Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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

This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.

This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.

Introducing a range of new methods and insights for analysing discourse-pragmatic variation and change, this volume aims to inform future studies in the field.

Introducing a range of new methods and insights for analysing discourse-pragmatic variation and change, this volume aims to inform future studies in the field.

The first linguistics-based textbook on conversation analysis, illuminating the universals of interaction across a rich array of languages.

The first linguistics-based textbook on conversation analysis, illuminating the universals of interaction across a rich array of languages.

This comprehensive Handbook presents an interdisciplinary overview of formal semantics, with contributions from leading scholars.

This comprehensive Handbook presents an interdisciplinary overview of formal semantics, with contributions from leading scholars.

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

An exploration of how ''well'', ''I mean'', ''just'', ''sort of'', ''like'' and ''you know'' are used in contemporary British English.

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

An exploration of how ''well'', ''I mean'', ''just'', ''sort of'', ''like'' and ''you know'' are used in contemporary British English.

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language.

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language.

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets.

An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.

Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets.

An accessible guide to the linguistic semantics of adjectives, adverbs, gradability, vagueness, comparatives, and modification more generally.

Addresses central questions concerning conditionals by combining the methods of formal epistemology with those of cognitive psychology.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

This work explores the lexical richness of over 100 world languages and proposes solutions for instances of imperfect equivalence between them.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

This work explores the lexical richness of over 100 world languages and proposes solutions for instances of imperfect equivalence between them.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

A comprehensive account of face-to-face interactions in commercial and non-commercial service encounter settings.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other''s actions.

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.