Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law.

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 discursive construction of identity is often under the control of the dominant forces in society and frequently results in forms of manipulation and abuse.

When the SARS virus began its spread from southern China around the world in spring 2003, it caught regional and international health officials by surprise.

The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies.

Mental illness is an increasing concern of government health services across the globe.

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.

While there is a growing body of psycholinguistic experimental research on mappings between language and vision on a word and sentence level, there are almost no studies on how speakers perceive, conceptualise and spontaneously describe a complex visual scene on higher levels of discourse.

Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic 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.

This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect.

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.

This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages.

This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics.

Taboos are much more than just a synonym of 'forbidden'.

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.

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality.

This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist.

The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links.

The question of what constitutes effective health communication has been addressed mainly by scholars working in American and European cultural contexts.

Robert Bran­dom's Making it Explicit (1994) marks a Copernican turn in the philosophy of mind and language, as this collection of critical essays together with Brandom's enlightening answers convincingly shows.

This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985).

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German.

The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems.

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema's Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates.

The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers.

The contributions to the book "e;Communicating Gender in Context"e; deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context.

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text.

One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration.

This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse.

This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis.

Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk.

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.

In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves.

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way.

This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies.

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction.

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way.

Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications.