Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions.

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis.

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants' differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge.

The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language.

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish.

Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology.

Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science.

The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts.

The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic.

This book marks a new development in the field of grammaticalisation studies, in that it extends the field of grammaticalisation studies from relatively homogeneous languages to those possessing well-established and institutionalised second language varieties.

Terminology: Theory, methods and applications addresses language specialists, terminologists, and all those who take an interest in socio-political and technical aspects of Terminology.

This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts.

The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use.

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz.

The ten papers in this volume focus on Subject and Theme.

This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages.

This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations.

This book uses Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory to show how evidential expressions can be analysed in a unified semantic/pragmatic framework.

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood.

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory.

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication disorders.

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages.

Human beings are political animals.