Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary.

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces.

Handbook on semantic relations between words, and different approaches to how these are mentally represented.

This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood.

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself.

By reconceptualizing successful communication in a foreign language as an enjoyable and uplifting experience, this volume moves beyond a focus on grammatical accuracy and fluency to foreground the ways in which foreign language learners can be encouraged to build on previous achievements and communicative successes in the target language and so develop confidence, commitment and cross-cultural relational ability.

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the framework of Alternative Semantics.

This book applies theory and research findings to the design of English for Academic Purposes courses.

In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning.

Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way.

The first overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics, with chapters on key concepts and research directions.

This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct.

This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects.

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.

An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis.

This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with "e;portrayed stories.

The Discourse of Public Participation Media takes a fresh look at what 'ordinary' people are doing on air - what they say, and how and where they get to say it.

This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom.

This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6-10 1981.

Dieses Buch betont, dass in der Wissenschaft trotz Einigkeit uber die Rolle der Suffizienz als Nachhaltigkeitsleitprinzip kein Konsens uber ihren genauen Beitrag zum Wandel besteht.

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines.

What is suicide?

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them.

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA.

Together with the first volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Theoretical developments,"e; this book collects contributions that represent the state of the art on the interconnection between pragmatics and philosophy.

Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction.

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.

Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema's successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages.

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings?