Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research on language in the workplace written by top scholars in the field from around the world.

This is the first book-length study on how authors of color present themselves in public literary discourse.

Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity.

Style is a distinctive manner of expression, in writing or speech.

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema's Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates.

Es handelt sich um das erste Handbuch zur Glossenkunde des Mittelalters.

Winner of the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary "e;sex panics"e; are undergirded by queerphobia, even when the panics in question don't appear to have much to do with queerness.

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter.

Discourse analysis is a wide ranging area of study that examines the features of language beyond the limits of a sentence - including vocal, written and sign language, along with any significant semiotic events.

An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States.

What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening.

This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers.

Dieser Klassiker auf dem Gebiet der Gesprächsanalyse erscheint nun in einem neuen, lesefreundlicheren Gewand.

How do library professionals talk about and refer to library users, and how is this significant?

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar.

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills.

This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns.

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum.

Pragmatic ability is crucial for second language learners to communicate appropriately and effectively; however, pragmatics is underemphasized in language teaching and testing.

Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term 'emoji speak'.

This volume forms part of the Applied Linguistics and Language Study collection that looks at the field of analysing and appreciating literary texts.

Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator's activity more visible by using critical theory.

International business exchanges between and with Asian countries have increased enormously over the last few years.

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world.

Enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.

Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education.

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric.