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.This volume will appeal to scholars interested in im/polite...Loe edasi...
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics....Loe edasi...
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics....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...
Fighting Words! is a critical exploration of all kinds of bad language and how that language shapes, reinforces, or subverts identity, ideology, and power....Loe edasi...
This engaging and accessible textbook, by two leading experts, is a carefully crafted introduction to linguistics for translators, students and researchers of translation....Loe edasi...
This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations....Loe edasi...
Expanding the scope of the metadiscourse construct, Ho offers a comprehensive analysis of the online review response genre using hotel managers responses to negative reviews posted by dissatisfied customers on TripAdvisor....Loe edasi...
The volume is divided into four parts, and it provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the study of social interaction....Loe edasi...
The book outlines the theoretical background and offer a wide range of hands-on activities. This reader-friendly resource gives pre- and in-service FL/L2 teachers the tools and confidence to understand and implement these principles in the classroom...Loe edasi...
This collection introduces an innovative micro-analytical approach to interaction management in remote interpreting, offering new insights into our understanding of the conversational dynamics of remote dialogue interpreting....Loe edasi...
This collection calls greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds....Loe edasi...
Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Their book proposes a framework for exploring sociopragmatic phenomena, building on the key sociopragmati...Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth look at pragmatic development by second language learners of French through their production of French discourse markers. It showcases a holistic production-focused approach designed to provide a broad picture of learn...Loe edasi...
This book offers fifty short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each addresses a paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged in the field, tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive scien...Loe edasi...
Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication....Loe edasi...
This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rigorous approach in distinguishing between central irony, non-central ironies, and non-ironies and highl...Loe edasi...
This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and rea...Loe edasi...
This handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture....Loe edasi...
This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting, one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, a...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Featuring original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research, this is an essential te...Loe edasi...
Interaction in Mandarin Chinese and English as a Multilingua Franca: Context, Practice, and Perception proposes a model of context, practice, and perception...Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research in three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deix...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them....Loe edasi...
Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure....Loe edasi...
Korangy and Sharifians groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wher...Loe edasi...
This book examines the use and interpretation of language and communication in digitally mediated contexts. It is an essential guide to the pragmatics of online discourse and behaviour for everyone working in the areas of digital pragmatics, languag...Loe edasi...
This edited volume provides detailed analyses of multifunctional forms in English and hands-on approaches to exemplifying relevant implications and useful applications to language and literacy educators in TESOL, ESL/EFL/EAL, academic literacies and...Loe edasi...
This collection extends the conversation beginning with Gail Jeffersons seminal 1996 article, On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk, linking the poetics of ordinary talk with the work of poets to bring together critical perspectives on new data from tal...Loe edasi...
This study uses the multimodal corpus approach to examine how speakers use multiple devices to perform illocutionary acts and express illocutionary forces. The author combines qualitative and quantitative methods to show that illocutionary forces ar...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of mitigation in speech in English and Spanish, exploring how it is defined and theorized and the various linguistic features employed to soften or downgrade the impact of a particular message across a...Loe edasi...
Pragmatic ability is crucial for L2 learners to communicate appropriately and effectively. Mainly referring to pragmatics of English, with relevant examples from multiple languages, it is an invaluable resource for practicing teachers, graduates and...Loe edasi...
An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. This book is a language teachers guide that focuses on how to teach sociall...Loe edasi...
The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive normsthe norms governing our thought and talkare profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure of social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and...Loe edasi...
This innovative book contributes to a paradigm shift in the study of creole languages, forging new empirical frameworks for understanding language and culture in sociohistorical contact....Loe edasi...
This title explores philosophical aspects of the relationship between language and being. Drawing on western classical works and day-to-day examples from the Chinese context, the author argues that man lives within language, has to live within langu...Loe edasi...
Pragmatic Variation in Service Encounter Interactions across the Spanish-Speaking World expands the study of service encounter interactions into new face-to-face and digital contexts and new (sub)varieties of Spanish....Loe edasi...
This volume presents an innovative approach to understanding the language socialization process of second language learners in study abroad programs, focusing on the case of study abroad programs in Japan....Loe edasi...
Although Japanese language is one of the most quoted examples in politeness research, extant publications focus on particular areas of politeness, and very few of them enquire into varied aspects of Japanese politeness. In this book, Yasuko Obana p...Loe edasi...
This collection offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped....Loe edasi...
This book presents a coherent picture of quotation studies and argues that the semantic content of quotation amounts to its contribution to the intuitive truth conditional content of the quotational utterance via two modes of presentation, which are...Loe edasi...
Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. This is key reading for all researchers and scholars worki...Loe edasi...
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor....Loe edasi...
Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speec...Loe edasi...
Centring on words which connect vocabulary and semantic morphemes, this book makes a systemic and in-depth analysis on the study of modern Chinese lexicology. It is worth noting that this research clarifies many confusing concepts and is one of th...Loe edasi...
This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolans pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field...Loe edasi...
In this book, the important role of linguistic reflexivity to our everyday communicational practices and to the study of language is explored in theory and practice....Loe edasi...
