Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A.

Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics.

The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication.

This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language.

Threatening is among the less pleasant "e;things we do with words"e;, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role in communication.

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings.

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of 'self' in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity.

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.

Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity.

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics.

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research.

Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together.

The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change.

Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se.

This book presents an innovative exploration of linguistic prefabrication in the travel advertising discourse from a functional perspective.

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area.

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists.

Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics.

In middle-class Anglo-speaking circles imperatives are considered impolite forms that command another to do something; etiquette manuals recommend avoiding them.

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity.

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations.

Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories.

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers.

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them.

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English.

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones.

While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction.

The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law.

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses.

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics.

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek.

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing.