Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society.

This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages.

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si.

Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit.

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the 'long' nineteenth century.

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective.

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk.

This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media.

The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.

The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions - English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.

Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how politicians contest and challenge racism against a minority group that does not constitute a traditional 'race'.

The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity.

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish).

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective.

This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts.

The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions.

Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship.

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades.

This book addresses the complex time relations that occur in some types of jazz and classical music, as well as in the novel, plays and poetry.

Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics.

This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements-voice, commentary, point of view and motif-in different periods of history.

This book systematically depicts the theory of textual patterns (chengshi) of the eight-part essays and logic in ancient Chinese texts.

This book tackles the interface between translation and pragmatics.

This book features papers addressing a broad range of topics including psychology, religious studies, natural heritage, accounting, business, communication, education and sustainable development.

This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature.

This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today's technology-informed globalized world.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

A state-of-the-field survey of the key topics in Discourse Studies, written for the 21st century.

Nos enamoran los discursos claros, precisos y contundentes.

Este volumen colectivo se enmarca en el campo glotopolítico, que indaga tanto en la dimensión semiótica de los procesos políticos como en la dimensión política de las intervenciones en el espacio del lenguaje.

Durch Manipulation gelingt es, andere zu etwas zu bringen, was diese eigentlich gar nicht wollen.

Durch Manipulation gelingt es, andere zu etwas zu bringen, was diese eigentlich gar nicht wollen.

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creative and participatory space, giving rise to complexities in the definition of categories such as expert, layperson, learner, and teacher in fluid and dynamic digital contexts.

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creative and participatory space, giving rise to complexities in the definition of categories such as expert, layperson, learner, and teacher in fluid and dynamic digital contexts.

This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics.

This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics.

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

"e;A magnificent study"e; (New York Review of Books) of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism.

This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP).

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