Analyzing Institutionalized Interactions Through Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Theory
Edited by Corina Andone and Menno H. Reijven
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 15:2 (2026) v, 108 pp.
BISAC SubjectsLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.
Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson
Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell
Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 281 pp.
Dialogicity in Framing Environmental Discourse
Edited by Marina Bondi and Judith Turnbull
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 15:1 (2025) v, 201 pp.
Future Perspectives in Medical Argumentation
Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:3 (2025) v, 110 pp.
The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues
Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco Carrión
This book comprehends a unique collection of articles on the rhetorical tools, with special reference to both discursive and verbo-visual metaphor. It focuses on monomodal and multimodal figurative representations in wine discourse, in political discourse, and in the sports media. Moreover, it… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 20] 2025. vi, 198 pp.
Storytelling, Identity Formation, and Resistance in Indigenous Cultures in Canada and the United States
Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi
Storytelling is a means of fostering a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity. Through stories, Indigenous peoples understand and interpret the world, and learn how to survive in spite of external forces such as colonialism. Storytelling has been studied by many scholars across myriad… read more[Studies in Narrative, 28] 2025. xiii, 250 pp.
Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
Edited by Michael Burke and Joanna Gavins
This volume of stylistic scholarship is dedicated to the memory of one of the most inspirational and kindest stylistics scholars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Verdonk was Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam and one of the founding members… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 44] 2025. vi, 190 pp.
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.
Multimodal Argumentation: Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024)
Edited by Hartmut Stöckl and Assimakis Tseronis
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices
Edited by Anna Tereszkiewicz and Magdalena Szczyrbak
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 14:2 (2024) vi, 200 pp.
Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective
Edited by Chiara Degano, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli
The volume aims to advance understanding of argumentative practices in different communicative contexts, with special regard for those with heightened public resonance: politics, media, and public debate in general. Furthermore, it intends to explore the linguistic aspects of argumentation,… read more[Argumentation in Context, 22] 2024. ix, 268 pp.
(Inter)Cultural Dialogues
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.
Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts
Edited by Fabrizio Macagno and Lucia Salvato
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 12:1 (2023) v, 134 pp.
Fictive questions in the Zhuangzi: A cognitive rhetorical study
Mingjian Xiang
Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical Chinese tradition. Such… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 18] 2023. xiii, 206 pp.
Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice
Edited by Alain Létourneau, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:2 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Responding to Questions at Press Conferences: Confrontational maneuvering by Chinese spokespersons
Peng Wu
Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China’s diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists’ questions and how this confrontational… read more[Argumentation in Context, 21] 2023. xiv, 188 pp.
Argumentation in European Politics
Edited by Corina Andone and Bart Garssen
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:1 (2022) v, 155 pp.
Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse
Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:2 (2022) v, 163 pp.
When Dialogue Fails
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022) v, 168 pp.
Argumentative Style
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:1 (2021) v, 143 pp.
Dialogic Matters: Interrelating Dialogue, the Material, and Social Change
Edited by Theresa Castor
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 11:1 (2021) v, 170 pp.
Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions
Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020) v, 166 pp.
Dialogue and Ways of Relating
Edited by Huey-Rong Chen
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 10:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
Argumentation in Actual Practice contains a collection of topical studies about argumentative discourse in context written by argumentation scholars from a diversity of academic backgrounds. Some contributions provide general perspectives, other contributions deal with specific issues, particular… read more[Argumentation in Context, 17] 2019. xiv, 336 pp.
Dialogue in institutional settings
Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019) v, 190 pp.
Environmental Argumentation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019) v, 171 pp.
Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon
Orsolya Putz
Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory, as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction, by studying the… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 11] 2019. xvii, 276 pp.
Storytelling in the Digital World
Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino
Storytelling in the Digital World explores new, emerging narrative practices as they are enacted on digital platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Contributors’ online ethnographies investigate a wide range of themes including the nature of processes of transformation and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 104] 2019. v, 131 pp.
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
Edited by Paul Simpson
This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar – a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 34] 2019. ix, 205 pp.
Argumentation and Patient Centered Care
Edited by Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Roosmaryn Pilgram and Nanon Labrie
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 7:2 (2018) vi, 132 pp.
Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective
Edited by Peng Wu and Xu Cihua
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:3 (2017) vi, 126 pp.
Context-dependency of Argumentative Patterns
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:1 (2017) v, 104 pp.
Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere
Edited by Corina Andone and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 (2016) v, 111 pp.
Exploring Language Aggression against Women
Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch
Exploring Language Aggression against Women presents a collection of systematic studies that delve into the critical role of language in constructing violence, creating inequality, and justifying discrimination against women. Drawing on a range of discourse analytic methods, this volume subjects to… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 86] 2016. v, 159 pp.
Writing in interaction
Edited by Lorenza Mondada
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 6:1 (2016) v, 204 pp.
Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 5:1 (2015) v, 193 pp.
Follow-ups in Political Discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains
Edited by Elda Weizman and Anita Fetzer
This book explores the various forms and functions of follow-ups in a range of political speech events. Follow-ups are conceptualized as communicative acts, in and through which a prior communicative act is accepted, challenged, or otherwise negotiated by ratified participants in the exchange or by… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 60] 2015. xix, 265 pp.
Interpersonal Argumentation
Edited by Harry Weger, Jr
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:1 (2015) v, 133 pp.
The Power of Satire
Edited by Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw
Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire, it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 2] 2015. xiii, 277 pp.
Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice contains a selection of papers reflecting upon the use of argumentation in real life contexts. The first five sections are devoted to argumentation in a specific institutional context: scientific controversies, argumentation in politics, argumentation in a… read more[Argumentation in Context, 9] 2015. ix, 343 pp.
Argumentation in the Media
Edited by Darrin Hicks
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:1 (2014) v, 101 pp.
Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue
Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.
Corporate Argumentation in Takeover Bids
Rudi Palmieri
This volume systematically investigates the role of argumentation in takeover bids. The announcement of these financial proposals triggers an argumentative situation, in which both the economic desirability and the social acceptability of the deal become argumentative issues for different classes… read more[Argumentation in Context, 8] 2014. xii, 274 pp.
Let's talk politics: New essays on deliberative rhetoric
Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp
In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political… read more[Argumentation in Context, 6] 2014. viii, 208 pp.
Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated
Edited by Roger D. Sell
How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the people who respond to them is fundamentally egalitarian. This is the insight explored by members of the Åbo literary communication network, who in this new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 22] 2014. xv, 274 pp.
Exploring Argumentative Contexts
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the… read more[Argumentation in Context, 4] 2012. xx, 398 pp.
The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric: The Aristotelian Tradition
Marta Spranzi
This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's Topics, its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus… read more[Controversies, 9] 2011. xii, 239 pp.
Controversy Spaces: A model of scientific and philosophical change
Edited by Oscar Nudler
The notion of controversy space is the key element of the new model of scientific and philosophical change introduced in this book. Devised as an alternative to classical models, the model of Controversy Spaces is a heuristic tool for the reconstruction of processes of conceptual change in the… read more[Controversies, 10] 2011. vi, 187 pp.
Signergy
Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays
Hugo Bowles
How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue.… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 8] 2010. ix, 216 pp.
Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse: Extending the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation
Frans H. van Eemeren
In Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Frans H. van Eemeren brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argumentation by introducing the concept of strategic maneuvering. Strategic maneuvering refers to the arguer’s continual efforts to reconcile aiming for… read more[Argumentation in Context, 2] 2010. xii, 308 pp.
Arab News and Conflict: A multidisciplinary discourse study
Samia Bazzi
The Arab-Israeli struggle is not only a struggle over land, but a struggle over language representations. Arab reporters as well as politicians believe that their political discourses about the Middle East conflict are objective, accurate, and credible. Arab News and Conflict critically examines… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 34] 2009. xiv, 222 pp.
Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if… read more[Argumentation in Context, 1] 2009. x, 305 pp.
Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6] 2009. xi, 212 pp.
New Approaches in Text Linguistics
Edited by Sylvie Mellet and Dominique Longrée
Over the last years, research in text linguistics has yielded insights into different levels of methodological reflection and practice, resulting in new issues for investigation. On the one hand, the development of computerized corpora and “hypertextual” reading has reminded researchers that the… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 23] 2009. 214 pp.
Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two… read more[Controversies, 6] 2008. xiii, 278 pp.
Reconciliation Discourse: The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Annelies Verdoolaege
This volume is a research monograph analysing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from an ethnographic/linguistic point of view. The central proposition of this book is that the TRC can be regarded as a mechanism that leads to the hegemony of specific discourses, thus… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 27] 2008. xiii, 238 pp.
Shaping Minds: A discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature
Guy Ramsay
Mental illness is an increasing concern of government health services across the globe. It is timely, therefore, that community education about mental illness is subject to discourse analysis. Shaping Minds explores how the psychoeducational message is presented to Chinese-speaking audiences in… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 32] 2008. ix, 149 pp.
Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
Douglas N. Walton
Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects… read more[Controversies, 5] 2007. xviii, 308 pp.
Discourse and Human Rights Violations
Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts. It is a text that belongs… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 5] 2007. x, 142 pp.
Discourse, War and Terrorism
Edited by Adam Hodges and Chad Nilep
Discourse since September 11, 2001 has constrained and shaped public discussion and debate surrounding terrorism worldwide. Social actors in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere employ the language of the “war on terror” to explain, react to, justify and understand a broad… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 24] 2007. ix, 248 pp.
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy
Terry Walker
This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 158] 2007. xx, 339 pp.
Traditions of Controversy
Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Han-liang Chang
Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes – in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops – a tradition.… read more[Controversies, 4] 2007. xvi, 310 pp.