Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book provides an overview of different approaches to research on language and multimodality in social interactions.

This book provides an overview of different approaches to research on language and multimodality in social interactions.

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Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition.

A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life.

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies.

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies.

Learning and Teaching a Second Language: A Pragmatic Perspective provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching.

Learning and Teaching a Second Language: A Pragmatic Perspective provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching.

This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, which encompasses research on both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the evolution of language.

This book contributes to the ongoing empirical, conceptual, and meta-theoretical debates regarding the merits and drawbacks of the cartographic program in linguistic theory.

Bounded Meaning investigates the dynamics of interpretation: how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, not just to the context in which the expression is used, but also to the expression's linguistic environment-in other words, how and why interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information.

Bounded Meaning investigates the dynamics of interpretation: how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, not just to the context in which the expression is used, but also to the expression's linguistic environment-in other words, how and why interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information.

This volume brings together insights from leading scholars in the field of grammatical aspect to examine the multifaceted nature of this pivotal linguistic resource used to express temporal meaning.

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language.

Whenever political and social decisions use categories of identity such as race, religion, social class, or nationality to distinguish groups of people, they risk holding certain groups as inferior and culturally "e;Other.

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it.

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v.

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v.

This book investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a representative sample of parenthetical constructions.

Whenever political and social decisions use categories of identity such as race, religion, social class, or nationality to distinguish groups of people, they risk holding certain groups as inferior and culturally "e;Other.

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience.

This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry.

This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry.

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience.

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the general theoretical and architectural issues that nominalizations have raised since the earliest work in generative syntax.

This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages, including English, Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic languages, and a number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects.

This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in which claims of ability are-in certain temporal contexts-interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of as descriptions of potentialities or possibilities.

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world.

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears.

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears.

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals.

Signaling without Saying develops game-theoretic approaches to social meaning to model the phenomenon of dogwhistles, perhaps best known from political speech.

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals.

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century.

This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework.

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century.

This book presents a construction-based approach to understanding English syntactic constructions that challenge traditional form-function relationships, exploring complex linguistic phenomena that have posed empirical and analytical puzzles in grammatical research.