Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media.

This book explains how Mandarin Chinese often leaves the subject unspoken and how readers can still work out 'who' or 'what' is being talked about by identifying patterns in connected discourse.

A skillfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word.

A skillfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word.

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants.

When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on.

This book unites lexicography with theoretical linguistics.

When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on.

In 1905, Bertrand Russell published 'On Denoting' in which he proposed and defended a quantificational account of definite descriptions.

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences.

This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures.

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers.

This is a book about semantic theories of modality.

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families.

According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "e;dimensions"e;: one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other dimension involves the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world (for example, reference and truth-conditions might be held to depend on which individuals and substances are present in the world, or on which linguistic conventions are in place).

This book is about the nature of expression in speech.

This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare’s political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III) – Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville – and so by detecting the nature and evolution of their agency.

This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeare’s political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III) – Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Neville – and so by detecting the nature and evolution of their agency.

In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the many words in biblical Hebrew that refer to being silent, investigating how they are used in biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ben Sira.

Exploring speeches by public figures such as Emma Watson, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Julia Gillard and Lady Gaga, this engaging textbook explains the ways in which political speeches can be analysed.

This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour.

This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour.

Exploring speeches by public figures such as Emma Watson, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Julia Gillard and Lady Gaga, this engaging textbook explains the ways in which political speeches can be analysed.

This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics.

This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics.

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings?

This ground-breaking book offers an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted nature of politeness and impoliteness in Persian, shedding light on how these communicative strategies are deeply woven into the sociocultural fabric of Iranian society.

This ground-breaking book offers an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted nature of politeness and impoliteness in Persian, shedding light on how these communicative strategies are deeply woven into the sociocultural fabric of Iranian society.

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings?

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The book explores the conceptualization of the 'heart' as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones.

This collection explores how expert knowledge is transformed and communicated in digital contexts.

Drawing on examples from literary and audiovisual media, this book explores the meaning transfer in translation with the theory of force dynamics as a case in point.

This book explores the pragmatic concept of interactional explanation (IE) in linguistic (im)politeness research.

Blending theory and practice, this book outlines the central role that strategic maneuvering and argumentative style play in argumentative discourse.

Introduccion al analisis linguistico del discurso en espanol introduces the field of Spanish discourse analysis from the perspective of formal linguistics and through the grammar-discourse interface, providing grammatical tools with which to analyse Spanish discourse in different contexts.

Drawing on examples from literary and audiovisual media, this book explores the meaning transfer in translation with the theory of force dynamics as a case in point.

Blending theory and practice, this book outlines the central role that strategic maneuvering and argumentative style play in argumentative discourse.

As the second of two companion volumes, this book advances the study of language and health by focusing on communication in action.

This collection brings together research on cutting-edge developments at the intersection of language ideology and metalinguistic discourse, showcasing the potential of diverse approaches.

This book explores the pragmatic concept of interactional explanation (IE) in linguistic (im)politeness research.

This collection brings together research on cutting-edge developments at the intersection of language ideology and metalinguistic discourse, showcasing the potential of diverse approaches.

This collection explores how expert knowledge is transformed and communicated in digital contexts.