Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The book outlines the evolution and role of minority languages locally and nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; and it assesses the social and economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China.

With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.

This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description of language content.

Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action , Grant here issues a range of challenges to it.

This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works.

Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usually disparaged as empty speech.

Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them.

Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another.

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language?

We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "e;serious"e; inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "e;hard"e; fact and "e;cold"e; logic in support of its claims.

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L.

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age.

On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an "e;illumination"e;-the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society-a fundamental change in Rousseau's perspective that would animate all of his subsequent works.

From Plato's contempt for "e;the madness of the multitude"e; to Kant's lament for "e;the great unthinking mass,"e; the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life.

Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "e;new originalist"e; interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting.

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world.

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression.

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art.

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories.

Princess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy.

Plato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist.

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening.

In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity.

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources.

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history.

In The Dynamics of Meaning, Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework.

How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs?

The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago-faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field.

"e;Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,"e; claimed Aristotle.

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown.

Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselves as having meaning-properties.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

Multilingualism and the Periphery is an edited volume that explores the ways in which core-periphery dynamics shape multilingualism.

Given the prevalence of war around the world, it is vital to understand the way discourse contributes to the promotion and positioning of war as a natural or inevitable response to international problems.

Few conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and disturbing.

This books offers a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world.

This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use.

Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have different first languages and cultures, yet communicate in a common language.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied.

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor.

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years.

The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution.

This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!

It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca.

A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language.

The War on Terror Narrative analyzes three types of data--presidential speeches, U.

In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking.

This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.