Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse.

New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field.

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M.

Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts.

Presents, in simple and clear terms, the way in which humans express their ideas by talking.

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.

The present volume is dedicated to the phenomenon of pragmaticalization in the context of the theory of grammaticalization.

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language.

A comprehensive overview of how we use prosody to do things in conversation, such as persuade, suggest, flatter, take turns and reach agreement.

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas.

Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses.

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the 'community', that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.

This book attempts to marry truth-conditional semantics with cognitive linguistics in the church of computational neuroscience.

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "e;appliability"e; of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language.

First published in 1986, Stylistics and Psychology is an empirical investigation into foregrounding.

A panoramic explanation of "e;civic tourism"e; and the shaping of a national identityAt the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism.

First published in 1977, Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies reports on the results of a grammatical analysis of the speech of a large sample (about 300) of five-year-old middle- and working-class children.

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar.

This book tackles the interface between translation and pragmatics.

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness.

Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or a city, which forms part of the social environment of a country or a region.

Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign.

Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard?

In this challenging and at times controversial book, Ronald Carter addresses the discourse of 'English' as a subject of teaching and learning.

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social.

This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context.

The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs.