Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics.

A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.

The concept of authenticity has received some attention in recent academic discourse, yet it has often been left under-defined from a sociolinguistic perspective.

In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from?

A new perspective on how far law''s power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.

News Framing Through English-Chinese Translation provides a useful tool to depict how Chinese news translation can be examined in the era of globalization.

Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus on Peru.

This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States.

This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings.

Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts.

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature.

This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor.

Franklin Roosevelt instinctively understood that a politician unable to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction ('phrasal verb') from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present.

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before.

Kollokationen sind häufig auftretende Wortverbindungen, deren Kombination semantisch motiviert ist (z.

Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of 'pro and con' where the aim is to persuade others, a jury or an audience, of what is right and what is wrong.

This book explores the construction of agreement in the argumentative process, aiming to investigate how the activation of shared knowledge, values and beliefs leads to the creation of a common ground between the speaker and the audience in the pursuit of persuasion.

What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society?

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.

A definitive guide to the long tradition of lexicography, this handbook is a rigorous and systematic overview of the field and its recent developments.

Justice's first aim in this volume is to demystify the Arabic language, which is widely perceived as difficult to learn, and has been characterised as ambiguous and confusingly polysemous.

In Style, John Haynes provides a lively introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning.

Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of 'context'.