Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse.

Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way.

Several current linguistic approaches converge in rejecting the wide-spread idea that language is an autonomous system, i.

This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore's ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics.

This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax.

The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation.

The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.

This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993.

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language.

Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter.

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction.

Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self.

This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English.

This edited volume brings together a range of contributions solely on the linguistics of humour.

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish.

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Genevieve Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought.

This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins.

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures.

Research on the "e;embodiment hypothesis"e; within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition.

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality.

The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence.

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse.

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity.

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D.

The notion of controversy space is the key element of the new model of scientific and philosophical change introduced in this book.

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis.

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories.

Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present.

The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a "e;member phenomenon"e;.

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker's reported experience.

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis.

Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research.

This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism.

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language.

It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis.

This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents.

The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations, and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal languages for the purpose of describing and explaining phenomena of natural language.

This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure.

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’.

Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics.

An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success.

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them.

This volume brings together new research on theoretical Romance Linguistics; its intended audience is scholars in the field of formal grammar, especially those specializing in Romance languages.

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.

The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.

The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992).

How can symbols have meaning for a subject?

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level.

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language.

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language.