Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

History and current affairs show that words matter - and change - because they are woven into our socio-political lives.

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

Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking.

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

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

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

This Element provides a unique overview of the academic research and political legislation concerning ''Islamic terrorism'' in Europe.

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

History and current affairs show that words matter - and change - because they are woven into our socio-political lives.

With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

A critical survey of key issues in the analysis of propositional attitude reports, a central topic in natural language semantics.

A critical survey of key issues in the analysis of propositional attitude reports, a central topic in natural language semantics.

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects.

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects.

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

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.

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.

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

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