Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

The present collection of articles, presented at the 8th IADA Conference in Goteborg, focuses on understanding and misunderstanding as dialogic phenomena.

The book explores aspects of reflexivity and interactivity in a variety of academic genres: oral and written, scientific and educational.

Together with the first volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Theoretical developments,"e; this book collects contributions that represent the state of the art on the interconnection between pragmatics and philosophy.

This collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generative research.

Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to factivity and its acquisition.

In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown steadily.

This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data.

Schweigen ist die Negation von Rede, zugleich aber ein unerlässlicher Bestandteil von Rede und Kommunikation.

In April 2004, a group of international scholars convened in Chicago, Illinois for a workshop of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis.