Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today?

This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature.

This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education - Hindi, English, or a combination of both - on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives.

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation.

This edited book focuses on speech etiquette, examining the rules that govern communication in various online communities: professional, female, and ethnospecific.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades.

Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter.

Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media is an empirical contemporary Arabic sociolinguistic investigation informed by theories and notions developed in the fields of Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology.

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators.

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Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages.

Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences.

Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads is a collection of essays, most of them written from a cognitive linguistics standpoint by leading specialists in the fields of conceptual metaphor and metonymy, and conceptual integration (blending).

Examines Transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of powerNathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times.

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics.

The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "e;global linguistics"e; (GL).

Multilingualism and the Periphery is an edited volume that explores the ways in which core-periphery dynamics shape multilingualism.

This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world.

The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets studies the discursive and pragmatic features of customer service interactions, making use of a corpus of over 1.

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics.

Seamos pragmáticos fills a void in the growing field of Spanish pragmatics.

This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions.

Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations.

Die Studie hinterfragt die in der Forschung postulierte semantische Differenz zwischen den verschiedenen Konstruktionstypen bei Psychverben.

The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech.

Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era.

This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context.

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure.

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs.

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics.