Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages.

Essays in Modern Stylistics, first published in 1981, is a collection of essays in the application of modern linguistic theory to the study of literature.

This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions.

This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions.

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse.

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse.

This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal.

This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal.

This book challenges the existing misconception that there was no rhetoric in ancient China.

This book challenges the existing misconception that there was no rhetoric in ancient China.

In this book, Robert Nelson reminds us that one of the most important elements of teaching and learning is to inspire and to be inspired.

In this book, Robert Nelson reminds us that one of the most important elements of teaching and learning is to inspire and to be inspired.

This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field's focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors.

This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field's focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors.

The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning.

The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning.

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First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversational analysis broadly divided into papers of description and experiment on one hand and papers of theory and analysis on the other.

First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversational analysis broadly divided into papers of description and experiment on one hand and papers of theory and analysis on the other.

Drawing on naturally occurring doctor- patient conversations in real- life medical consultations, this book analyzes the similarities and differences in doctor- patient communication and patient satisfaction between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine (WM) practiced in China.

Drawing on naturally occurring doctor- patient conversations in real- life medical consultations, this book analyzes the similarities and differences in doctor- patient communication and patient satisfaction between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine (WM) practiced in China.

This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts.

This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts.

Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies es un manual internacional que ofrece un panorama abarcador de los Estudios del discurso, con acento en las areas mas relevantes, actuales y de proyeccion futura en el mundo hispanohablante.

Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies es un manual internacional que ofrece un panorama abarcador de los Estudios del discurso, con acento en las areas mas relevantes, actuales y de proyeccion futura en el mundo hispanohablante.

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste.

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste.

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies.

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies.

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion.

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion.

This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis.

This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis.

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From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students' retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority.

This book uniquely combines data from a study focused on the use of dialogic instruction in an elementary classroom, with analysis of students' retrospective beliefs about the classroom environment, interactions, and authority.

This book is framed as a memoir of the author's journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures.

This book is framed as a memoir of the author's journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of microethnographic discourse analysis for researching, theorizing, and reconceptualizing the uses of language and literacy in educational settings.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of microethnographic discourse analysis for researching, theorizing, and reconceptualizing the uses of language and literacy in educational settings.

Analysis of discourse production among speakers with acquired communication disorders is an important and necessary clinical procedure.

Analysis of discourse production among speakers with acquired communication disorders is an important and necessary clinical procedure.

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex.

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex.

This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education.

This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education.