Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Have you ever wondered how you can find out more about a word: Where did it come from?

Gramatica del discurso en espanol aborda la sintaxis utilizada en las comunicaciones orales, escritas o digitales en espanol desde una perspectiva textual, basandose en un amplio conjunto de investigaciones recientes y avanzadas sobre el discurso para ofrecer un analisis profundo, detallado y practico.

Eva Ng's groundbreaking work delves into post-colonial Hong Kong courtrooms, where jury service is exclusive to well-educated individuals deemed capable of understanding English proceedings.

Eva Ng's groundbreaking work delves into post-colonial Hong Kong courtrooms, where jury service is exclusive to well-educated individuals deemed capable of understanding English proceedings.

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Gramatica del discurso en espanol aborda la sintaxis utilizada en las comunicaciones orales, escritas o digitales en espanol desde una perspectiva textual, basandose en un amplio conjunto de investigaciones recientes y avanzadas sobre el discurso para ofrecer un analisis profundo, detallado y practico.

The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together.

This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, which encompasses research on both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the evolution of language.

This volume investigates the methods and techniques used to investigate expressivity, a term used to describe linguistic phenomena that serve an expressive function and deliver sensory information about an event, entity, or other culturally-determined category through a set of grammatical resources.

There are increasing opportunities to consider the application of semantic technologies for business information systems.

Objects and Attitudes develops a radically novel semantics of attitude reports, modal sentences, and quotation based on an ontology of attitudinal, modal, and phatic objects, entities such as claims, thoughts, intentions, desires, requests, utterances, as well as needs, obligations, permissions, offers, and abilities.

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What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c.

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms transitivity, valency, and voice.

This book presents an analysis of argument indexation, the process by which arguments in a clause are coindexed with grammatical markers that bear their features.

Objects and Attitudes develops a radically novel semantics of attitude reports, modal sentences, and quotation based on an ontology of attitudinal, modal, and phatic objects, entities such as claims, thoughts, intentions, desires, requests, utterances, as well as needs, obligations, permissions, offers, and abilities.

This is the first book to collect research on game-theoretic tools in the analysis of language with particular reference to semantics and pragmatics.

This fourth volume in the Studies in Pragmatics (SIP) series is a fittingly solid, well-illustrated and theoretical account of Mitigation (as a form of Politeness).

It's a platitude that words can harm.

Parentheticals, it is fair to say, are everywhere, and, as can easily be shown, they come in a huge variety of flavors.

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Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century.

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century.

This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia.

What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c.

It's a platitude that words can harm.

Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Analyzing Narrative Online: Affordances and Practices offers a comprehensive introduction to exploring narratives in fast-evolving social media spaces such as Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

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Im ausgehenden 19.

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.

Online-Diskurse umfassen im Kommunikationsraum Internet alle kommunikativen Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Ereignisse, auf ihre Akteure und auf thematische Schwerpunkte.

Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication.

Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable.

Empirische und methodische Entscheidungen stellen fur die Sprachforschung anhaltende Herausforderungen dar, die im Hinblick auf das jeweilige Erkenntnisinteresse abzuwagen sind.

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Das Buch wendet sich an Ubersetzer und Ubersetzungswissenschaftler, die mit der deutschen Sprache als Mutter- oder Fremdsprache arbeiten, um in klarer Sprache die Erkenntnisse der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft in die Translationswissenschaft einzubringen.

The volume, which is a highly recommended reading for translators, translation scholars and particularly translator educators, displays an impressive array of statements on current translator education.

This study presents a collection of papers by a variety of scholars engaged in the most thought-provoking and salient problems in various areas of linguistics.

Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication.

Online-Diskurse umfassen im Kommunikationsraum Internet alle kommunikativen Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Ereignisse, auf ihre Akteure und auf thematische Schwerpunkte.

The book offers a systematic study of selected aesthetic and moral emotions, such as beauty, admiration, disgust, anger, guilt, and the feeling of (in)justice.

Die Studie analysiert Fernsehnachrichten in offentlich-rechtlichen Sendeanstalten in Deutschland und Polen.

Le present ouvrage se presente comme une occasion de faire dialoguer les recherches en linguistique d'une part, et les etudes sur l'argumentation de l'autre.

Cet ouvrage fait suite a un premier volume (publie en 2013) consacre a la description de plusieurs operateurs discursifs - entites linguistiques dont l'emploi a pour effet de mettre en place une strategie discursive specifique.

Die Autorin untersucht wesentliche Fragestellungen, die durch den Ausschluss syntagmatischer Verbindungen aus der Wortbildung durch eine formal motivierte Verlagerung in die Syntax offengelassen werden.