Orality
Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and...
EAN: 9781403934048
Pragmatics
This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the...
EAN: 9781403986986
Communicating Rights
Organizations acting on behalf of society are expected to act fairly, explaining themselves and...
EAN: 9780230013315
Discursive Construction of History
How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? This...
EAN: 9780230013230
Contrastive Analysis in Language
This is a book about comparison in linguistics in general, rather than 'contrastive analysis' as...
EAN: 9781403917249
Hybrid Theory of Metaphor
A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the...
EAN: 9780230227934
Academic Evaluation
This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book...
EAN: 9780230224339
Cognitive Linguistics and Language Teaching
This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to...
EAN: 9780230537392
Vague Language Explored
Vague language ('bags of time', 'doing stuff', 'and all that') is an aspect of communicative...
EAN: 9781403988171
Children's Voices
Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-olds use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about...
EAN: 9781403933317
Pragmatics
This volume addresses issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory. Among the...
EAN: 9781403986993
Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence
This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the...
EAN: 9781403985330
Language of Police Interviewing
Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being...
EAN: 9781403917263
Rhetoric of Religious Cults
First outlining a rhetorical framework, which encompasses contemporary discourse analysis, the...
EAN: 9781403942852
Experimental Pragmatics
How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and...
EAN: 9781403903518
Language in the Legal Process
Linguists and lawyers from a range of countries and legal systems explore the language of the law...
EAN: 9781403933881
Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin
Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in twentieth-century intellectual...
EAN: 9780333556320
Mediations between Nature and Culture
This book explores the mediatory competence of human communication. By analyzing and enacting...
EAN: 9781793640307
Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis
This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion...
EAN: 9780192865045
Limits of Expression
Exploring 'the prison house of language', this book radically alters our view of the interplay...
EAN: 9781108418669
Words and Meaning in Metasemantics
In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiana argues that language meaning...
EAN: 9781793609465
Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
The first comprehensive overview of the structure of modern Germanic languages. Written by a team...
EAN: 9781108421867
Language of Inequality in the News
Aimed at students of applied linguistics, English language, media studies and journalism, this...
EAN: 9781108474337
