Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as :(i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars in Systemic Functional Linguistics, this book explores the contributions made to SFL theory by James Robert Martin.

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents.

The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines.

This book considers important aspects of the syntax of sentences and their relation to the extra-sentential context.

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory.

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts.

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.

Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more on ideological and psychological aspects of the phenomenon.

This book provides a state-of-the-art introduction to categorial grammar, a type of formal grammar which analyses expressions as functions or according to a function-argument relationship.

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture?

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.

Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning.

"e;Larvatus prodeo,"e; announced Rene Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "e;I come forward, masked.

This book proposes a new two-step approach to the evolution of language, whereby syntax first evolved as an auto-organizational process for the human conceptual apparatus (as a Language of Thought), and this Language of Thought was then externalized for communication, owing to social selection pressures.

The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives.

A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described "e;global health capital"e; Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.

This book explores representations of social media in European media discourses across different socio-historical contexts, demonstrating how such analysis can illuminate the tension between global and local in media discourses in today's globalised world.

This volume discusses current and emerging trends in Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA).

In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity.

During the past 20 years the investigation into meaning of natural languages has emerged into one of the most active disciplines in theoretical linguistics.

According to many commentators, Davidson's earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much less successful.

Key imperial and royal courts--in Han, Tang, and Song dynasty China; medieval and renaissance Europe; and Heian and Muromachi Japan--are examined in this comparative and interdisciplinary volume as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society.

In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies-socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist-and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts.

Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges.

An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

This book addresses intensification and modal necessity in Mandarin Chinese.

This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use.

This book contributes to the scholarly debate on the forms and patterns of interaction and discourse in modern digital communication by probing some of the social functions that online communication has for its users.

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, freedom and responsibility, and individual advancement and the common good.

Asserting that written language is on the verge of its greatest change since the advent of the printing press, visual artist Craig McDaniel and art historian Jean Robertson bring us Spellbound - a collection of heavily illustrated essays that interrogate assumptions about language and typography.

Examining how diverse social identities are constructed in digital communication in China, this edited collection provides a multidimensional exploration of the diverse, discursive forms and practices used to construct and present the "e;self"e; online.

The emergence of social networking sites, like Facebook, and people's engagement with one another through them is a relatively under-researched area for discourse analysis.

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of ''you'' across time, genre and medium.

This edited book explores how harmful speech works, how it can be used to change societies in bad ways and how we can defend against it.

This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona.