This engaging and accessible textbook, by two leading experts, is a carefully crafted introduction to linguistics for translators, students and researchers of translation. Starting with basic concepts and gradually moving readers to the central ques...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...
This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive and accessible examination of perspectives within the field of discourse analysis on the processes and conditions of second language learning, teaching, and use....Loe edasi...
This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. This book is a fantastic reference for students and scholar...Loe edasi...
Most books on linguistic pragmatics overlook the role of emotion in communication. This book faces the challenges head-on by providing an original study of how we communicate our emotions through language, integrating affect in pragmatic theory. Inn...Loe edasi...
Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic—“logical expressivism”—according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive. This conce...Loe edasi...
Drawing from rich, naturally occurring language data and synthesizing insights from the fields of interpersonal pragmatics and Chinese interpersonal communication, this book presents a compelling exploration of the management of negative emotions...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together work on im/politeness with identities analysis research through the study of lay understandings of im/politeness in face-to-face naturally occurring interactions.The book features the case study of Greek friendsh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111477190)
Abstract nouns - power, privilege, race, gender, and identity - can embody varied positions that polarize the discourse around attempts to theorize them, particularly in contexts where disputes arise over activism and sociocultural change. This bo...Loe edasi...
Gramática del discurso en español approaches the syntax used in oral, written or digital communications in Spanish from a textual perspective, drawing on a wide body of the latest and most advanced research in discourse to provide an in-depth, detai...Loe edasi...
In Attributing Knowledge, Jody Azzouni challenges philosophical conventions about what it means to know something. He argues that the restrictive conditions philosophers place on knowers only hold in special cases; knowledge can be attributed to bab...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031816420)
This volume demonstrates how inductive research into speakers’ metapragmatic knowledge offers a path for researching what politeness means for language users and how this reshapes politeness theory. Through bottom-up analysis of interview data col...Loe edasi...
The Language of Asian Gestures explores Asian gestures as a non-verbal language within the context of films and dramas.This book provides a cross-cultural Asian perspective on a range of important common gestures and their meanings,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192871206)
This volume explores the new interdisciplinary field of evolutionary pragmatics, which encompasses research on both the evolution of abilities needed for pragmatics and the role of pragmatics in the evolution of language. The biological evolution of...Loe edasi...
This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents’ use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it also explores ELF in an African-European context, which has received little attention in ELF research so far. The b...Loe edasi...
This book explores pragmatics of specialized language, focusing on multiword terms, complex phrases characterized by sequences of nouns or adjectives whose meaning is clarified in the unspecified but implicit links between them....Loe edasi...
This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. It argues that interpersonal language use such as sma...Loe edasi...
Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society, culture, and identity. This book challenges the negative stereotypes and stigmatization of Konglish and argues tha...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages....Loe edasi...
