Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK.

First published 1984.

First published 1984.

First published in 2009.

First published in 2009.

First published in 1945.

First published in 1945.

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present.

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present.

First published in 1979.

First published in 1979.

This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity construction in social media.

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative?

This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative?

Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them is the first introductory text organized around the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they are systematically addressed by analysts of different empirical persuasions, thereby cultivating a principled understanding of the interdisciplinary field of discourse analysis.

Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them is the first introductory text organized around the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they are systematically addressed by analysts of different empirical persuasions, thereby cultivating a principled understanding of the interdisciplinary field of discourse analysis.

Chinese and English are the world's largest languages, and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years.

Chinese and English are the world's largest languages, and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years.

Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives.

Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives.

This volume serves as a critical examination of the discourses at play in the higher education system and the ways in which these discourses underpin the transmission of neoliberal values in 21st century universities.

This volume serves as a critical examination of the discourses at play in the higher education system and the ways in which these discourses underpin the transmission of neoliberal values in 21st century universities.

A critical investigation into how eugenic logics quietly animated twentieth century cancer rhetoric, reshaping cultural narratives of health, risk, and human worth.

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian leaders.

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian leaders.

How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized?

How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized?

Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse.

Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse.

The sound shape of words carries meaning for its users and also bears a range of social and interactional functions.

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

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

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

The book is an investigation of the semantics of counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective.

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

The book is an investigation of the semantics of counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective.

Integrated practice and discovery problems in various languages encourage students to think analytically and scientifically about language.

Integrated practice and discovery problems in various languages encourage students to think analytically and scientifically about language.

This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.

This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.

This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

A relevance-theoretic account of reference, with a focus on its role in creating stylistic, attitudinal and emotional effects.

Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures.

English Nouns explores the mechanisms by which English nominalizations come to have a variety of readings depending on their syntactic context.