Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The book is an investigation of the semantics of counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective.

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts.

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression.

This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof's 1997 volume.

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens and translation as an applied practice.

As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation 'signifying nothing' because, like Macbeth, we think of them as daggers of the mind that raise questions about the reality of our signs, about signs as tools of creation and power, about the dark terrors (and lighter joys) that exist in human desire, and about the signs and the mind.

In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics.

This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression.

This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia.

Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations.

Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia (Qantas being another).

This interdisciplinary volume of collected, mostly unpublished essays demonstrates how Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning--and its subsequent elaborations--have influenced a wide range of critical discourses.

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance.

The first linguistics-based textbook on conversation analysis, illuminating the universals of interaction across a rich array of languages.

In our post-truth world, tapping into people's emotions has proved far more effective than rational argument - and, as Philip Seargeant argues in this illuminating and entertaining book, the most powerful tool for manipulating emotions is a gripping narrative.

By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe and foster more engaged interaction between teacher and student, particularly in language learning contexts.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology.

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical.

Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon - an 'alternative' sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants.

Considering perspectives on creative advertising through a unique media and communications lens, this book encompasses both the theory and practical tools needed to approach and understand creativity in advertising with an original eye.

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims?

Populist Discourse brings together experts from both linguistics and political science to analyse the language of populist leaders and the media's representation of populism in different temporal, geographical and ideological contexts, including Nazi Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Greece, the UK, the US and South America.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics.

Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.