Semantics books

Updating the already well-established conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this book will appeal to researchers in...  Read More >>

Brings together concepts of meaning and communication across a range of subject areas such as education, media studies,...  Read More >>

Combining theories from communication studies and psycholinguistics, this pioneering book explains how neurology,...  Read More >>

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This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as...  Read More >>

"""Presents translated primary sources, with scholarly commentary, on rhetorical instruction and rhetorical practices...  Read More >>

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This book brings together the concepts of meaning and communication across a range of areas: education, media studies,...  Read More >>

This book is a study of instructional interaction in driving lessons. Drawing on the methodology of Conversation...  Read More >>

This book presents a new analysis of both the German impersonal passive and the actional passive, in general. The...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a critical survey of L2 pragmatics, collecting...  Read More >>

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information.  Read More >>

This two-volume book follows the guiding principle of a linguistic social history of Nazism. The volume not only...  Read More >>

This two-volume book follows the guiding principle of a linguistic social history of Nazism. The volume not only...  Read More >>

Semantics of Chinese Questions is the first major study of Chinese questions, especially wh-questions, within the...  Read More >>

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of...  Read More >>

Focussing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifier and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of the...  Read More >>

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Describes the linguistic cues and patterns in the discursive representation of transgender identities in the press....  Read More >>

This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness...  Read More >>

Examines counterstories where queer, trans, and disabled Asian Americans recover and reimagine shared histories,...  Read More >>

This book provides a full linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language, exploring perspectives from semantics,...  Read More >>

Examines counterstories where queer, trans, and disabled Asian Americans recover and reimagine shared histories,...  Read More >>