Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton.

The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the visibility and importance of presidential speeches in determining the effectiveness and popularity of the President of the United States.

The concept of 'populism' is currently used by scholars, the media and political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum.

This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins.

New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics.

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge.

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of argumentation in the health care domain.

Die Arbeit analysiert erstmals ausführlich die öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten ("metasprachlichen Diskurse") zum Thema Anglizismen im Zeitraum 1990 bis 2001.

This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate.

This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies.

This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations in the construction of meaning.

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis.

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research.

This collection of essays is intended as a tribute to Josef Maria Jauch on his sixtieth birthd~.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This book is a stylistic study of D.

This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence.

This book presents the creation of a bilingual thesaurus (Italian and English), and its conversion into an ontology system, oriented to the Cybersecurity field of knowledge term management and the identification of a replicable method over other specialized areas of study, through computational linguistics procedures, to a statistical and qualitative measurement of the terminological coverage threshold a controlled vocabulary is able to guarantee with respect to the semantic richness proper to the domain under investigation.

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

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Provides a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates, considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning.

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience.

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis.

En la actualidad, la noción de evidencialidad ha trascendido los límites de la tipología lingüística y ha terminado importándose para la descripción de lenguas europeas como el inglés, francés o español.