This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches a...Loe edasi...
Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA. More and more people seem to be interested in sharing their reading experiences and hearing other readers discuss their views on books, whether this...Loe edasi...
Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a...Loe edasi...
Critical discourse studies is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for dynamically analysing evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cu...Loe edasi...
The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classif...Loe edasi...
Questions and interrogatives in Japanese discourse have attracted considerable interest from grammarians, but the communicative aspect has received little attention. This book fills this gap. Through detailed analyses of formal and informal interac...Loe edasi...
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes:* qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods* research techniques and approaches* ethical considerat...Loe edasi...
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes:* qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods* research techniques and approaches* ethical considerat...Loe edasi...
This book analyzes how news discourse was shaped over time by external factors, such as the historical context, news production, technological innovation and current affairs, and as such both conformed to and deviated from generic conventions. U...Loe edasi...
