Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication.

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

Introduces the new field of epistemic discourse analysis and uses a wide range of examples to illustrate the theory.

These essays examine the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences.

Using a wide range of examples, this book examines the discourse of professional writing and its important role in society.

This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.

Using a wide range of examples, this book examines the discourse of professional writing and its important role in society.

Introduces the new field of epistemic discourse analysis and uses a wide range of examples to illustrate the theory.

An engaging overview of imperatives and a close examination of how different theoretical traditions have tried to explain them.

This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

An engaging overview of imperatives and a close examination of how different theoretical traditions have tried to explain them.

This accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of stylistics encompasses both traditional textual analysis and recent innovations.

This accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of stylistics encompasses both traditional textual analysis and recent innovations.

This book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes.

This book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes.

A study of noun phrases in English, looking at how we produce and understand them.

A summary, critique and comparison of the most important theories on how metaphors are used and understood.

A state-of-the art review of conversational repair, with contributions from internationally recognized leaders in the field of conversation analysis.

A summary, critique and comparison of the most important theories on how metaphors are used and understood.

A state-of-the art review of conversational repair, with contributions from internationally recognized leaders in the field of conversation analysis.

This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.

This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

Introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour.

This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

Introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour.

This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

Enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.

Enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

The first book to comprehensively present the methodological problems associated with linguistic data and evidence.

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

An investigation of antonyms in English, offering a model of how we mentally organize concepts and perceive contrasts between them.

The first book to comprehensively present the methodological problems associated with linguistic data and evidence.

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

An investigation of antonyms in English, offering a model of how we mentally organize concepts and perceive contrasts between them.

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook is a one-stop resource for today''s research and the many theoretical debates.

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook is a one-stop resource for today''s research and the many theoretical debates.

The first general overview of narrative analysis from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language.

The first general overview of narrative analysis from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language.

This book surveys a wide variety of polarity items, both negative and positive, commonly found in English and other languages.

This book surveys a wide variety of polarity items, both negative and positive, commonly found in English and other languages.