Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates.

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.

This book suggests that gossip can be used as an interpretive key to understand more of early Christian identity and theology.

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts.

A product of extensive archival research and numerous interviews, 1977: A Cultural Moment In Composition examines the local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural, and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year composition program at one representative site, Penn State University, in the late 1970s.

The Metaphor Compass: Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity provides a roadmap to navigate the recent findings and cutting-edge research conducted around the world on metaphor, focusing on the following four themes: Metaphor and Linguistic Diversity, Metaphor and Cognition, Metaphor and Communication, and Metaphor and Creativity.

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue.

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse.

This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization/disorganization, offering a conceptual and methodological toolbox for studying dis/organization as communication.

Comunicacion especializada y divulgacion en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus adopta un enfoque basado en corpus para analizar los principales rasgos discursivos de la divulgacion y de la comunicacion especializada en espanol.

This collection explores the range of approaches and frameworks used in the study of minority languages and cultures in audiovisual translation (AVT), encouraging interdisciplinary conversations toward fostering linguistic diversity on screen.

This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions.

This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts.

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language.

This book explores the life stories of Latin American immigrants living in London.

GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "e;genre turn"e; in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.

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Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change.

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach, The Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction presents a series of contributions written by educators and applied linguists that explores the latest research methodologies and theories related to classroom language.

This book argues that there is a common cognitive mechanism underlying all indexical thoughts, in spite of their seeming diversity.

Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.

This book explores communication in emergency call and response centers, taking an approach drawn from Conversation Analysis to examine how call-takers answer calls and the ways in which dispatch is issued in different contexts.

This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children's picture books.

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

Pangkhua is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by about 2000 people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

While organisations become more and more global, they also become more and more dispersed and virtual.

Winner of the British Society of Criminology 'Criminology Book Prize 2012'


This book uses transcripts from real UK police interviews, investigating previously unexplored and under-explored areas of the process.

Im Laufe ihrer wissenschaftlichen Karriere hat Christina Gansel Forschungsbeiträge zu verschiedenen linguistischen Arbeitsfeldern veröffentlicht; von ihren Anfängen in der Grammatikforschung, über Forschungen im Kontext der Semantik von Verben, bis hin zu umfassenden Arbeiten im Bereich der Textlinguistik.

The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.