Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics.

This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels.

This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's Topics, its founding text, up to its "e;renaissance"e; in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge.

Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative reference work designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by Sonja K.

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia.

This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field's focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors.

In this timely and innovative book, Tamar Katriel takes a language and discourse-centred approach to the subject of peace activism in Israel-Palestine, one of the most significant political issues of our time, while also posing more general questions about the role played by language in activist movements - how activists themselves conceptualize their speech and its relationship to action.

First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence - that of representation.

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

Winner of the National Communication Association's 2023 Hochmuth-Nichols Award "e; .

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics.

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature.

What is legal language and where is it found?

We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pagesthe front matterand go right to the words we wish to look up.

This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure.

Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge work in the field of discourse analysis.

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today.

The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall's 60th birthday.

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications.

Pragmalinguistische Untersuchungen, die gänzlich von kognitiven Dimensionen abstrahieren, verlieren zentrale Aspekte ihres Gegenstandsbereichs aus dem Blick.

This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity.

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis.

Pragmalinguistische Untersuchungen, die gänzlich von kognitiven Dimensionen abstrahieren, verlieren zentrale Aspekte ihres Gegenstandsbereichs aus dem Blick.

Der Titel dieses Buches, "Bausteine syntaktischen Wissens", enthält eine syste­ matische Mehrdeutigkeit.

This book examines how identities are constructed in digital, multimodal discourse, and how these identities (gender, age, race, ethnicity, professional, etc.

Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the techne, or "e;handbook,"e; tradition-which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates-as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric.