Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

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.

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.

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.

The ten volumes of the 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.

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.

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.

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.

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way.

Since the 1980s, Roger D.

The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse?

In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology.

This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships.

Against the background of jargon-ridden and often obscure semiotic literature Sadowski's book offers a reader-friendly yet rigorous account of human communication and its evolution from animal and primate behaviour.

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations.

With her theory of 'Language as Dialogue', Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines.

This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts in other languages as well.

The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over language representations.

This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic "e;context(s)"e; in relation to the notion of "e;constructions"e; and in construction grammar.

This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13 months and ending when they were 18 months old.

The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives.

How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose?

Terminology in Everyday Life contains a selection of fresh and interesting articles by prominent scholars and practitioners in the field of terminology based on papers presented at an international terminology congress on the impact of terminology on everyday life.

Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it.

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives.

Text is highly structured, and structured at a variety of levels.

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction.

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs.

In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H.

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data.

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings.

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means.

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD).

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other?

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation.

This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages.

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use.

In this book sixteen international scholars of language and social interaction describe their distinct frameworks of analysis.

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s.

Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue.

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far.

In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies.

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning.

Synthesizing ideas from event semantics and psycholinguistics, this monograph provides a new perspective on the processing of linguistic aspect and aspectual coercion.

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves.

This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse.

This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour.

The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media.

This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus.

Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of opinion in discourse.

This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination.