Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversationa...

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control.

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control.

This volume deals with the interplay between personal identity and language, with a special focus on interactions involving political correctness, ...

Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twen...

Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies, rhetorical criti...

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book PrizeThis book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolit...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds ...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they empl...

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with div...

Youth spoken word poetry groups are on the rise in the United States, offering safe spaces for young people to write and perform. These diverse gro...

Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers global, comparative insights ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2023, held in Singapore, during May 1921, 20...

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhet...

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him ...

Guía práctica de pragmática del español es un texto introductorio en español. Ofrece introducciones accesibles a una importante variedad de teorías...

How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polar...