Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics.

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese.

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics.

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning.

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning.

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse?

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse?

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication.

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication.

Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview.

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and images.

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and images.

Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world.

Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world.

This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families.

From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy.

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.

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure.

Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon.

In The Language of Fraud Cases, Roger Shuy follows the now well-established format of his previous volumes on language and law.

The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu.

This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography.

Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure.

Slander and libel cases are largely about how one party uses language in ways that are claimed to defame one another.

A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property.

The vocabulary of wine is large and exceptionally vibrant -- from straight-forward descriptive words like "e;sweet"e; and "e;fragrant"e;, colorful metaphors like "e;ostentatious"e; and "e;brash"e;, to the more technical lexicon of biochemistry.

The late 20th century saw great movement in the philosophy of language, often critical of the fathers of the subject--Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Russell--but sometimes supportive of (or even defensive about) the work of the fathers.

Ellipsis is the non-expression of one or more sentence elements whose meaning can be reconstructed either from the context or from a person's knowledge of the world.

This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Ba'th regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein.

This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing communication between two people who do not speak a common language.

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today.

Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language.

For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women.

Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies.

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

In The Language of Fraud Cases, Roger Shuy follows the now well-established format of his previous volumes on language and law.

This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language.

Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language.

The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu.

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation.

This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families.

This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography.

Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language.

This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world.