Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

A new perspective on how far law''s power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.

Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.

A revealing account of politeness in conversation, focusing on the vital role it plays in maintaining class differences.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

Written by a team of experts, this handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics.

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.

This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.

Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

A lively, up-to-date and compact introduction to semantics, accessible to those with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

A lively, up-to-date and compact introduction to semantics, accessible to those with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

Explores the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, combining mainstream ideas from minimalist syntax and formal semantics.

Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

This book argues that ideophones provide the ''missing link'' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.

An advanced-level introductory textbook taking a critical, practical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures.

An advanced-level introductory textbook taking a critical, practical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures.

Illuminates the relationships between Lucilius'' satires and the Roman world in which he wrote, by combining linguistic and literary approaches.

In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse.

This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure.

In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse.

This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure.

Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.

Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this study investigates how narrators and recipients cooperate when telling stories.

Vyvyan Evans focuses on the linguistic and conceptual resources we make use of when we fix events in time.

Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this study investigates how narrators and recipients cooperate when telling stories.

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

Bringing together a global team, this stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics.

Este libro reúne trabajos que tienen el fin de estudiar los mecanismos de producción, circulación y consumo de ciertos fenómenos actuales de "retoma" discursiva, se centran teórica y/o analíticamente en distintos discursos mediáticos e hipermediáticos.

Bringing together a global team, this stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics.

Sheng- Hsun Lee develops a new way of understanding public health crisis communication through the lens of multimodal classification.

This book provides an accessible and original account of null subject phenomena, and encompasses the most recent findings and developments.

This book provides an accessible and original account of null subject phenomena, and encompasses the most recent findings and developments.

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through the fascinating area of politeness.

This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through the fascinating area of politeness.

Here, prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H.

Here, prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H.

The definitive introduction to relevance theory, starting from the basics and covering all its key ideas.

William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: life and death.