Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics.

A major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the painting of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.

Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with other collective entities and with the world at large.

What is semiotics?

Winner of the British Society of Criminology 'Criminology Book Prize 2012'


This book uses transcripts from real UK police interviews, investigating previously unexplored and under-explored areas of the process.

Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them.

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom examines the interactions between learners and teachers in the language classroom.

The topic of communication in elderly care is becoming ever more pressing, with an aging world population and burgeoning numbers of people needing care.

This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics.

The problem of definition has a long history and has engaged the minds of some of the most eminent thinkers in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle onwards.

'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting.

New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics.

An examination of developments in contemporary narrative, placing them in the context of wider social, cultural and technological trends, using a case-study approach.

It can be a challenge writing in a language that is not your native tongue.

Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse - narrator, interlocutor and character - to achieve specific goals.

This book both defines sports discourse, and provides an account of the different discourses that are utilized and come into play when the field of sport speaks.

This book offers a clearly written and comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of all linguistics and language studies courses.

Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge work in the field of discourse analysis.

Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties.

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to current and new issues in historical linguistics, while supplying an exhaustive and up-to-date coverage of sub-fields traditionally regarded as central to historical linguistics research.

Offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways

In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict.

Andrew Burn and David Parker outline how multi-modality theory can be used to analyze texts whicj employ multiple semiotic modes and media, in such a way that a balanced consideration is given to the characteristics of each mode, how they integrate, and how they distribute textual functions between them.

This book deals with speech representation in Greek adolescents' storytelling and investigates how members of different communities of practice present themselves and other characters as interactional protagonists through the stories they tell.

This book is about how genres affect the ways students understand and engage with their disciplines, offering a fresh approach to genre by using affordances as a key aspect in exploring the work of first year undergraduates who were given the task of reworking an essay by using a different genre.

"Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body" is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science.

An introduction to culturally determined aspects of communicating in British, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American societies, especially those that may influence effective communication with members of these societies or be the source of false perceptions/stereotypes of their behaviour.

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation.

This volume explores a number of themes of current interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres: the social and cultural context of academic writing; differences between the academic and non-academic text; the analysis of particular text types; variation within and across disciplines; and applications of theory in the teaching of writing.

Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research.

Professional Linguistics is an emergent area of study within applied linguistics, using discourse analysis to assist people working in professional domains.

CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts.

Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area ofresearch as traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologicallyorientated texts.

This book proposes the study of literary texts as a vital component of L2 linguistic and cultural knowledge.

Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.

This book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation of stylistic techniques in teaching other subjects.

The rhetorical practices involved with the dissemination of scientific discourse are shifting.

Facebook, in just a few years, has become one of the central tools people use to communicate with each other in everyday life.

Corpus Linguistics and The Study of Literature provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora.

Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies 'intelligently', in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed in language.

This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself.

How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives?

There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide.

It can be a challenge writing in a language that is not your native tongue.

The Discourse of Online Reviews is the first book to provide an account of the discursive, pragmatic and rhetorical features of this rapidly growing form of technologically-mediated communication.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics.