Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Successful Spoken English demonstrates how spoken learner corpora can be used to define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English.

A state-of-the-field survey of the key topics in Discourse Studies, written for the 21st century.

This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human.

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

Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media explores how and to what ends wearable inventions and technologies augment or remix reality, as well as the claims used to promote them.

This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children's picture books.

Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies.

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing issues and developments in the field of ethnomethodology, including ethnomethodological conversation analysis, and highlights new and emerging areas for research.

Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background.

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fandom discourse of Chinese celebrities to engage in broader questions around language, social media, and fan culture.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Explorando las relaciones intradiscursivas: Un enfoque multidimensional takes a multifaceted approach to provide a complete and integrative analysis of intra-discursive relationships.

This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies.

On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion.

This book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subsequently, news organizations, choose to promote an identity for themselves and the ideologies that accompany them.

Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.

This volume grew out of a symposium on discourse, tools, and instructional design at Vanderbilt University in 1995 that brought together a small international group to grapple with issues of communicating, symbolizing, modeling, and mathematizing, particularly as these issues relate to learning in the classroom.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

This book focuses on how instruction affects English learners' use of Theme and thematic progression (thematic organization).

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth.

Biblical Semantic Logic first appeared in 1981, and seeks to show that the study of biblical and ancient Near Eastern languages and literatures can be established on a logical basis.

Negotiation is a ubiquitous part of social life.

Plato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist.

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth.

Dieser Ratgeber hilft dabei, sensibler zu werden für diskriminierende Sprache.

Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

This book presents a theory of context that explains how text and talk are adapted to their social environment.

From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life.

This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics.

Examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events.

Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing.

The first volume to focus on the practices, processes, and uses of action ascription in social interaction in different languages.

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics.

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.