Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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

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

Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign.

This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature.

The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics.

This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues.

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of 'enough'.

The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children's novels.

This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing.

This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales.

This book is to date the first monograph-length study of the popular American political TV series House of Cards.

This book explores how transformations and translations shape musical meanings, developments and the perception of music across cultures.

This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters.

How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to.

Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media.

Listening in a second language is challenge for students and teachers alike.

Specialised translation has received very little attention from academic researchers, but in fact accounts for the bulk of professional translation on a global scale and is taught in a growing number of university-level translation programmes.

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People's Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education.

The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents.

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation.

This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years.

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe.

In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as 'the disnarrated' - events that do not happen but which are referred to - across three genres of texts: personal narratives; news stories; and fiction (literary and film).

This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.

This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings.

This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings.

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies.

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction.

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space.

What is a dialect?

How did the English language change from the Old to the Early Modern period?

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness.

This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness.

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature?

Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies.

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory.

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London.

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television.

Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments.

This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada.

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development.

Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups.

This book explores speakers' intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic - which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic.

This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context.

This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space.

Inspired by Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose, Mick Short's classic introduction to stylistics, Language and Style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics and encompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline.