Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language.

The books we've read, the films we've seen, the stories we've heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven't - form an integral part of our identity.

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective.

The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change.

This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and philosophical essays.

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor.

Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds.

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness.

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives.

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses.

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis.

In much of his earlier work Roger D.

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900.

Departing from the premise that 'being ordinary' is brought into the discourse and brought out in the discourse and is thus an interactional achievement, the contributions to this edited volume investigate its construction, reconstruction and deconstruction in media discourse.

This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash.

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution.

During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter "e;this election is not a joke"e;.

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop.

This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese news interviews, police-civilian interactions in the USA, Italian interviews and courtroom examinations, Japanese parliamentary debates and Prime Minister's Questions in the UK Parliament.

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones.

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades.

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research.

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life - for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being.

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is "e;the architecture of intersubjectivity"e;: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds.

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective.

Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China.

The use of the second person singular pronoun anata 'you' in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing.

What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another?

Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics.

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing.

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English.

The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives.

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars.

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios.

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis.

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar.

What is it like?

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE.

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance.

This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy.

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse.

What is a meme?

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English.

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature.

This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping.

This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis.

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions - English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations.

Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories.