Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "e;appliability"e; of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language.

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "e;appliability"e; of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language.

Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for studying and employing group communication in action, many research practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize them to their maximum benefit.

Despite the fact that focus groups are an ideal research tool for studying and employing group communication in action, many research practitioners and scholars have missed the opportunity to utilize them to their maximum benefit.

Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception and raises awareness of the importance of understanding language use and perception in context in order to avoid intercultural communication misunderstandings.

Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception and raises awareness of the importance of understanding language use and perception in context in order to avoid intercultural communication misunderstandings.

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions.

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions.

This book explores the discursive construction of national identities in diplomatic political discourse, focusing on translation's pivotal role.

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

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

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.

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

This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted.

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 book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

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 examines reports that are written by reviewers of submissions to a peer-reviewed journal.

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?