Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media.

This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, .

Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s).

This monograph deals with variable tag questions.

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective.

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English 'as (a child)'.

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game.

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012.

This book focuses on legal concepts from the dual perspective of law and terminology.

Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts.

This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse.

The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis.

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900.

This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with.

This book deals with the construction of the 'other' in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges.

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions.

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra from Australia’s Western Desert region, Japanese, Tepehua (Totonacan, Mexico), Cheyenne, Mexican Spanish, Boharic Coptic, and Persian.

This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese news interviews, police-civilian interactions in the USA, Italian interviews and courtroom examinations, Japanese parliamentary debates and Prime Minister's Questions in the UK Parliament.

What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another?

This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together.

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness.

Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many "e;ways"e; of interviewing.

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic.

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference.

The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human.

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe.

This study makes a linguistic case for the twentieth century revolution in Chinese language and literature.

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England.

This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language.

Together with the volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,"e; this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature.

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of 'enough'.

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres, from different geographies and languages.

This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.

This book shows that reading-writing is a two-way street that is burgeoning with research activity.

This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices.

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience.

This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien's literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings.

This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English.

This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors.

This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech.

This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations in the construction of meaning.

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study.

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

This volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context.

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.