Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity
?This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating...
EAN: 9781349680108
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
EAN: 9789813299825
From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild
This volume comprises a selection of contributions to the theorizing about argumentation that...
EAN: 9783030283667
Functional Approach to Professional Discourse Exploration in Linguistics
This book presents research into various types of professional discourse through the prism of the...
EAN: 9789813291027
Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure
This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of...
EAN: 9783030085414
Political Narrations
This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper...
EAN: 9783030099886
Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative...
EAN: 9783662586037
Language of Protest
Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model...
EAN: 9783030084516
Defining ‘Eastern Europe’
This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression ‘Eastern Europe’ in...
EAN: 9783030084424
Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages
Building on the previous book on indirect reports in this series, this volume adds an empirical...
EAN: 9783030087814
Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution
This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the...
EAN: 9789811343483
Logic of Sortals
In this monograph, different formal logics for sortal concepts and sortal-related logical notions...
EAN: 9783030182809
Difficulty in Poetry
This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is...
EAN: 9783030072834
Researching and Teaching Second Language Speech Acts in the Chinese Context
It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are...
EAN: 9789811342882
Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective
This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal...
EAN: 9783030072438
Adam Smith’s Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair
EAN: 9783030075255
From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct
This book offers new perspectives on the study of Chinese lexical semantics, as well as discourse...
EAN: 9789813292420
Eye-Tracking Study of Equivalent Effect in Translation
This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading...
EAN: 9783030557683
Tropological Thought and Action
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique...
EAN: 9781800732728
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
Takes on the task of reconstructing the way southern rhetoric has been critiqued within the...
EAN: 9781496836151
Modular Design of Grammar
This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in...
EAN: 9780192844842
Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory
This volume examines the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in...
EAN: 9780192898951
