Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts.

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality.

This book proposes a new model for the translation-oriented analysis of multimodal source texts.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin.

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting.

This monograph presents the result of the authors' scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic and extralinguistic realia in the framework of cognitive linguistics, as well as oral and written communication in intercultural professional business discourse.

This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection.

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts.

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

This book shows how research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy of language, and rhetoric can be connected through argumentation to analyze a recognizably common strategy used in political and everyday conversation, namely the distortion of another's words in an argumentative exchange.

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices.

This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse.

This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the interactions around the event of death.

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience.

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives.

This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect.

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature.

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals.

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach.

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933.

This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in.

This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature.

The present volume of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics series, presents cutting-edge corpus pragmatics research on language use in new social and educational environments.

This volume brings together a selection of pivotal articles published in the hundred years since the launch of the journal Neophilologus.

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.

This book reviews systematic training programs that are designed to enhance the language, reading, literacy and cognitive skills of individuals with Learning Disabilities in various disciplines.

This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy.

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses "e;lexomic"e; methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem.

This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity.

This multidisciplinary volume offers insights on oral and written language development and how it takes place in literate societies.

In this updated second edition renowned amateur comet-searcher David H.

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