Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order.

The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction.

A distinction is made in formal semantics between "e;stage-level predicates,"e; predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "e;individual-level predicates,"e; predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun.

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.

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators.

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.

Apocalyptic expectations of Armageddon and a New Age have been a fixture of the American cultural landscape for centuries.

This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping.

Carol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to "e;surprise in poetry"e; to supervisor-worker interactions on the automobile assembly line.

Rhetorical Figures in Science breaks new ground in the rhetorical study of scientific argument as the first book to demonstrate how figures of speech other than metaphor have been used to accomplish key conceptual moves in scientific texts.

This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("e;or something,"e; "e;and stuff,"e; "e;or whatever"e;).

In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers.

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics.

Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England.

A text that will appeal to any reader interested in the relation of language to the law, or vice versa, Ideological Diversity in Courtroom Discourse focuses on the guilty plea as both a distinct procedure and a dialogue constrained by boundaries.

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

This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts.

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.

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.

In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing.

This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "e;part"e; and "e;whole "e; in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role.

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory.

This book explores the concept of human rights as constructed in language, shedding light on discursive and professional practices at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as differentiated from other judicial institutions offering human rights defence mechanisms.

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context.

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context.

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge.

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity.

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses.

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970.

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.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language.

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject.

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject.

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate.

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate.

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation.

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation.

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches.

This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches.

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics.

This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere.

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for?

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for?

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages.

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species.