteht zwischen linguistischer Textkomplexität und Textv...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicat...

Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen zwischen Wortbildungen als morphologische Konstruktionen einerseits und geschriebenen wie gesprochenen Text...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself fr...

In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie,...

This edited book addresses current trends in digital discourse analysis. The central theme of the volume is the notion of digital experiences; in o...

An exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental researchA central goal of pragmatics is to identif...

If you are an English language learner meeting stylistics for the first time, this textbook will familiarize you with the basic terms and key conce...

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the d...

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolans pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing p...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creativ...

The Language of Hallyu will re-examine the language of the Korean Wave by looking at popular K-content. In doing so, it will expose the meanings th...

This volume covers the field of linguistic (im)politeness in a particular mediated, customer-oriented setting. It is the first book to do so across...

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship betwe...

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the pop...

Dieses Buch bietet eine praktische Anleitung zur Analyse der Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch, wie es in Alltagsgesprächen verwendet wird (talk-in-i...

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