Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.

Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses elasticity in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective.

This exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world places the renaissance revival of letters within a global context.

This exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world places the renaissance revival of letters within a global context.

This Element proposes a ludic view of translation, focusing on the playful, experimental, and experiential aspects of literary translation.

An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.

Distinguishing features of interdisciplinary academic writing traced by exploring epistemic differences in light of linguistic evidence.

Explores the relationship between two widely discussed topics in linguistics - universal grammar and iconicity.

Explores the relationship between two widely discussed topics in linguistics - universal grammar and iconicity.

This volume examines the second language pragmatic development of international learners of English inside and outside the classroom.

This volume examines the second language pragmatic development of international learners of English inside and outside the classroom.

An engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.

Distinguishing features of interdisciplinary academic writing traced by exploring epistemic differences in light of linguistic evidence.

The first overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics, with chapters on key concepts and research directions.

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

Pioneers an innovative framework for theorizing about meaning in natural language and the role of context in interpretation.

The first overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics, with chapters on key concepts and research directions.

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Why do certain words have the power to offend?

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Why do certain words have the power to offend?

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

With input from a team of scholars, this book brings together linguistics and philosophy, empowering new conversations in the process.

With input from a team of scholars, this book brings together linguistics and philosophy, empowering new conversations in the process.

Drawing on innovative research, the book reveals the wealth and breadth of the study of word-formation, both theoretically and empirically.

Explains the multimodal connections of text, image, space, body, sound and speech, in both old and new computer-mediated communication systems.

Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a novel theory of syntax, which analyzes grammar from a semantic perspective.

Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a novel theory of syntax, which analyzes grammar from a semantic perspective.

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

An inventory of present-day English dialect, slang and colloquialisms drawn from a prestigious nationwide survey.

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive and critical overview of theories of linguistic reference and meaning in the 20th century.

Explores and provides situational and linguistic descriptions of the full range of registers found on the searchable web.

Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.

The first volume to focus on the practices, processes, and uses of action ascription in social interaction in different languages.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

Explores how UK wealth inequality is discussed in newspapers, with a particular focus on changes over the past forty-five years.

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

Using a unified methodological and theoretical framework, this book compares interpersonal grammar systems across different languages.

Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity using the material of Slavic languages.

Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.

A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.