Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds.

This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies.

In the present study the use of thanking formulae is examined across different genres and varieties of English.

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age.

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use.

Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization.

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D.

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts).

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories.

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse.

This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities.

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611.

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world.

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from 'above' (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from 'below' (in focus group discussions among Scottish people).

In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction.

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe.

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change.

This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor.

The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways.

The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology.

This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour.

Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion is a collection of papers presenting original research on narration in Mandarin, especially as it contrasts to what is known regarding narration in English.

How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular context?

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs.

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project.

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years.

Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives brings together an exciting collection of studies into crisis as text and context, as unfolding process and unresolved problem.

Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics.

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.

It seems to be a truism that today's news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago.

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the various forms and functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of American presidents.

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

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little - if any - discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content.

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them.

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages.

This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research.

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar.

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework.

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or "e;language regimes"e;) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness.

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics.

From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning.