This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona. The author adopts a corpus-driven approach th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823284184)
Lives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It argues that this fascination with the poetic life-a special case of the att...Loe edasi...
Lives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It argues that this fascination with the poetic life-a special case of the att...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198803447)
Kenneth A. Taylor examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry with the aim of bringing philosophical methodology into closer alignment with total science. He urges philosophers who seek metaphysical insi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190939472)
The first syntax-pragmatics interface for Latin, Pragmatics for Latin offers a detailed philological analysis of Latin information structure and shows how the grammatical and pragmatic meanings of Latin sentences can be computed quite naturally...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive resource that catalogues the most common and useful prosodic patterns in English, explaining how we weave together intonation, loudness variation, and timing to frame words, tie meanings together, and achieve our goals in conver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107181069)
A comprehensive resource that catalogues the most common and useful prosodic patterns in English, explaining how we weave together intonation, loudness variation, and timing to frame words, tie meanings together, and achieve our goals in conver...Loe edasi...
In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Mautes life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intima...Loe edasi...
Populist Discourse brings together experts from both linguistics and political science to analyze the language of populist leaders and the media representation on populism in different temporal, geographical and ideological contexts, including...Loe edasi...
Populist Discourse brings together experts from both linguistics and political science to analyze the language of populist leaders and the media representation on populism in different temporal, geographical and ideological contexts, incl...Loe edasi...
This volume collects original articles that address semantic and pragmatic aspects of secondary content, including expressives, various particles, adverbials, pronouns, quotations, and dogwhistle language....Loe edasi...
Lexical Conflict combines theoretical and applied linguistic perspectives to explore the lexical richness of over 100 world languages. The text systematises cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences and then formulates strategies of lexic...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together leading scholars in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics to introduce new methods for analysing discourse-pragmatic features such as like, innit, you get me, and at the end of the day. It also provides new...Loe edasi...
Modification offers a thorough and accessible exploration of what adjectives and adverbs mean, how they interact with what they modify, and how language expresses the inherent gradience of the world. An invaluable addition to the field for stud...Loe edasi...
Olga Kagan presents a new unified analysis of Russian verbal prefixes which combines a formal semantic approach with detailed discussion of data. In doing so, she sheds light on an intricate and puzzling phenomenon which is of interest to lingu...Loe edasi...
This book shows that the semantic analysis of notions of possibility and necessity enhance our understanding of reports of belief or emotional state. This helps to solve problems in semantic theory, and it provides a high level proposal for the...Loe edasi...
In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression. In subsequent years, however, cuts to public expenditu...Loe edasi...
This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention. Semantic categories, such as concepts, classes, and feature bundles, can be expressed by more than...Loe edasi...
This book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subsequently, news organizations, choose to promote an identity for themselves and the ideologies that acc...Loe edasi...
This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical developments and thought-provoking empirical data. In doing so, they c...Loe edasi...