Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

Die Studie geht der Frage nach, wie „nationale Identität“ im Zeitraum der so genannten Berliner Republik als epistemische Größe sprachlich in Erscheinung tritt.

WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs.

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Drawing from rich, naturally occurring language data and synthesizing insights from the fields of interpersonal pragmatics and Chinese interpersonal communication, this book presents a compelling exploration of the management of negative emotions through an interpersonal pragmatics lens.

A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studiesSpeaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices.

While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying.

Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize.

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point.

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.

This volume grew out of a symposium on discourse, tools, and instructional design at Vanderbilt University in 1995 that brought together a small international group to grapple with issues of communicating, symbolizing, modeling, and mathematizing, particularly as these issues relate to learning in the classroom.

This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

Obwohl Unverbindlichkeit von Politikern und Politikerinnen ein z.

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as :(i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory.

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like 'type' and 'sort'.

First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century.

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

Editors and contributors pursue the ambitious goal of including within WAC theory, research, and practice the differing perspectives, educational experiences, and voices of second-language writers.

This book explores the language of judges.

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan's pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines.

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook is a one-stop resource for today''s research and the many theoretical debates.

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L.

First published in 1994.

This collection of critical essays investigates the intersections of the global and local in literature and language.

This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse.

This collection brings together established and exciting new voices to shed light on the language of and about sex work, offering an empirically nuanced understanding of commercial sex through language.