Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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.

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text.

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research.

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 first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology.

Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters.

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe.

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by 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 argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination.

This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system.

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 explores factors relevant in the choices speakers and writers make in regard to explicitness of reference to the subjects and objects in their utterances.

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 research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer.

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.

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career.

In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space and time, identifying the semiotic and interactive problems inherent in intercultural and subcultural communication according to verbal-nonverbal cultural fluency.

Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech.

This volume, based on the first two, identifies the verbal and nonverbal personal and environmental components of narrative and dramaturgic texts and the cinema - recreated in the first through the 'reading act' according to gaze mechanism and punctuation - and traces the coding-decoding processes of the characters' semiotic-communicative itinerary between writer-creator and reader-recreator.

Human beings are political animals.

'Perspective' and 'viewpoint' are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences.

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP.

This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J.

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000.

Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture.

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages.

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000.

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume.

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics.

This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction.

In discourse, verbal messages are framed: speakers offer cues on the basis of which hearers are able to anchor the verbal message to the context.

Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A.

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp.

This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp.

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change.

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning.

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act.

Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society.

This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis.

This study aims to investigate politeness in women's and men's speech, with a particular focus on the use of c'est-a-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French.

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology.

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk.