Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics.

Together with the volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,"e; this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature.

Three approaches to analyzing institutional talk are introduced by internationally-recognized experts: Conversation Analysis, Discursive Psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis.

This book examines the most frequent form of Jew-hatred: Israel-related antisemitism.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space.

This volume enacts a project we term 'a politics of form', working to politicise the formal analysis of narrative in novels, life narratives, documentaries, dramas, short prose works and multimodal texts while retaining the form specificity that is distinctive of narratology.

William Labov extends his widely used framework for narrative analysis to matters of greatest human concern: life and death.

Critical Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies is the first textbook to provide a systematic treatment of how CDA may be applied to the analysis of translated and interpreted texts.

English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.

Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue is the first comprehensive overview of the emerging and rapidly growing sub-discipline in linguistics, Language and Dialogue.

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world.

This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically.

Entgegen der verbreiteten Auffassung, nach der Augustins Rhetorik dem Verständnis seines theologisch-philosophischen Anliegens eher hinderlich ist, versucht das vorliegende Buch, Augustins rhetorische Technik als hermeneutischen Schlüssel zu seiner philosophischen Argumentation nutzbar zu machen.

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian.

Ausgehend vom Erfolg des Begriffs "Framing" im massenmedialen Diskurs fragt der Band nach den Gründen für die mediale Attraktivität des so bezeichneten Konzepts und setzt sich kritisch mit den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der dabei vermittelten Vorstellungen von politischer Sprache auseinander.

The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions.

No detailed description available for "e;The Grammar of Inalienability"e;.

This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media from the time of the Second World War to the present day.

Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world.

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use.

An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable.

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire's influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward.

This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor.

Outlining the core methodological and theoretical premises, this book presents the essential approaches that you need to know when doing discourse analysis for the first time.

This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions.

This textbook introduces the reader to contemporary approaches to language analysis such as cognitive stylistics and corpus stylistics, reflecting recent shifts in research trends and offering students a practical way to access and understand these developments.