Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Evaluation is a part of everyday life.

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in various academic fields, such as intercultural communication, contrastive textology, comparative cultural studies, historical and intercultural pragmatics.

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English).

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role?

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work.

The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoints where governance is shared, and where hegemony dictates, ranging from politics as interaction to politics as imposition.

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations?

The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse.

The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language.

By taking an interdisciplinary approach - with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature - The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields.

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.

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features.

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.

Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances.

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.

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices.

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).

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research.

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.

This book proposes a new theory ("e;proximization theory"e;) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse.

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

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.

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?

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.

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference ('we').

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.

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist.

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics.