Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple 'crises' in Greece.

A practical guide to building the ultimate immune system naturally Explores specific immune-boosting essential oils, herbs, and mushrooms in depth, revealing their multilayered effectiveness in supporting health Discusses probiotics and specific foods that boost immunity, as well as foods common in the modern diet that can temporarily put the immune system out of commission Looks at behaviors that can sabotage your immune system as well as the best habits for maintaining super-powered immunity for lifeViruses and superbugs have become a part of day-to-day living, but that doesnt mean you have to live in fear of catching one.

This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship.

Develop your own unique healing protocol for Long Covid Discusses how to deal with the symptoms of Long Covid, from brain fog and headaches to hormonal dysregulation, immune malfunction, and limbic system dysfunction, to histamine intolerance to certain foods and more Presents medicines and methods ranging from pharmaceutical, herbal, and homeopathic remedies to breathwork practices, detox therapies, lymph drainage exercises, shamanic techniques, and neuroplasticity retraining Explores techniques for accessing ones own intuition for remedies and how to combine them with modern medicineEarly in the pandemic, Vir McCoy contracted Covid-19, which developed into post-acute sequelae of Covid (PASC), commonly known as long Covid or long-haul Covid.

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

Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movementIn Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller examines civil rights mass meetings as a transformative rhetorical, and religious, experience.

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.

Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them.

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.

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis.

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis.

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.

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are rhetorical constructs.

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek textsHow did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "e;rhetoric"e;?

"e;This incisive work"e; examining Obama's speeches and the theories of W.

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor.

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life - for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being.

The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives.

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is "e;the architecture of intersubjectivity"e;: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds.

Lincoln's letters have been cited in countless biographical and critical works yet have received little scholarly attention as a whole.

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian-with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei.

During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter "e;this election is not a joke"e;.

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop.

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing.

This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two 'circles' which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, 'language use'.

Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics.

Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted.

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account.

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised.

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication.

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic's position, a tricky political practice emerges.

In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation.

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions.

The book explores the nexus of intellectual activity and nation-building from a critical discourse-analytical perspective.

This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction.

As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use.

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways.

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics.

This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking.

Humans are adaptive beings.

Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors.

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers.

This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day.