Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use.

Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face describes the process and products of face-to-face argument.

Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face describes the process and products of face-to-face argument.

The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events.

The authors present a social linguistic/social interactional approach to the discourse analysis of classroom language and literacy events.

The qualitative analysis of naturally occurring discourse in neurogenic communication disorders, specifically in dementia studies, has experienced recent burgeoning interest from wide-ranging disciplines.

The qualitative analysis of naturally occurring discourse in neurogenic communication disorders, specifically in dementia studies, has experienced recent burgeoning interest from wide-ranging disciplines.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling.

This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling.

Cultures in Conversation introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which various cultural orientations are operating.

Cultures in Conversation introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which various cultural orientations are operating.

This study offers a ckomprehensive new interpretation of one of Plato's dialogues, the Cratylus.

First Published in 2006.

First Published in 2006.

This special issue focuses on the difficult problem of how observers and researchers can make sense of how collaborating participants develop a shared understanding both of their task and their own participation in it.

This special issue focuses on the difficult problem of how observers and researchers can make sense of how collaborating participants develop a shared understanding both of their task and their own participation in it.

The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht, Holland.

The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht, Holland.

This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production.

This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production.

Over the last several decades, the study of discourse processes has moved from the complementary efforts characteristic of multidisciplinary research, to the explicitly integrative focus of interdisciplinary research.

Over the last several decades, the study of discourse processes has moved from the complementary efforts characteristic of multidisciplinary research, to the explicitly integrative focus of interdisciplinary research.

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.

This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings.

This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings.

The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology.

The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology.

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning.

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning.

This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contexts of literacy.

This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contexts of literacy.

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.

First Published in 1996.

First Published in 1996.

This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship.

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.

The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field.

Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology.

Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology.

Offering a direct sightline into communication theory, Explaining Communication provides in-depth discussions of communication theories by some of the foremost scholars working in communication today.

Offering a direct sightline into communication theory, Explaining Communication provides in-depth discussions of communication theories by some of the foremost scholars working in communication today.

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and processing.

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and processing.

This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq.

This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq.

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a range of theoretical and empirical concerns.