Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns.

This edited collection represents a first-of-its-kind exploration of English-related discourses in the Caribbean.

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry''s unique psychological qualities.

Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of classroom science discourse among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.

This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages.

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri.

Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-being.

A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

Although semiotics has, in one guise or another, ftourished uninterruptedly since pre- Socratic times in the West, and important semiotic themes have emerged and devel- oped independently in both the Brahmanie and Buddhistic traditions, semiotics as an organized undertaking began to 100m only in the 1960s.

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction.

First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English.

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

It seems to be a truism that today's news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago.

This book presents a critical analysis of ways in which schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia are represented in the press.

Diese Studie befaßt sich mit der Lizensierung und Realisierung von Argumenten englischer Verben.

Using a wide range of examples, this book examines the discourse of professional writing and its important role in society.

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life.

In The Writing of Where, Charles Lesh examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city.

This book sets out to describe the multi-dimensional nature and function of rhetorical questions in the Old Testament.

Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus on Peru.

Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education.

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others.

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation.

This reference guide traces the writing across the curriculum movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education.

Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse - narrator, interlocutor and character - to achieve specific goals.

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Brings together a team of scholars from a range of disciplines, to explore the analysis of crime-related language.

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood.

Discurso y conocimiento se trata de un libro sobre las maneras que tienen los usuarios del lenguaje en gestionar el conocimiento en el discurso.

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