Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

These short pieces demonstrate the range of ways discourse analysts can respond to a global health crisis.

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

A comprehensive account of communication as a social, biological, and neurological force, with examples drawn from everyday conversation.

A comprehensive account of communication as a social, biological, and neurological force, with examples drawn from everyday conversation.

These short pieces demonstrate the range of ways discourse analysts can respond to a global health crisis.

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.

Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.

Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.

Written by leading experts in the field, this Handbook provides a systematic, cutting-edge introduction to the field of sociopragmatics.

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.

Written by leading experts in the field, this Handbook provides a systematic, cutting-edge introduction to the field of sociopragmatics.

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

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

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.