Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization.

How and why is silence used interculturally?

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction.

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research.

This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions.

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought.

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today?

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies.

Cross-linguistic semantics - investigating how languages package and express meanings differently - is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language.

The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction.

This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian.

Information and communication technology is transforming our notion of literacy.

The Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais has become a standard text in the French-speaking world for the study of comparative stylistics and the training of translators.

This volume covers a wide range of topics in Interpreting and Translation Research.

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion.

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric.

This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews.

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research.

Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research.

This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch.

One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text.

How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one of the central questions in studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC).

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings.

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English.

Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young.

Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora.

This book brings together contributions from a diverse collection of scholars who explore different ways of combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, studying discourse at the prosodic, lexical, and textual levels.

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue.