Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book applies theory and research findings to the design of English for Academic Purposes courses.

En el transcurso de la historia del Hombre y las distintas culturas, el lenguaje siempre ha ejercido gran atracción como manifestación humana; incluso ha sido símbolo de dominio y superioridad social.

¿Qué dicen de nosotros las cosas que decimos?

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.

This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice.

This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice.

This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education.

Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom?

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds.

Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom?

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds.

Ira, aquí se arrejuntan las más mejores palabras de nuestra chora cotidiana, chuchuluqueadas para que gusgueés el lenguaje y peles los ojos en cada página.

La lengua es un extenso y diverso territorio por donde atraviesa la cultura toda y en el que se manifiesta casi cualquier faceta de la vida cotidiana.

"En un contexto parcialmente postpandémico, en un mundo expuesto a las consecuencias sociales, políticas y económicas de la guerra entre Ucrania y Rusia y que, de modo paralelo, transita una derechización de grandes regiones de su mapa, América Latina enfrenta esos desafíos sumados a los propios de nuestra región.

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics.

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too.

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic.

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research.

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fandom discourse of Chinese celebrities to engage in broader questions around language, social media, and fan culture.

From Plato's contempt for "e;the madness of the multitude"e; to Kant's lament for "e;the great unthinking mass,"e; the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life.

"e;Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,"e; claimed Aristotle.

We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art.

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age.

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources.

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language?

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening.

A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel.

Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works.

For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies.

Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction.

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated ';Motivorum' project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts.

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "e;styles.

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature.

"e;Larvatus prodeo,"e; announced Rene Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "e;I come forward, masked.

This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues.

This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters.

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children's novels.

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People's Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education.

Specialised translation has received very little attention from academic researchers, but in fact accounts for the bulk of professional translation on a global scale and is taught in a growing number of university-level translation programmes.

A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions.

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