Drawing on cases in American courts in which the author served as an expert, this book gives a linguistic analysis of disputed meanings in English at the basis of lawsuits. It is essential reading for researchers and students of semantics, pragmatic...Loe edasi...
This collection advances research on multimodality in digital communication with a focus on social media in the French context.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, digital communication, semiotics, discourse ana...Loe edasi...
This volume provides comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa, examining scientific nomenclature, English and Afrikaans vernacular names, and indigenous African language names, including:Comprehensive analysis o...Loe edasi...
This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative. This book examines overlaps, diffe...Loe edasi...
Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism....Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...Loe edasi...
This book examines how political discourse on immigration is constructed across Italian social media, focusing on the ways otherness is reshaped within digital platforms. Drawing on Social-Media Critical Discourse Studies, it introduces the concept...Loe edasi...
This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media....Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeares political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III)...Loe edasi...
Digital Discourse Analysis and Participatory Media explores mechanisms of discourse and power on social media. KhosraviNik and Kelsey adopt interdisciplinary transnational perspectives on current debates about the role of social media in so...Loe edasi...
This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse strategy which the author coins as a metaphoric comparison. The book argues that culture not only conditions perceptions of rea...Loe edasi...
Now in its second edition, this is a comprehensive survey of linguistics for students with no background in the field, engaging them throughout with humorous and entertaining examples of language at work. It introduces all the key topics in a clear,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108497411)
Now in its second edition, this is a comprehensive survey of linguistics for students with no background in the field, engaging them throughout with humorous and entertaining examples of language at work. It introduces all the key topics in a clear,...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry. This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of...Loe edasi...
This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics. It combines theory and practice to examine contextualised relational conduct, wi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865660)
Our political landscape is crowded with competing voices—claims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violence—all made in the name of some idea of “the people.” This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009100755)
Covering a broad range of language aspects, this book provides a systematic and coherent study of non-native grammars of Chinese. It provides a valuable source of data, making it essential reading for academic researchers of Chinese linguistics, bil...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009728171)
Through an analysis of written texts and speeches of prominent American intellectuals and political leaders of the Americanization era, this book reveals how American identity is constructed. It is essential reading for researchers and students of l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198879640)
This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of linguistics as currently practised. It provides an advanced introduction to some topics in the philosophy of linguistics and offers fresh approaches to new problems in the language sciences....Loe edasi...
Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each representing diff...Loe edasi...
This book identifies discourses of digital communication through observations of online and offline newsroom interactions, interviews, and text analysis to provide insights into how journalists use digital technologies in story productio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487575700)
In recent years, research on the nature of linguistic evidence has gained significant attention. One key finding is that linguistic inquiry should not rely solely on a single source of evidence such as introspection, corpus data, or real or though...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212809)
John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212816)
John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement....Loe edasi...
This handbook offers a detailed overview of how everyday interaction shapes social life—from classrooms and hospitals to courtrooms, homes, and online spaces. It introduces the key principles and practices of Conversation Analysis, which examines...Loe edasi...
This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field....Loe edasi...
Examining how diverse social identities are constructed in digital communication in China, this edited collection provides a multi-dimensional exploration of the diverse, discursive forms and practices used to construct and present the self online....Loe edasi...
This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects which arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward...Loe edasi...
Drawing on cases in American courts in which the author served as an expert, this book gives a linguistic analysis of disputed meanings in English at the basis of lawsuits. It is essential reading for researchers and students of semantics, pragmatic...Loe edasi...
This collection advances research on multimodality in digital communication with a focus on social media in the French context.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, digital communication, semiotics, discourse ana...Loe edasi...
This volume provides comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa, examining scientific nomenclature, English and Afrikaans vernacular names, and indigenous African language names, including:Comprehensive analysis o...Loe edasi...
This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative. This book examines overlaps, diffe...Loe edasi...
Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110794618)
Gestures are integral to spoken language. However, much of modern linguistic enquiry has been based on analyses of language as text. This book is situated in the turn towards face-to-face interaction as the primary source of linguistic data. Takin...Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...Loe edasi...
This book examines how political discourse on immigration is constructed across Italian social media, focusing on the ways otherness is reshaped within digital platforms. Drawing on Social-Media Critical Discourse Studies, it introduces the concept...Loe edasi...
This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media....Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027232007)
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English groupi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119144247)
Studying argumentation has long been the domain of logic and rhetoric. But modern persuasive media show that arguments may be deployed and conveyed in multiple semiotic modes, such as visual image, sound or gesture. These strategically combine with...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the characterisation and representation of female authority in Shakespeares political plays by collecting the linguistic behavioural patterns of the queens of the first tetralogy (King Henry VI Part 1, 2, 3 and King Richard III)...Loe edasi...
Digital Discourse Analysis and Participatory Media explores mechanisms of discourse and power on social media. KhosraviNik and Kelsey adopt interdisciplinary transnational perspectives on current debates about the role of social media in so...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366197)
Illuminates the geographic and cultural diversity of ancient rhetoricThe Gods Themselves examines ancient myth as a source of rhetorical precept and a tool of human persuasion. In this provocative work, Shawn D. Ramsey extends...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366500)
Illuminates the geographic and cultural diversity of ancient rhetoricThe Gods Themselves examines ancient myth as a source of rhetorical precept and a tool of human persuasion. In this provocative work, Shawn D. Ramsey extends...Loe edasi...
This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse strategy which the author coins as a metaphoric comparison. The book argues that culture not only conditions perceptions of rea...Loe edasi...
Now in its second edition, this is a comprehensive survey of linguistics for students with no background in the field, engaging them throughout with humorous and entertaining examples of language at work. It introduces all the key topics in a clear,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108497411)
Now in its second edition, this is a comprehensive survey of linguistics for students with no background in the field, engaging them throughout with humorous and entertaining examples of language at work. It introduces all the key topics in a clear,...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of social media influencers (SMIs) and copywriters in the advertising industry. This book investigates the processes and products of the language work of...Loe edasi...
This book offers a localised cultural approach to understanding (im)politeness behaviour in Mexico, thereby making a meaningful contribution to the study of pragmatics. It combines theory and practice to examine contextualised relational conduct, wi...Loe edasi...
This striking pocket hardback edition presents Aristotles classic treatise on the art of persuasion, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865660)
Our political landscape is crowded with competing voices—claims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violence—all made in the name of some idea of “the people.” This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365312)
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowermentModern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366531)
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowermentModern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many...Loe edasi...
