Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns?

The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense.

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The social and intellectual context of the material in the book of Proverbs has given rise to several proposals concerning the nature of the constituent compendia within the document as well as the function of the discourse as a whole.

When readers become victims of the murder mysteries they are immersed in, when superheroes embark on a quest to challenge their authors or when the fictional rock band Gorillaz flirt with Madonna during their performance, then metalepsis in popular culture occurs.

Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes.

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion.

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz.

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To join the recent debate on data problem in linguistics, this collection of papers provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (including historical, lexical, formal and experimental pragmatics).

Studies on the nature of quotation have become a topic of growing interest among linguists and philosophers of language.

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

This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan language.

This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness.

Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds.

The book explores the role of age in communication under consideration of various age groups, genres, cultures and languages, and demonstrates the growing potential of age-related research for linguistic and social analyses that is founded on a more comprehensive and systematic basis than has been practiced so far.

In view of the considerable number of recent publications devoted to various applications of Cognitive Linguistics, the book focusses on fields that have not been extensively dealt with within the CL framework.

Kollokationen sind häufig auftretende Wortverbindungen, deren Kombination semantisch motiviert ist (z.

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse.

Als „Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung“ werden Reanalyse-Vorgänge behandelt, bei denen sprachliche Einheiten auf der Skala der Konstruktionsebenen ‒ Phonologie, Morphologie, Lexik ‒ aufsteigen („Degrammatikalisierung“) und sich von synthetisch-intransparenten zu analytisch-transparanten Gebilden entwickeln („Delexikalisierung“) ‒ Prozesse also, die der „Grammatikalisierung“ und „Lexikalisierung“ entgegengerichtet sind.

Tropes are not only rhetorical means, which are used as a creative and / or persuasive linguistic means in poetry and public speech.

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich die Diskurslinguistik in der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft als neue Teildisziplin zur Analyse textübergreifender Muster fest etablieren können.

The book provides a descriptive account of the semantics of three grammatical areas in informal Welsh: inflections of finite verbs, perfect aspect, and progressive aspect.

This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought.

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar.

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory.

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In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning.

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