Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources?

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions.

Political Correctness Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set.

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis.

Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis.

Political Correctness Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set.

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics.

An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and helps students in analysing written texts.

This new title in the popular 'Flash' series gets straight to the key facts of linguistics.

For anyone approaching Discourse Analysis for the first time, theory means little when it is not related to actual knowledge and experience of language in use.

This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse analysis (CDA).

At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer.

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Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation.

The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception.

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case.

A legal judgment is first and foremost a story, a narrative of facts about the parties to the case.

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.

Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself.

Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning.

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics.

Communicating Conflict brings together a collection of multilingual case studies drawn from the international media.

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In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach.

In recent times, Chick Lit has risen to a certain level of prominence.

Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness.

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.

Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties.

Corpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right, but little attention has been given to the theoretical perspectives from which the subject can be approached.

Contemporary Stylistics presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the integrated study of language and literature.

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language in literature and in other types of text.

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.

Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning.

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.

Gender, Language and New Literacy presents cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media.

This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures.