SubjectsLinguistics / Discourse studies

Book series

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Argumentation in Context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

ISSN 1877-6884
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Controversies

Ethics and Interdisciplinarity

Edited by Giovanni Scarafile

ISSN 1574-1583
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Critical Theory

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language, Discourse and Ideology

Edited by Iris M. Zavala and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

ISSN 0920-3060
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Dialogue Studies

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 1875-1792
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Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

General Editor: Jo Angouri and Johann Wolfgang Unger

ISSN 1569-9463
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Document Design Companion Series

Edited by Jan Renkema, Maria Laura Pardo and Ruth Wodak

ISSN 1568-1963
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ISSN 2210-7029
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ISSN 2210-4836
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Multilingualism and Diversity Management

Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi

ISSN 2210-7010
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Pragmatics & Beyond

Edited by Herman Parret and Jef Verschueren

ISSN 0166-6258
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Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series

Edited by Herman Parret and Jacob L. Mey

ISSN 0920-3079
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Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Edited by Miriam A. Locher

ISSN 0922-842X
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ISSN 1879-5382
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Studies in Discourse and Grammar

Edited by Sandra A. Thompson

ISSN 0928-8929
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Studies in Language and Social Interaction

Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

ISSN 1879-3983
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Studies in Narrative

Edited by Martin Dege

ISSN 1568-2706
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Studies in Written Language and Literacy

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Paul van den Broek

ISSN 0929-7324
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Topics in Address Research

Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat

ISSN 2405-9269

Journals

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Applied Pragmatics

Edited by Zia Tajeddin and Naoko Taguchi

ISSN 2589-109X | E‑ISSN 2589‑1103
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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Peter Crosthwaite

ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
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Chinese Language and Discourse

An International and Interdisciplinary Journal

Edited by Xiaoting Li, K.K. Luke, Hongyin Tao and Li Wei

ISSN 1877-7031 | E‑ISSN 1877‑8798
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Document Design

Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Organizational Communication

General Editor: Jan Renkema

ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722
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Functions of Language

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elena Smirnova and Sumin Zhao

ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765
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IPrA Papers in Pragmatics

Edited by Alessandro Duranti and Bambi B. Schieffelin

ISSN 2406-419X | E‑ISSN 2406‑4246
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Information Design Journal

Edited by Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward

ISSN 0142-5471 | E‑ISSN 1569‑979X
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Interactional Linguistics

Edited by Ilana Mushin and Simona Pekarek Doehler

ISSN 2666-4224 | E‑ISSN 2666‑4232
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Internet Pragmatics

Edited by Chaoqun Xie and Francisco Yus

ISSN 2542-3851 | E‑ISSN 2542‑386X
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Journal of Argumentation in Context

Edited by Nanon Labrie and Menno H. Reijven

ISSN 2211-4742 | E‑ISSN 2211‑4750
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Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes

Edited by Pejman Habibie and Sue Starfield

ISSN 2590-0994 | E‑ISSN 2590‑1001
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Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Edited by Daniela Landert

ISSN 1566-5852 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9854
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Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou

ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280
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Journal of Language and Politics

Edited by Michał Krzyżanowski

ISSN 1569-2159 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9862
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Journal of Language and Pop Culture

Edited by Valentin Werner, Paul Flanagan and Mie Hiramoto

ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798
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Journal of Language and Sexuality

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

ISSN 2211-3770 | E‑ISSN 2211‑3789
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Language and Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127
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Language, Culture and Society

General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
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Metaphor and the Social World

Edited by Susan Nacey, Dennis Tay and Sarah Turner

ISSN 2210-4070 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4097
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Narrative Inquiry

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935
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Pragmatics

Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Edited by Helmut Gruber

ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
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Pragmatics & Cognition

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
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Pragmatics and Society

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
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Register Studies

Edited by Jesse Egbert and Bethany Gray

ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
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Scientific Study of Literature

Edited by David I. Hanauer

ISSN 2210-4372 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4380
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Spanish in Context

Edited by Francisco Moreno-Fernández

ISSN 1571-0718 | E‑ISSN 1571‑0726
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The Agenda Setting Journal

Theory, Practice, Critique

Edited by Chris J. Vargo

ISSN 2452-0063 | E‑ISSN 2452‑0071
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Translation Spaces

A multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual journal of translation

Edited by Joke Daems, Dorothy Kenny and Joss Moorkens

ISSN 2211-3711 | E‑ISSN 2211‑372X
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Written Language & Literacy

General Editor: Dorit Ravid

ISSN 1387-6732 | E‑ISSN 1570‑6001
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Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more
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Cross-linguistic Register Variation

Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
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Discourses of Discrimination: Language aggression in the construction of otherness

Edited by Angeliki Alvanoudi and Marianthi Georgalidou

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 14:1 (2026) v, 145 pp.
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Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] 2026. vi, 323 pp.
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Discourses on Racism and Resilience: Between power and resistance

Edited by Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen and Claes Tängh Wrangel

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 25:2 (2026) v, 120 pp.
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Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar

Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 23] 2026. x, 407 pp.
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Formulaic Humor and Humorous Formulae in Fictional Telecinematic Dialogue

Monika Kirner-Ludwig

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 13] 2026. xxxi, 313 pp. + index
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Labeling in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Edited by Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 15:1 (2026) v, 136 pp.
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Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse

Anders Pettersson

Literature as Experience-Inviting Discourse presents a general perspective on the art of literature, starting from the questions of what literature is, how it works, and what it is for. It is a main theme in the book that what we typically call literature is written to be read and freely… read more
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Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges

Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco

Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.
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Patterns of Context: Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation

Edited by Elke Diedrichsen and Frank Liedtke

Human language in its performances is not to be considered without taking into account the environment in which it takes place, i.e. its physical, social, or cultural setting. A description of the regularity or pattern driven character of this relationship is, however, still a desideratum for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 356] 2026. vi, 295 pp. + index
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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.
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Principles of New Science: Dialogue in the stream of life

Edda Weigand

This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 35] 2026. xiii, 169 pp. + index | Open Access logo open access
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Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.
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Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more
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Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction

Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna

Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.
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Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions

Edited by Agnese Sampietro and Carmen Pérez-Sabater

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 8:2 (2025) v, 213 pp.
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COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more
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Conflict Talk in Spanish Digital Interactions

Edited by Lucía Fernández-Amaya

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 13:1 (2025) v, 153 pp.
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Cultural Conceptualizations of the SELF in Hong Kong English

Denisa Latić

This monograph offers a cultural-cognitive approach to the study of identity construction at a cultural group level and how it patterns language, exemplified with Hong Kong English. For this, cultural values, political ideology, language models, and reported self- and other-perception as… read more
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Cultural Turns in Information Design I

Edited by Juhri Selamet and Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward

Special issue of Information Design Journal 30:1 (2025) 96 pp.
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Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics

Pierfranca Forchini

This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.
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Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts, Maximilian Grönegräs and Yannis Stavrakakis

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 (2025) vi, 175 pp.
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Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy

Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 15:2 (2025) vi, 151 pp.
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Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities

Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić

This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model, which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms, though not necessarily… read more
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Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis

Edited by Simon Borchmann, Anne H. Fabricius and Ida Klitgård

This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral, one-to-one relationship between words and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] 2025. v, 279 pp.
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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.
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Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

Edited by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen and Søren Sandager Sørensen

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction. The volume combines two traditions in language studies that have hitherto been separate: Interactional Linguistics,… read more
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The Grammar of Interaction: Epistemicity, information management and discourse in language use

Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez

This volume deals with the relations between grammar and interaction from different perspectives, with the aim of unraveling the way in which a language — through the different forms of discourse from which it emerges — reflects certain social and community-based schemas; that is, how language… read more
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 46] 2025. xix, 348 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment

Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.
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Identity Perspectives from Peripheries

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman

Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods, new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] 2025. vii, 295 pp.
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Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units

Vassiliki Geka

This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 39] 2025. xxvi, 240 pp.
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Instructing Bodies

Edited by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter and Jan Lindström

Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 5:1/2 (2025) v, 228 pp.
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La Percepción de las Variedades Cultas del Español en el S. XXI

Edited by Cristina Illamola and Mar Forment Fernández

Special issue of Spanish in Context 22:1 (2025) vi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.
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Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English

Hang Su

This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. xxii, 224 pp.
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The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door

Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
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Male Separatism: Discourse, ideology, and argumentation

Jessica Aiston

This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociology
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Mobile Eye Tracking: New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction

Edited by Elisabeth Zima and Anja Stukenbrock

Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 351] 2025. vi, 316 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Edited by Claudia Claridge

This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings,… read more
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Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico

Editado por Manuela Álvarez Jurado y Gisella Policastro Ponce

El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario, que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas, sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila un total de quince investigaciones que… read more
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The Person in Politics: Pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns

Lilla Petronella Szabó

Personalization has become a central feature of political communication. Politicians appear on late-night talk shows, smile from billboards, and post family photos on social media – placing themselves at the heart of public discourse. As individual personalities take center stage, abstract… read more
Other subjects Political science | Pragmatics
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Register and Professional Discourse

Edited by Shelley Staples and Gavin Brookes

Special issue of Register Studies 7:1 (2025) v, 160 pp.
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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.
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Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings

Edited by Giulio Scivoletto and Ryo Takamura

This is the first comprehensive volume to explore the tendency from ‘intersubjective’ to ‘textual’ functions in semantic-pragmatic change. It challenges the influential hypothesis based on the pioneering works by Traugott, i.e. the unidirectionality of change from objective to subjective and then… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 353] 2025. vi, 288 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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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.
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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.
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Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy

Giorgia Mannaioli

The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 350] 2025. ix, 272 pp.
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Writing/Reading Interface

Edited by Terry Joyce and Constanze Weth

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 28:1 (2025) v, 171 pp.
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‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.
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(Non)referentiality in Conversation

Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 344] 2024. v, 209 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction

Edited by Valeria Sinkeviciute

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 7:1 (2024) v, 191 pp.
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The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration

Łukasz Zarzycki

Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words… read more
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Applied Narratology

Edited by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 34:2 (2024) v, 199 pp.
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Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools

Nicola Nasi

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor,… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.
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Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials

Edited by Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2 (2024) vi, 177 pp.
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The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] 2024. vii, 251 pp.
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Culturas Juveniles, Contracultura y Procesos de Difusión en el Español Coloquial

Edited by Ana Llopis Cardona

Special issue of Spanish in Context 21:1 (2024) v, 218 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse

Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 341] 2024. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 12] 2024. xi, 264 pp.
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The Functions of Evidentiality

Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq

Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment

Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] 2024. xiii, 273 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] 2024. vi, 306 pp.
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Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] 2024. vi, 292 pp.
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Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] 2024. vi, 311 pp.
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Media as Procedures of Communication

Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider

The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 348] 2024. vi, 308 pp.
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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.
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Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization

Edited by Rodrigo Cordero and Raimundo Frei

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:5 (2024) vi, 149 pp.
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New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research

Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 36] 2024. vii, 428 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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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.
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Pragmatic perspectives on disagreement

Edited by Jennifer Schumann and Steve Oswald

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 12:1 (2024) v, 138 pp.
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Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 15:1 (2024) vi, 213 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] 2024. viii, 268 pp.
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Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses

Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 342] 2024. v, 195 pp.
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The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.
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Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions

Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik

This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] 2024. ix, 207 pp.
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Transformative Reading

Olivia Fialho

Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
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Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction

Edited by Minna Ruokonen, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino

Special issue of Translation Spaces 13:1 (2024) v, 169 pp.
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Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi

This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.
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Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach

Larissa Goulart

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
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The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles

Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow

This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational patterns of mechanical engineering… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 107] 2023. xiii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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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.
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Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece

Dimitris Serafis

This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple ‘crises’ in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to… read more
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Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments

Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska and Manuel Padilla Cruz

Special issue of Pragmatics 33:3 (2023) v, 192 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Copulas in Spanish and Beyond

Edited by Silvia Gumiel-Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

Special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope

Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.
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Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies

Edited by Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen

The present volume explores the meeting ground between Critical Discourse Studies and Cultural Linguistics. The contributions investigate culture-specific conceptualisations, ways of framing and conceptual metaphors in political discourse, as well as cultural models, cultural stereotypes and… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociology
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Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change

Edited by Franzisca Weder

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 (2023) vi, 202 pp.
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Current challenges in metaphor research

Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1 (2023) vi, 143 pp.
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Disability in Dialogue

Edited by Jessica M.F. Hughes and Mariaelena Bartesaghi

What would it mean to invite disability into dialogue? Disability in Dialogue attunes us to the dialogues of and about disability. In the pages of this book, we ask readers to consider the dialogic constitution of disability and to imagine its reformulation. We find the voices, bodies, social… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 33] 2023. x, 214 pp.
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Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Edited by Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 227] 2023. vi, 439 pp.
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Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data,… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.
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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.
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 26] 2023. xiii, 187 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Hate Speech in Online Media

Edited by Anton Granvik, Mélanie Buchart and Hartmut Lenk

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 6:2 (2023) v, 149 pp.
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Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development

Edited by Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley

Special issue of Translation Spaces 12:2 (2023) v, 181 pp.
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It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research

Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 5] 2023. vi, 432 pp.
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L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics.… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 58] 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
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Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media

Monika Bednarek

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 pp.
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Lexical semantics towards the big-data era

Edited by Meichun Liu and Chunyu Kit

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 14:1 (2023) v, 207 pp.
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Manufacturing Knowledge

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.
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Meaning in Interaction: Studies in memory of Jack Bilmes

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Elwys De Stefani

Special issue of Interactional Linguistics 3:1/2 (2023) v, 177 pp.
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Memory and Narrative

Edited by Alma Jeftic, Thomas Van de Putte and Johana Wyss

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 33:2 (2023) v, 172 pp.
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Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.
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On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems

Edited by David F. Mora-Marín and Lynne Cahill

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
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Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023) vi, 216 pp.
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The Populist Radical Right Beyond Europe

Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Lisa Zanotti

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:3 (2023) v, 130 pp.
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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.
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A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding

Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi

This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] 2023. vi, 397 pp.
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Pragmatics and Translation

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation, papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] 2023. vii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 335] 2023. vi, 239 pp.
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Reconnecting Form and Meaning: In honour of Kristin Davidse

Edited by Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière, William B. McGregor and An Van linden

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular,… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 230] 2023. vii, 305 pp.
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Reference: From conventions to pragmatics

Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin

This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.
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Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss

The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies… read more
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Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts

Edited by Galina B. Bolden, John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

This book is about one of the most fundamental action sequences found across human societies and socio-cultural contexts: polar questions and their responses. Question–answer sequences are among the most basic building blocks for sequences of action in interaction and are ubiquitous among the… read more
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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.
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Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance

Irina T. Pandarova

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 334] 2023. ix, 254 pp.
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Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman

The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] 2023. vii, 260 pp.
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Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Gerard J. Steen

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously… read more
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Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse

Edited by Majid KhosraviNik

Social Media and Society brings together a range of scholars working at the intersection of discourse studies, digital media, and society. It is meant to respond to changes in discourse technologies, i.e. the techno-discursive dynamic of social media discourses. The book critically engages with the… read more
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The Sociophonetics of Dublin English: Phonetic realisation and sociopragmatic variation

Marion Schulte

The Sociophonetics of Dublin English shows how social inequalities and language are connected by the stances speakers take in interaction. It is based on an instrumental phonetic analysis of recorded interviews and broadcasting data and a detailed qualitative account of the same data as well as the… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 30] 2023. xii, 172 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse

Lukas Müller

This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of tension between temporal quantification and temporal reference. Based on this approach, it presents the first… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 279] 2023. xviii, 276 pp.
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Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections

Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner

This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. read more
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(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis

Edited by Franco Zappettini and Samuel Bennett

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 (2022) v, 199 pp.
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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.
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Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal and Peng Wu

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 20] 2022. x, 332 pp.
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Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.
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Conspiracy Theory Discourses

Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola

Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the political life of many nations is increasing. Conspiracy Theory Discourses bridges… read more
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Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen

The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
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Dialogicity in Political Discourse

Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.
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Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects

Edited by Xabier Artiagoitia, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte

Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well, and provides evidence for their nature… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 276] 2022. vi, 258 pp.
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Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
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The Discourse of Terrorism

Edited by Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio and Juan L. Castro

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:3 (2022) vi, 202 pp.
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Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022) iii, 213 pp.
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English Rock and Pop Performances: A sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes

Lisa Jansen

This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience, British and American students’ perceptions of English rock and pop… read more
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Formality and Informality in Online Performances

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022) v, 195 pp.
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Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean

Susanne Mühleisen

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G67] 2022. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Pragmatics
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment

Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] 2022. xiii, 256 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] 2022. xiii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Second edition

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, M2] 2022. xxi, 1882 pp. (2 vols.)
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy: Towards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization

Thomas Jacobs

Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe tackled this puzzle in ground-breaking fashion, by… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociology
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Information Visualization

Edited by Isabel Meirelles, Marian Dörk and Yanni Loukissas

Special issue of Information Design Journal 27:1 (2022) ii, 140 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Klaus-Uwe Panther

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive… read more
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4] 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.
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Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests

Edited by Guofeng Wang and Ming Liu

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 (2022) vi, 189 pp.
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Media Language and Discourse in Cultural China

Edited by Doreen D. Wu, Ming Liu and David C.S. Li

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 13:1 (2022) v, 165 pp.
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Methodological Issues in Experimental Research in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility

Edited by Gian Maria Greco, Anna Jankowska and Agnieszka Szarkowska

Special issue of Translation Spaces 11:1 (2022) v, 156 pp.
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Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account

Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 12] 2022. ix, 173 pp.
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The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor, advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic, face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor, smiling,… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. xix, 235 pp.
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Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 32:1 (2022) vi, 243 pp.
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Nonbinary pronouns as a site of advocacy in research and teaching

Edited by Lex Konnelly, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Lee Airton

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:2 (2022) vi, 153 pp.
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A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language: Cofluencies as sites of accountability, sequentiality, and multimodality

Maximiliane Frobenius

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 332] 2022. ix, 260 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

What is a meme? What is in a meme? What does ‘living in/with memes’ actually mean? What do memes mean to human beings dwelling in a life-world at once connected and fragmented by the internet and social media? Answers to and ways of answering these and other meme questions that arise in social… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 120] 2022. v, 183 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Register and social media

Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve

Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.
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Relationships in Organized Helping: Analyzing interaction in psychotherapy, medical encounters, coaching and in social media

Edited by Claudio Scarvaglieri, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy

This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy, coaching, doctor-patient interaction, and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 331] 2022. vi, 331 pp.
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Science Communication in Times of Crisis

Edited by Pascal Hohaus

This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID-19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in the context of science scepticism), and climate change (e.g.… read more
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Spelling Acquisition in Cross-linguistic Settings

Edited by Susie Russak and Elena Zaretsky

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 25:1 (2022) v, 132 pp.
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Time Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity

Edited by Anna Piata, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión

In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system, how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 75] 2022. viii, 245 pp.
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When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure

Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] 2022. vi, 307 pp.
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Young researchers in action

Edited by Angeliki Tzanne

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:1 (2022) vi, 239 pp.
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10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies

Edited by William L. Leap and Heiko Motschenbacher

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1 (2021) v, 96 pp.
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The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach

Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland

This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities. Through the lens of an interactionist and dialogical… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 28] 2021. xix, 372 pp.
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Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters

Agnese Bresin

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.
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Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] 2021. vii, 348 pp.
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Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding clinical argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how… read more
[Not in series, 235] 2021. x, 155 pp.
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An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions

Rebecca G. Schär

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in argumentative discussions between young children (aged 2 to 6 years)… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 19] 2021. xv, 160 pp.
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Argumentative Style

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:1 (2021) v, 143 pp.
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Beyond Meaning

Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 324] 2021. vi, 200 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French: From syntax to lexis and discourse

Maïté Dupont

Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers:… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 99] 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
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Critical perspectives on gender, politics and violence

Edited by Eleonora Esposito

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:1 (2021) v, 183 pp.
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Degrees of European Belonging: The fuzzy areas between us and them

Élisabeth Le

While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European belonging as it is represented in the French elite daily, Le Monde.… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociology
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Discourse Studies in Public Communication

Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate… read more
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Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 (2021) vi, 195 pp.
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Discourses of Fake News

Edited by Scott Wright

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 (2021) vi, 183 pp.
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Diversity in Writing Systems: Embracing multiple perspectives

Edited by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan and Anna P. Judson

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 24:2 (2021) v, 169 pp.
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Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters written by an international array of scholars, the present volume is dedicated to furthering the study of the growing field of L2 email… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 328] 2021. vii, 258 pp.
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Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage

Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva

Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. xii, 442 pp.
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Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Jonathan Culpeper

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2 (2021) v, 143 pp.
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History, Discourse, and Policy in Modern Turkey

Alper Çakmak

Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics. It offers an… read more
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How Emotions Are Made in Talk

Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall

How Emotions Are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis applied to a range of settings including… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] 2021. xvii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociology
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Humour in Spanish Context

Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev

Special issue of Spanish in Context 18:1 (2021) v, 159 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction

Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] 2021. vi, 437 pp.
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The Joint Production of Conversational Turns

Edited by K.K. Luke and Mei Fang

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 12:1 (2021) v, 134 pp.
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Language and Social Interaction at Home and School

Edited by Letizia Caronia

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the architecture of intersubjectivity”: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates the role of talk-in-interaction in displaying, ratifying, creating yet… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 32] 2021. vi, 385 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Pragmatics
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Language, Epistemology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio, Patricia Baquedano-López, Miguel Pérez-Milans and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 3:2 (2021) v, 135 pp.
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Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace

Xuehua Xiang

Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese… read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 14] 2021. xii, 217 pp.
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The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

Viviana Masia

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] 2021. xvi, 220 pp. + index
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Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective

Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.
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Methodology of Narrative Study: What the first thirty years of Narrative Inquiry have revealed

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Dorien Van De Mieroop

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 31:1 (2021) vi, 262 pp.
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Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups

Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian

Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving… read more
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The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese

Yoko Yonezawa

The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.
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Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A textual and communicative perspective

Lisa Nahajec

During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 38] 2021. xiii, 218 pp.
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New Developments in Relevance Theory

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.
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Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and patterns

Matthias Klumm

This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 3] 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
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OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages.… read more
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Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective

Edited by Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele

This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday… read more
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Pink Dot: Discursive Formations, Constructions, and Contestations

Edited by Adi Saleem Bharat, Pavan Mano and Robert Phillips

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:2 (2021) v, 119 pp.
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Police Interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research. It involves the first instance of the same dataset being analysed from different theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as providing original and detailed insights into both monolingual and bilingual UK police… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 118] 2021. v, 151 pp.
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The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French

Naomi Truan

This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the target, attention is given to the continuity between second and third… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 320] 2021. xvii, 279 pp.
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Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean

Eleonora Esposito

This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights into one of the most complex and diverse countries of the Archipelago. read more
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Polymedia in Interaction

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 12:5 (2021) vi, 168 pp.
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Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.
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Pragmatics of Accents

Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak

What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 327] 2021. vii, 266 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Adaptability

Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey

Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.
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Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet

Edited by Francisco Yus

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:1 (2021) v, 175 pp.
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Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 323] 2021. vi, 316 pp.
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Register in L1 and L2 Language Development

Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert

Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.
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Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language

Edited by Melanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021) v, 221 pp.
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The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials

Peter J. Grund

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
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Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena

Edited by Alexander Haselow and Sylvie Hancil

This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-related forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 219] 2021. vi, 354 pp.
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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts.… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.
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Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology

Edited by Paola Gentile, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt

Special issue of Translation Spaces 10:1 (2021) vi, 180 pp.
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Understanding Chinese Social Media

Edited by Sumin Zhao and Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021) v, 146 pp.
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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña

“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here,… read more
[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.
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(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ‘moral turn’ in (im)politeness studies. This volume, presented by a roster of prominent figures in the field, documents and showcases the complexity of (im)politeness as social practice by focusing on the… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 107] 2020. v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal

This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 95] 2020. vi, 358 pp.
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Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres

Edited by Wei Wang

Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the… read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 13] 2020. xiii, 233 pp.
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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.
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Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse

Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata

This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] 2020. vii, 291 pp.
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Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights

Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami

The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] 2020. xi, 315 pp. + index
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The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions

Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch

Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] 2020. viii, 257 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourses of aggression in Greek digitally-mediated communication

Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Ioannis E. Saridakis

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:2 (2020) v, 204 pp.
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Discourses on the Edges of Life

Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente

Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more… read more
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Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees

Emily Greenbank

Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters of microlevel discourse analysis – drawing on Bamberg &… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 27] 2020. x, 228 pp.
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Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. v, 265 pp.
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The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English

Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
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Emergent Syntax for Conversation: Clausal patterns and the organization of action

Edited by Yael Maschler, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Jan Lindström and Leelo Keevallik

This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax – that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause – relate to the local contingencies of action formation in social interaction. It examines both the on-line emergence of clause-combining patterns as they are ‘patched together’ on… read more
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Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine

Sarah Bro Trasmundi

Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 309] 2020. xii, 246 pp.
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Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable Machine Translation

Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny and Félix do Carmo

Special issue of Translation Spaces 9:1 (2020) v, 176 pp.
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Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action

Edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking seriously the need to account for their structural aspects. Formulaicity is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 315] 2020. v, 238 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] 2020. xiii, 272 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Hate speech: Definitions, interpretations and practices

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 11:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
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Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles

Edited by Pierre-Yves Modicom and Olivier Duplâtre

The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 213] 2020. vi, 304 pp.
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A Language Management Approach to Language Problems: Integrating macro and micro dimensions

Edited by Kimura Goro Christoph and Lisa Fairbrother

In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches to tackle this… read more
[Studies in World Language Problems, 7] 2020. ix, 273 pp.
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Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice

Elisabeth Barakos

Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism in private sector businesses in Wales, the book unpacks the circulating… read more
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The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses

Edited by Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen

In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about… read more
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Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life

Edited by Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping… read more
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Literacies in Contact

Edited by Manuela Böhm and Constanze Weth

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020) v, 180 pp.
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Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020

Roger D. Sell

As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit.… read more
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] 2020. xii, 425 pp.
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Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.
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Mass Media Effects and the Political Agenda: Assessing its Scope and Conditions

Edited by Ana Maria Belchior, Peter Van Aelst, José Santana-Pereira and Patrick Merle

Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 4:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.
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Media, Migration and Human Rights: Discourse and Resistance in the Context of the Erosion of Liberal Norms

Edited by Ekaterina Balabanova and Ruxandra Trandafoiu

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 19:3 (2020) vi, 184 pp.
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The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics

Edited by Angela Smith and Michael Higgins

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 19:1 (2020) vi, 200 pp.
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Metaphor in Mental Healthcare

Edited by Dennis Tay

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 10:2 (2020) vi, 166 pp.
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Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression

Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein

This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 22] 2020. ix, 132 pp.
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Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities

Edited by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz and Peter Golato

Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises

Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Marjut Johansson

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:2 (2020) v, 134 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence

Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena

Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
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Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

The creative potentiality of metaphor is one of the central themes in research on creativity. The present volume offers a space for the interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between metaphor and creativity by focusing on (re)contextualization across modes and socio-cultural contexts and… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 7] 2020. xi, 346 pp.
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Politeness in Professional Contexts

Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński

Much like in everyday life, politeness is key to the smooth running of relationships and interactions. Professional contexts, however, tend to be characterised by a plethora of behaviours that may be specific to that context. They include ‘polite’ behaviours, ‘impolite’ behaviours and behaviours… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 311] 2020. vi, 326 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Ritual

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:1 (2020) v, 168 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives

Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett

This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. viii, 549 pp.
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The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence: Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts

Emanuele Brambilla

What are the implications of strategic manoeuvring for the activity of the simultaneous interpreter? This is the main question addressed in The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence. Based on the analysis of a multilingual comparable corpus named ARGO, the book investigates political argumentation… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 18] 2020. xv, 238 pp.
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Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, co-text, and context

Edited by Pascal Hohaus and Rainer Schulze

Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
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Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics

Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska

The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central cases of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, puns, irony) while… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 8] 2020. vii, 357 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 (2020) v, 182 pp.
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Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South

Edited by Nell Haynes and Baird Campbell

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:1 (2020) v, 100 pp.
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Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish

Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera

Special issue of Spanish in Context 17:2 (2020) vi, 219 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Speaking for the Nation: Intellectuals and nation-building in the post-Yugoslav space

Federico Giulio Sicurella

The book explores the nexus of intellectual activity and nation-building from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. By examining how public intellectuals from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina commented on key national events in editorials and opinion pieces, it offers unique… read more
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Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen

All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This… read more
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Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions

Nadine Thielemann

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.
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Visual Linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

Christoph Rühlemann

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on… read more
[Not in series, 228] 2020. ix, 258 pp.
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Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö

Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson

This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
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Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads

Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick

This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic,… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 23] 2020. vi, 253 pp.
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The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction

Edited by Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson

The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore,… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 128] 2020. vi, 366 pp.
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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.
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Categorization in multilingual storytelling

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Steven Talmy

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:3 (2019) vi, 163 pp.
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The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Elda Weizman

Departing from the premise that ‘being ordinary’ is brought into the discourse and brought out in the discourse and is thus an interactional achievement, the contributions to this edited volume investigate its construction, reconstruction and deconstruction in media discourse. Ordinariness is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 307] 2019. vi, 297 pp.
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Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction

Valeria Sinkeviciute

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 8] 2019. xi, 274 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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Corpus-Based Research in Legal and Institutional Translation

Edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos

Special issue of Translation Spaces 8:1 (2019) v, 191 pp.
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Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse

Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.
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Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives

Edited by Yun Xiao and Linda Tsung

This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and… read more
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Discourse and Political Culture: The language of the Third Way in Germany and the UK

Michael Kranert

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords, metaphors, argumentation, genre) and political science (political culture, comparative politics,… read more
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Emotion in Discourse

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Laura Alba-Juez

Interest in human emotion no longer equates to unscientific speculation. 21st-century humanities scholars are paying serious attention to our capacity to express emotions and giving rigorous explanations of affect in language. We are unquestionably witnessing an ‘emotional turn’ not only in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 302] 2019. xi, 397 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse

Edited by Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 305] 2019. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Engagement in Professional Genres

Edited by Carmen Sancho Guinda

Engagement has turned essential in today’s communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audiences more diverse. Promotionalism and competitiveness, in addition, increasingly pervade human activity, and thus engaging readers, listeners and viewers… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 301] 2019. xiv, 373 pp.
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Environmental Argumentation

Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019) v, 171 pp.
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Exploring (im)politeness in ancient languages

Edited by Kim Ridealgh

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:2 (2019) v, 144 pp.
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Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume II

Edited by Chris J. Vargo

Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 3:1 (2019) v, 102 pp.
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 22] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002

Roger D. Sell

In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them.Literary writers,… read more
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Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum

Edited by Jan Zienkowski and Ruth Breeze

The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 83] 2019. vi, 378 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Information Visualization

Edited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles

Special issue of Information Design Journal 25:1 (2019) ii, 122 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews

Edited by Kathryn Roulston

Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many “ways” of interviewing. This edited collection unpacks the interactional dynamics of qualitative research interviews from studies conducted in education, second… read more
[Not in series, 220] 2019. xviii, 330 pp.
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Intertextuality in Practice

Jessica Mason

The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.
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Irregular perspective shifts and perspective persistence: Discourse-oriented and theoretical approaches

Edited by Caroline Gentens, María Sol Sansiñena, Stef Spronck and An Van linden

Special issue of Pragmatics 29:2 (2019) v, 154 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research

Edited by Bettina Kluge and María Irene Moyna

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume… read more
[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.
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Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration

Edited by Andreas Musolff

The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 102] 2019. v, 179 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen

The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more
[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
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Metaphor, Nation and Discourse

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević

This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the… read more
Other subjects Language policy | Pragmatics
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Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis

Edited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff

The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities. From this viewpoint, discourses about immigration are also always attempts at reconstructing the threatened ‘home identity’ of the respective… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 81] 2019. xi, 360 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Morality and language aggression

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Vahid Parvaresh

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:1 (2019) v, 132 pp.
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Norms and Conventions in the History of English

Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge

This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 347] 2019. v, 215 pp.
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On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry

Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse

Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019) vi, 135 pp.
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Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse

Xiaoling He

As a distinctive syntactic structure in Mandarin Chinese, the Patient-Subject Construction (PSC) is one of the most interesting but least well-understood structures in the language. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history, structure, meaning and use of the PSC. Unlike previous… read more
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Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:1 (2019) v, 151 pp.
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Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.
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Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe

Edited by Martina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurović

This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and… read more
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Pragmatics and Literature

Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 35] 2019. xiv, 225 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

Eva-Maria Graf

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 303] 2019. xi, 320 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler

Special issue of Spanish in Context 16:3 (2019) vi, 250 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Real Fictions: Fictionality, factuality and narrative strategies in contemporary storytelling

Edited by Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and Mari Hatavara

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019) v, 189 pp.
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Reference and Identity in Public Discourses

Edited by Ursula Lutzky and Minna Nevala

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] 2019. vi, 284 pp.
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Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures

Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more
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Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French

Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea

This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.
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Science Communication on the Internet: Old genres meet new genres

Edited by María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital, how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids, and how and why new genres have emerged and are… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 308] 2019. vi, 242 pp.
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Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 103] 2019. v, 177 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304] 2019. vi, 320 pp.
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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.
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Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns

Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar

In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 16] 2019. ix, 188 pp.
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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.
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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics

Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
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Technology Mediated Service Encounters

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Lucía Fernández-Amaya and María de la O Hernández-López

The chapters in this collection, authored by renowned scholars, address a gap in the literature by focusing on the consequences that outsourcing, among other globalized economic practices, and remediation by new technologies have had on the service encounters genre (SE). From both a multilingual… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 300] 2019. xi, 247 pp.
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Variation in Political Metaphor

Edited by Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps and Paul H. Thibodeau

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond the… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus

Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco

This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of… read more
[Not in series, 225] 2019. vii, 278 pp.
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Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?)

Edited by Terry Joyce and Robert Crellin

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 22:2 (2019) v, 142 pp.
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“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Yanying Lu

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major… read more
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 10] 2019. xv, 178 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 1:2 (2018) v, 174 pp.
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Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts

Edited by Sylvia Jaworska and Torsten Leuschner

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:1 (2018) vi, 172 pp.
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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.
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Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time: Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism

Dima Mohammed

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence, but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 15] 2018. xi, 162 pp.
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Between Turn and Sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages

Edited by John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in what are variously termed discourse markers or discourse particles. The greatest area of growth has centered on particles that occur in sentence-initial or turn-initial position, and this interest intersects with a long-standing… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 31] 2018. vii, 487 pp.
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Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.
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Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse

Sam Browse

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 31] 2018. xi, 235 pp.
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Compliments and Positive Assessments: Sequential organization in multi-party conversations

Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf

Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a Positive Remark continuum, with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 289] 2018. xv, 253 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and J. Lachlan Mackenzie

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 296] 2018. vi, 304 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing transitions in the classroom

Edited by Anna Filipi and Numa Markee

This volume brings together researchers in conversation analysis who examine the practice of alternating between English and German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese in the classroom. The collection shows that language alternation is integral to being and learning to become a bilingual, and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 295] 2018. ix, 263 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Pragmatics
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Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres

Edited by Marianna Patrona

How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and… read more
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Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse

Edited by Karin Bischof and Cornelia Ilie

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 17:5 (2018) vi, 127 pp.
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Dialogic Ethics

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 30] 2018. xiv, 286 pp.
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Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts

Edited by Merja Kytö and Terry Walker

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 (2018) v, 141 pp.
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Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish

Edited by Marta Albelda Marco and María Estellés

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:3 (2018) v, 162 pp.
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The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary

Jan Chovanec

This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297] 2018. xxii, 303 pp.
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The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective

Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 78] 2018. vii, 271 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse

Edited by Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Austria,… read more
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The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 7] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models

Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018) v, 200 pp.
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Empirical Studies of Literariness

Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018) v, 208 pp.
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Evidence for Evidentiality

Edited by Ad Foolen, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder

Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, ‘hearsay’, etc. Such expressions,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 61] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
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Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue

Edited by Geert Brône and Bert Oben

This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles, the chapters in the volume are united… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 10] 2018. vi, 329 pp.
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Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume I

Edited by Chris J. Vargo

Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 (2018) v, 111 pp.
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From Pragmatics to Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand and István Kecskés

This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 31] 2018. v, 222 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Pragmatics
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Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] 2018. xi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Historical Pragmatics of Controversies: Case studies from 1600 to 1800

Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning and Juliane Glüer

The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and theology. The protagonists of these controversies… read more
[Controversies, 14] 2018. vii, 346 pp.
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How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond

Martin Weisser

This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corpora enriched with pragmatics-relevant annotations. It first explores the general use of spoken corpora for pragmatics research, as well as issues… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 84] 2018. xiv, 294 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition

Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international… read more
[Not in series, 219] 2018. xv, 453 pp.
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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler

Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans

Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.
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Language/Sexuality/Affect

Edited by William L. Leap

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 7:1 (2018) v, 144 pp.
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Legal Pragmatics

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.
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Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages

Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.
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Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes

Eric A. Anchimbe

This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 298] 2018. xix, 316 pp.
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On Understanding Grammar: Revised edition

T. Givón

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge…a book about understanding done with deep understanding – of language and its place in Nature and in… read more
[Not in series, 213] 2018. xxi, 299 pp.
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Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres

Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo

Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 290] 2018. vi, 254 pp.
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Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives

Edited by Jana Pelclová and Wei-lun Lu

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 79] 2018. vi, 334 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature

Anna Piata

How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of time”? This book embarks on this endeavor initiated by the assumption that verbal creativity can shed some new light on our understanding of… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 3] 2018. xviii, 206 pp.
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Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli

Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 292] 2018. vi, 316 pp.
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Pragmatic Transfer and Development: Evidence from EFL learners in China

Wei Li

Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 287] 2018. xv, 268 pp.
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Pragmatics and its Interfaces

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick

This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 294] 2018. vi, 313 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists,… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30] 2018. vi, 221 pp.
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Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture

Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori

Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 285] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 96] 2018. v, 194 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Recent Developments in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Evelien Keizer and Hella Olbertz

This volume presents a collection of papers using the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to analyse and explain a number of specific constructions or phenomena (external possessor contructions and binominal constructions, negation, modification, modality, polysynthesis and transparency)… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 205] 2018. ix, 283 pp.
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Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation

Edited by Elena Di Giovanni and Yves Gambier

The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience, their comprehension, appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform, studies on the reception of translated… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 141] 2018. xii, 353 pp.
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Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context

Larssyn Staley

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses, according to region, gender, age,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 291] 2018. xiv, 201 pp.
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Tag Questions in Conversation: A typology of their interactional and stance meanings

Ditte Kimps

This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 83] 2018. xviii, 250 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Threatening in English: A mixed method approach

Julia Muschalik

Threatening is among the less pleasant “things we do with words”, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role in communication. Yet, little is still known about how and when exactly speakers threaten. The present volume addresses this void by giving an in-depth… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 284] 2018. xiv, 246 pp.
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Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Jürgen Streeck

This is the first book dedicated to the study of the complexities that arise in embodied interaction from the multiplicity of time-scales on which its component processes unfold. It shows in microscopic detail how people synchronize and sequence modal resources such as talk, gaze, gesture, and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 293] 2018. vi, 354 pp.
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Translation and Interpreting in Non-Governmental Organisations

Edited by Wine Tesseur

Special issue of Translation Spaces 7:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
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Understanding Writing Systems

Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
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Words of Crisis as Words of Power: The jeremiad in American presidential speeches

Marta Neüff

The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.S. American presidential speechmaking. Rhetorical leadership constitutes an inherent feature of the modern presidency. Particularly during times of critical events, the president is expected to react and address the nation. However, the power of… read more
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Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts

Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton

Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.
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Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament

Jennifer E. Cheng

Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how politicians contest and challenge racism against a minority group that does not constitute a traditional ‘race’. Using critical discourse analysis,… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions

Edited by Atta Gebril

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] 2017. ix, 390 pp.
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Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
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Argumentation in the Newsroom

Marta Zampa

The news we see daily is selected from among alternatives by journalists. Argumentation in the Newsroom uses ethnographic data from Swiss television and print newsrooms to shed light on how journalists make decisions regarding the selection and presentation of news items in their daily professional… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 13] 2017. xiii, 211 pp.
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Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Translation: The case of Hungarian-English news translation

Krisztina Károly

This book deals with the (re)production of cohesion and coherence in translation. Building on the theories and methods of Translation Studies and Discourse Analysis it answers some basic, still much debated questions related to translational discourse production. Such a question is whether it is… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 134] 2017. xiii, 269 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space

Edited by Anne Storch

This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 19] 2017. vii, 252 pp.
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Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres

Edited by Monika Kopytowska

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contemporary public discourses. The authors venture into an array of socio-political contexts and public spaces, providing a compelling overview of similarities… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 93] 2017. vi, 279 pp.
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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.
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Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account. Some articles provide relevant theoretical backgrounds, other… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 12] 2017. ix, 367 pp.
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Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru

Elena Mihas

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 181] 2017. xxi, 343 pp.
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Cultural Keywords in Discourse

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Sophia Waters

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277] 2017. ix, 249 pp.
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Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language

Farzad Sharifian †

This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. The most authoritative book in the field to date, it outlines the… read more
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Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Edited by István Kecskés and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Having been established as a field in its own right for the last decade, intercultural pragmatics is increasingly being recognized as an important area of research among scholars working in pragmatics. The present volume is a collection of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 274] 2017. vii, 369 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives

Edited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us.This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different… read more
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Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.
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Dialogue across Media

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas

With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters,… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.
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Dialogue and Ethics

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
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Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies

Edited by Jeremy Munday and Meifang Zhang

Discourse analytic approaches are central to translator training and translation analysis, but have been somewhat overlooked in recent translation studies. This volume sets out to rectify this marginalization. It considers the evolution of the use of discourse analysis in translation studies,… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 94] 2017. v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain

Lamya Alkooheji and Chitra Sinha

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society. Within the framework of critical discourse studies, the book traces the… read more
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE

Alexandra D'Arcy

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 187] 2017. xx, 235 pp.
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The Discursive Construction of Class and Lifestyle: Celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia

Ana Tominc

This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia. Using a critical discourse studies approach it demonstrates how the representation of culinary advice in standard and celebrity cookbooks has… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more
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Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage

This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A. Schegloff, the co-originator, with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, of Conversation Analysis (or CA), and its leading contemporary authority. The first section introduces Schegloff’s life and work, and, using… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 273] 2017. vi, 359 pp.
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Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing

Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 29] 2017. xiii, 311 pp.
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Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
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Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives

Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in… read more
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Health Information Design

Edited by Guillermina Noël

Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:3 (2017) ii, 134 pp.
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Historical (socio)pragmatics at present

Edited by Matylda Włodarczyk and Irma Taavitsainen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 (2017) v, 180 pp.
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How to Do Philosophy with Words: Reflections on the Searle-Derrida debate

Jesús Navarro

Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered. What is especially disconcerting is that most authors manage to largely ignore the very existence of methodological positions radically different from their own.… read more
[Controversies, 12] 2017. xviii, 225 pp.
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The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning

Anders Pettersson

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 pp.
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Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Stephanie Schnurr

This collection provides a kaleidoscopic view of a range of identity struggles in the workplace context. It features twenty-two case studies that present an eclectic mix of workplaces in different socio-cultural contexts. They include, among others, household workers in Peru and Hong Kong, female… read more
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Imperative Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action

Edited by Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Liisa Raevaara and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

In middle-class Anglo-speaking circles imperatives are considered impolite forms that command another to do something; etiquette manuals recommend avoiding them. The papers in this collection de-construct such lay beliefs. Through the empirical examination of everyday and institutional interaction… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Imperatives and Directive Strategies

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Simone Heinold

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 184] 2017. vi, 324 pp.
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Implicitness: From lexis to discourse

Edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel

Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 276] 2017. vi, 306 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Information Visualization

Edited by Isabel Meirelles and Katherine Gillieson

Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:1 (2017) ii, 123 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive markers

Naomi Ogi

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 272] 2017. xi, 232 pp.
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Iranian Political Satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary era

Mahmud Farjami

This volume surveys political satire as a journalistic genre in Iran since the latter days of the Qajar dynasty to the present, thus spanning one century and more. It is an important resource, but it also provides an analysis. Moreover, this volume is a rare effort to answer a question that looks… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 5] 2017. x, 213 pp.
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Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 91] 2017. v, 162 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Pragmatics
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Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
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Lexical Priming: Applications and advances

Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson

Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
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Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context

Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce

The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to consciousness the nature of Japanese culture and the presuppositions, norms and values found within Japanese society. This type of knowledge enables… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 281] 2017. vi, 248 pp.
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Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality

Edited by Stephen Pihlaja

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 7:1 (2017) v, 157 pp.
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Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres

Edited by Assimakis Tseronis and Charles Forceville

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which text and image (and other semiotic modes) combine to create meaning. The chapters have been written by an international group of senior and junior… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 14] 2017. ix, 301 pp.
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Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising

Paula Pérez-Sobrino

Metaphor and metonymy appeal to us because they evoke mental images in unique but still recognisable ways. The potential for figurative thought exists in everyone, and it pervades our everyday social interactions. In particular, advertising offers countless opportunities to explore the way in which… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 2] 2017. vii, 232 pp.
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Narrative Absorption

Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.
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Orthographic Databases and Lexicons

Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions

Edited by Malin Roitman

Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 283] 2017. ix, 270 pp.
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Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 11] 2017. ix, 184 pp.
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Public Debates on Immigration

Edited by Andreas Musolff

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:2 (2017) vi, 177 pp.
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Representing the Other in European Media Discourses

Edited by Jan Chovanec and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

This book deals with the construction of the ‘other’ in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges. The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that… read more
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Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities

Massih Zekavat

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects’ identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 6] 2017. vii, 210 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design

Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz

Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:2 (2017) ii, 121 pp.
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Skype and domestic settings: Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

Special issue of Pragmatics 27:3 (2017) v, 174 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Edited by Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275] 2017. vi, 231 pp.
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Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure

Viviana Masia

The book tackles the sociobiological bases of Information Structure (IS) inquiring both its evidential and neurobiological underpinnings in human communication. Its purpose is to delve into the epistemic and neurocognitive rationales behind the realization of informational hierarchies in a sentence. read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 9] 2017. xxi, 193 pp.
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Stance, resonance and the power of engagement

Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima

Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017) v, 137 pp.
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Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017) vi, 209 pp.
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The Substance and Value of Italian Si

Joseph Davis

This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender,… read more
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Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes

Edited by Hanna Risku, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic

Special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017) v, 180 pp.
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Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly

Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more
[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
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(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016) v, 186 pp.
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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.
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Cognitive space: Exploring the situational interface

Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow and Birgitta Englund Dimitrova

Special issue of Translation Spaces 5:1 (2016) v, 161 pp.
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Contrastive Pragmatics and Translation: Evaluation, epistemic modality and communicative styles in English and German

Svenja Kranich

This book provides the first comprehensive account of English-German pragmatic contrasts in written discourse and their effects on English-German translations. The novel and multi-dimensional corpus-based studies of business communication and popular science writing presented in this book combine… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 261] 2016. xiv, 204 pp.
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Controversies, Communication and the Body

Edited by Joseph Lehmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 (2016) vi, 170 pp.
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Conversation Analysis in Chinese

Edited by Sandra A. Thompson and Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 7:2 (2016) v, 166 pp.
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The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction

Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 55] 2016. xi, 384 pp.
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Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext

Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.
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Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'

Kerstin Fischer

This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models, automatic processes such as interactive alignment, and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 270] 2016. x, 327 pp.
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Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards

Cameron Smart

Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar, it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 76] 2016. xvi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax
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Discourse Topics

Richard Watson Todd

Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries, topic identification and topic… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 269] 2016. xv, 314 pp.
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Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise

Daria Dayter

This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 260] 2016. ix, 247 pp.
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Displaying Recipiency: Reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction

Jun Xu

This book is intended to address students, researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest… read more
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Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.
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Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Manuela Romano and M. Dolores Porto

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 262] 2016. vi, 299 pp.
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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.
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Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture

Senko K. Maynard

This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through “character-speak”, the book analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 263] 2016. xi, 344 pp.
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A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament

Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito

Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 68] 2016. vii, 222 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast

Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer

This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 87] 2016. v, 163 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, 20] 2016. viii, 220 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Humour and Relevance

Francisco Yus

This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 4] 2016. xix, 367 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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Language, Discourse, Style: Selected works of John McH. Sinclair

Edited by Sonia Zyngier

For the first time, the works on stylistics by one of the most brilliant linguists of our times are collected in a single volume. This book highlights the evolution of John Sinclair’s theories and insights from studies on language teaching through detailed analyses of text and discourse, and into… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 22] 2016. xxiii, 282 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson

Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
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Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace: The case of multilingual Switzerland

Edited by Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle Meier and Patchareerat Yanaprasart

The contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity… read more
[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 4] 2016. viii, 374 pp.
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Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves

Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop

This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.
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Metaphor and Communication

Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of… read more
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Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic… read more
Other subjects Humor studies | Pragmatics
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Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis

Charlotte Taylor

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 267] 2016. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Multimodality, Politics and Ideology

Edited by David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:3 (2016) v, 126 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.
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Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements

Edited by Luisa Martín Rojo

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. The Arab Spring, the European Summer, the American Fall in 2011, the revolts in India and South Africa and, more recently, in Istanbul, in several cities in Brazil, and in Hong Kong, are part of a… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 83] 2016. viii, 180 pp.
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Occupy Hong Kong: Historicizing Protest

Edited by John Flowerdew and Rodney H. Jones

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 15:5 (2016) vi, 147 pp.
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Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents

Edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann

This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 178] 2016. vi, 450 pp.
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Periphery – Diachronic and Cross-Linguistic Approaches

Edited by Yuko Higashiizumi, Noriko O. Onodera and Sung-Ock S. Sohn

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:2 (2016) v, 175 pp.
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Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization

Edited by Natalia Igl and Sonja Zeman

The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 21] 2016. viii, 185 pp.
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Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women

Priti Sandhu

This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education – Hindi, English, or a combination of both – on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 23] 2016. ix, 348 pp.
Other subjects Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
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Queering Borders: Language, sexuality, and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

In recent years, migration has moved to the forefront of national and global debates, intensifying discussions about borders, security, identity and citizenship. In this volume we ask how language and sexuality impact these discussions: how do sexuality and language contribute toward the… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 85] 2016. v, 158 pp.
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Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface

Simon Statham

Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface applies a range of linguistic models to recast trial by media not as a sensationalist and infrequent phenomenon, but as a systematic and routine process. Using critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistic models,… read more
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Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz

How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.
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Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis

Ilka Flöck

This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.
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Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż

The leitmotif, but not exclusive theme, of the present volume is Ronald Langacker’s (1987) thesis that “lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic units serving to structure conceptual content for expressive purposes”. The concept of the lexicogrammar continuum contrasts… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 54] 2016. vii, 284 pp.
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Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods

Edited by Paul McIlvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard

This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of Foucault’s annual lecture series at the Collège de France, scholars… read more
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Switch Reference 2.0

Edited by Rik van Gijn and Jeremy Hammond

Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 114] 2016. vi, 503 pp.
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Traffic & Transport: Part II

Edited by Peter Simlinger

Special issue of Information Design Journal 22:2 (2016) ii, 122 pp.
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Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy

Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann

Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016) v, 174 pp.
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Transnational discourses of peripheral sexualities in the Hispanic world

Edited by Michael J. Horswell and Nuria Godón

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 5:2 (2016) v, 150 pp.
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The pragmatics of professional discourse

Edited by Winnie Cheng

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016) vi, 168 pp.
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The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences

Edited by Barbara De Cock and Bettina Kluge

Special issue of Pragmatics 26:3 (2016) ca. 150 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Argumentation in Political Deliberation

Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed

The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters collected in the volume employ the concepts and methods developed within argumentation theory to investigate the specifics of political discourse across… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 76] 2015. v, 178 pp.
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Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages

Edited by Doris L. Payne and Shahar Shirtz

Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 109] 2015. vii, 321 pp.
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Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse

Edited by Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl

This volume explores the dynamics of genre conventions in historical English news discourse. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of news writing and publication formats: from corantos to modern tabloids, from prototypical hard news stories and crime reports to more specialised genres such as… read more
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 5] 2015. xiv, 254 pp.
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Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.
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Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China

Edited by Linda Tsung and Wei Wang

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the… read more
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Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press

Ulrike Tabbert

Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 20] 2015. xvii, 181 pp.
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Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities

Edited by Dale Koike and Carl S. Blyth

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the ‘community’, that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.g. geographical location, a common goal, a search for… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 27] 2015. vi, 314 pp.
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Discourse analysis, policy analysis, and the borders of EU identity

Edited by Caterina Carta and Ruth Wodak

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:1 (2015) v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses

Shelley Staples

The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses is the first book to quantitatively examine a wide range of linguistic features in a corpus of interactions between nurses and standardized patients. The main goal of this book is to… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 72] 2015. xiv, 263 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Discourse, Identity and Legitimacy: Self and Other in representations of Iran's nuclear programme

Majid KhosraviNik

This book is a critical study of the ways that discourses of the (national) Self and Other are invoked and reflected in the reporting of a major international political conflict. Taking Iran’s nuclear programme as a case study, this book offers extensive textual analysis, comparative investigation… read more
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Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders

Edited by John Wilson and Diana Boxer

Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders focuses on the discourse practices of women in global political leadership. It provides a series of discursive studies of women in positions of political leadership. ‘Political leadership’ is defined as achieving a senior position within a political… read more
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Discourse-oriented Syntax

Edited by Josef Bayer, Roland Hinterhölzl and Andreas Trotzke

Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 226] 2015. v, 253 pp.
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Discursive Strategies and Political Hegemony: The Turkish case

Can Küçükali

With the help of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this book approaches Turkish politics from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to deepen our understanding of political power and discourse. This study re-conceptualizes discursive strategies as hegemonic projects and thirteen governmental… read more
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The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups

Edited by Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 259] 2015. vi, 278 pp.
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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
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Hearer-Orientation in Spoken Genres

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Barbara De Cock

Special issue of Spanish in Context 12:1 (2015) vi, 176 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling

Edited by Laura Villa and Rik Vosters

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 18:2 (2015) v, 125 pp.
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Interpersonal Argumentation

Edited by Harry Weger, Jr

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:1 (2015) v, 133 pp.
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Israeli Peace Discourse: A cultural approach to CDA

Dalia Gavriely-Nuri

What role do language and discourse play in the advancement of peace? What is the connection between a given society’s “peace language” and the repeated failure of peace initiatives involving it? At the heart of this book lie these basic questions and the attempt to shed light on them from new… read more
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Language & Citizenship

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating democracy in Tokelau

Ingjerd Hoëm

Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 13] 2015. xxii, 152 pp.
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Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular culture

Beverly J. Rasporich

Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall… read more
[Topics in Humor Research, 3] 2015. xxi, 300 pp.
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The Mighty Child: Time and power in children's literature

Clémentine Beauvais

The Mighty Child offers an existentialist approach to the theorization and criticism of children’s literature, nuancing the academic claim that children’s literature, specifically defined as ‘didactic’, alienates childhood from adulthood and disempowers its implied child reader. This volume… read more
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Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines

Edited by Franziska Gygax and Miriam A. Locher

This collection of original chapters gives center stage to the concept of ‘narrative’ in medical contexts. The contributors come from the disciplines of literary and cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, and medicine and work with texts as diverse as autobiographies, graphic novels,… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 20] 2015. vii, 217 pp.
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Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions

Edited by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 256] 2015. vi, 285 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda

Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that – while involved in a dialogue – they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 26] 2015. xiv, 275 pp.
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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.
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Pragmatic Markers in Irish English

Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan

Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 258] 2015. vi, 443 pp.
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Producing and Managing Restricted Activities: Avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction

Edited by Fabienne H.G. Chevalier and John Moore

This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, tourist officers) seek to avoid in their interactions with clients, when such talk may be expected or due in some way. The studies utilise Conversation… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 255] 2015. vi, 382 pp.
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Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn

Special issue of Pragmatics 25:1 (2015) 122 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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.
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Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food: A frame-semantic approach to language and perception

Catherine Diederich

Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food presents a frame-based analysis of sensory descriptors. This book investigates the identification and usefulness of conceptual frames in three respects: First, an analysis of scientific language use shows that a semantic interpretation of the adjectives… read more
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Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics: South African political discourses

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić

The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the… read more
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Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change

Óscar García Agustín

Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating… read more
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Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo

This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.
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Time and Emergence in Grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution… read more
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Translation as a cognitive activity

Edited by Fabio Alves, Amparo Hurtado Albir and Isabel Lacruz

Special issue of Translation Spaces 4:1 (2015) v, 187 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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Understanding Patients' Voices: A multi-method approach to health discourse

Marta Antón and Elizabeth M. Goering

This volume illustrates the process of conducting interdisciplinary, multi-cultural research into the relationship between patient language use and chronic disease management. The ten chapters in this book provide a model for interdisciplinary research in health discourse from start to finish. Part… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 257] 2015. xv, 185 pp.
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The political impact of metaphors

Edited by Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015) v, 130 pp.
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Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics

Edited by Ritva Laury, Marja Etelämäki and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Special issue of Pragmatics 24:3 (2014) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Argumentation and Health

Edited by Sara Rubinelli and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of argumentation in the health care domain. Argumentation and Health is a collection of essays by argumentation theorists reflecting on the way in which the institutional context of health care shapes the argumentative interaction. The… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 64] 2014. vi, 147 pp.
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Argumentation in the Media

Edited by Darrin Hicks

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:1 (2014) v, 101 pp.
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Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue

Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.
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Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
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Cognitive Grammar in Literature

Edited by Chloe Harrison, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 17] 2014. xiv, 255 pp.
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Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse

Edited by Pascal Fischer and Christoph Schubert

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 13:2 (2014) v, 170 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts

Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari

This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, epistemicity, evidentiality, hedging, mitigation… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 25] 2014. vii, 413 pp.
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Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts

Edited by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (‘we’). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the grammatical means that a language offers for accomplishing collective self-reference and the socio-pragmatic – broadly speaking – functions of ‘we’.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 239] 2014. x, 355 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax
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Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives

Edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.
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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.
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Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture

Edited by Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 (2014) v, 181 pp.
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Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends

Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:1 (2014) ix, 171 pp.
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Current Trends in Chinese Discourse

Edited by Wei Wang and Linda Tsung

Special issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 5:1 (2014) v, 97 pp.
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Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin

For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 60] 2014. v, 134 pp.
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Diagrammatic Reasoning

Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.
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Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres

Edited by Luz Gil-Salom and Carmen Soler-Monreal

Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 23] 2014. xvi, 227 pp.
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Discourse Segmentation in Romance Languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería

This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fifteen years in Romance languages. All these approaches share the assumption that discourses (either oral or written) can be fully divided into units and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 250] 2014. v, 276 pp.
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The Discourse Studies Reader: Main currents in theory and analysis

Edited by Johannes Angermuller, Dominique Maingueneau and Ruth Wodak

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now… read more
[Not in series, 184] 2014. ix, 417 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China

Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton

After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and… read more
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 54] 2014. vi, 213 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Discourses of Helping Professions

Edited by Eva-Maria Graf, Marlene Sator and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy

Discourses of Helping Professions brings together cutting-edge research on professional discourses from both traditional helping contexts such as doctor-patient interaction or psychotherapy and more recent helping contexts such as executive coaching. Unlike workplace, professional and institutional… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 252] 2014. vi, 320 pp.
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Fictive Interaction: The conversation frame in thought, language, and discourse

Esther Pascual

Language is intimately related to interaction. The question arises: Is the structure of interaction somehow mirrored in language structure and use? This book suggests a positive answer to this question by examining the ubiquitous phenomenon of fictive interaction, in which non-genuine… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 47] 2014. xiv, 243 pp.
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Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse: Theoretical foundations and descriptive applications

Alexander Ziem

How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 48] 2014. xii, 428 pp.
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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon

Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage… read more
[Not in series, 188] 2014. ix, 379 pp.
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From Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines

Edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof

From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political science, computational methods and discourse analysis, it presents a diverse collection of analytical models including pure quantitative and qualitative… read more
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The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing

Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and explanation… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 247] 2014. viii, 292 pp.
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Gender, Language and Ideology: A genealogy of Japanese women's language

Momoko Nakamura

The book examines women’s language as an ideological construct historically created by discourse. The aim is to demonstrate, by delineating a genealogy of Japanese women’s language, that, to deconstruct and denaturalize the relationships between gender and any language, and to account for why and… read more
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse

Frank Austermühl

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the… read more
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Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry

Edited by Katherine Lahti, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 5:3 (2014) vi, 185 pp.
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Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity

Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more
[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.
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Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical and descriptive advances

Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Freek Van de Velde

Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by Traugott as "the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer's attention to the hearer/reader", on the other hand, has so far received little explicit… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 65] 2014. vi, 161 pp.
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Language Aggression Against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2:2 (2014) v, 120 pp.
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Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences

Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 238] 2014. vi, 318 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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.
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Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber

Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto

Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60] 2014. xxxviii, 328 pp.
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Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more
[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.
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Multimodality, Interaction and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation

Xiaoting Li

One major feature of conversation is that people take turns to speak. Based on audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring Mandarin conversation, this book explores the role of syntax, prosody, body movements as well as their interplay in turn organization in the temporal unfolding of action… read more
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Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements

Edited by Luisa Martín Rojo

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 13:4 (2014) vi, 286 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British online news between public and private

Daniela Landert

It seems to be a truism that today’s news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago. However, it is far from obvious, how this can be described linguistically. This study develops a model that integrates and differentiates between the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 240] 2014. xiv, 294 pp.
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Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies. Selected essays by David Zarefsky

David Zarefsky

In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 7] 2014. x, 386 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications

Edited by Helmut Gruber and Gisela Redeker

Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 254] 2014. vii, 295 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Pragmatics
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Profiling Discourse Participants: Forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates

Barbara De Cock

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 246] 2014. xvii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Queering borders: Language, sexuality and migration

Edited by David A.B. Murray

Special issue of Journal of Language and Sexuality 3:1 (2014) v, 160 pp.
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SMS Communication: A linguistic approach

Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon

The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language. Most linguists, on the contrary, are firmly convinced that it is better to consider language as an… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 61] 2014. viii, 267 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens

Irene Theodoropoulou

This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the… read more
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Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives

Edited by Katja Pelsmaekers, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo

Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives offers a timely collection of new articles on the relationship between discursive practices in organizational or institutional contexts and the psychological/moral category of trust. As globalization, the drive for efficiency and accountability, and… read more
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The architecture of writing systems

Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:2 (2014) viii, 142 pp.
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The interaction between context and grammar in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Nuria Alturo, Evelien Keizer and Lluís Payrató

Special issue of Pragmatics 24:2 (2014) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations

Jenny Arendholz

This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much scientific interest. It sets out to… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 229] 2013. xiii, 285 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice

Edited by Piotr Cap and Urszula Okulska

Featuring contributions by leading specialists in the field, the volume is a survey of cutting edge research in genres in political discourse. Since, as is demonstrated, “political genres” reveal many of the problems pertaining to the analysis of communicative genres in general, it is also a… read more
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Approaches to Slavic Interaction

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Peter Kosta

This volume provides an overview of current research priorities in the analysis of face-to-face-interaction in Slavic speaking language communities. The core of this volume ranges from discourse analysis in the tradition of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis to newer methods of… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 20] 2013. xi, 318 pp.
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Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics

Special issue of Pragmatics 23:3 (2013) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Argumentation in Political Interviews: Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency

Corina Andone

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 5] 2013. viii, 147 pp.
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Argumentation in political deliberation

Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:1 (2013) v, 177 pp.
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Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Hella Olbertz

This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages that has risen to prominence in recent years. The authors, all committed practitioners of FDG, include Kees Hengeveld, the intellectual father of the… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 137] 2013. ix, 313 pp.
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Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion

Edited by Allyssa McCabe and Chien-ju Chang

Chinese Language Narration: Culture, cognition, and emotion is a collection of papers presenting original research on narration in Mandarin, especially as it contrasts to what is known regarding narration in English. One chapter addresses dinner table conversation between Chinese immigrant parents… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 19] 2013. viii, 213 pp.
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Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special

Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley

Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity construction, and the everyday fabrication and perception of the world as a… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 10] 2013. xvi, 347 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description

Edited by Liesbeth Degand, Bert Cornillie and Paola Pietrandrea

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 234] 2013. v, 239 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives

Edited by Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don

Discourse and Crisis: Critical perspectives brings together an exciting collection of studies into crisis as text and context, as unfolding process and unresolved problem. Crisis is viewed as a complex phenomenon that – in its prevalence, disruptiveness and (appearance of) inevitability – is both… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language: Education, politics and everyday life

Johann Wolfgang Unger

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary… read more
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The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness

Edited by Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other’s human autonomy?… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 19] 2013. xii, 271 pp.
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Eurocentrism in Translation Studies

Edited by Luc van Doorslaer and Peter Flynn

In the wake of post-colonial and post-modernist thinking, ‘Eurocentrism’ has been criticized in a number of academic disciplines, including Translation Studies. First published as a special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 6:2 (2011), this volume re-examines and problematizes some of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 54] 2013. v, 133 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project

Edited by Anne-Claude Berthoud, François Grin and Georges Lüdi

This book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and its uses in a context of rapid changes, in Europe and around the world. All types of organisations, including the political institutions of the European Union, universities and private-sector companies must rise to the many… read more
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Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change

Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new,… read more
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Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 231] 2013. vi, 270 pp.
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The Linguistics of Newswriting

Daniel Perrin

The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerg­ing field of linguistics of newswriting. From… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 11] 2013. xiii, 302 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis

Keiko Tsuchiya

How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 236] 2013. xv, 234 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Literary Linguistics

Edited by Anja Müller-Wood

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 3:1 (2013) v, 163 pp.
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Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications

Edited by Francisco Gonzálvez-García, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández

The contributions in this volume go beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor complementing it in a number of relevant ways. Some of the papers argue for a more dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to metaphor looking into it from semiotic, psychological and socio-cultural perspectives. Other… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 56] 2013. vi, 318 pp.
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Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A descriptive and prescriptive analysis

Dennis Tay

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such… read more
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Metaphorical creativity across modes

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
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Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)

Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures

Edited by Anita Fetzer

The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the disciplinary and methodological boundaries of speech act theory, social positioning theory, and argumentation theory and rhetorics. They address the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 228] 2013. vi, 246 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

This is the first-ever book-length collection of articles on the subject of prosody and humor. The chapters are written by the recognized leaders in the field and present the cutting edge of the research in this new interdisciplinary field of study. The book covers a broad range of languages, using… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 55] 2013. v, 192 pp.
Other subjects Humor studies | Phonology | Pragmatics
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Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse

Melani Schröter

This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of… read more
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Space for all? European perspectives on minority languages and identity

Edited by Dawn Archer, Christopher Williams and Paul Fryer

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 4:2 (2013) v, 130 pp.
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Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse

Edited by Kjersti Fløttum

Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political environment, demonstrating the complex… read more
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The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation

Heike Pichler

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 13] 2013. xxi, 276 pp.
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Thanking Formulae in English: Explorations across varieties and genres

Sabine Jautz

In the present study the use of thanking formulae is examined across different genres and varieties of English. Data is taken from the British National Corpus and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English.Employing a form-to-function mapping, thanking formulae are not only analysed… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 230] 2013. xv, 308 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Pragmatics
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The Travelling Concepts of Narrative

Edited by Mari Hatavara, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen

Narrative is a pioneer concept in our trans-disciplinary age. For decades, it has been one of the most successful catchwords in literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and health studies. While the expansion of narrative studies has led to significant advances across a number of fields,… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 18] 2013. vi, 311 pp.
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Units of Talk – Units of Action

Edited by Beatrice Szczepek Reed and Geoffrey Raymond

In this volume leading academics in Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis consider the notion of units for the study of language and interaction. Amongst the issues being explored are the role and relevance of traditionally accepted linguistic units for the analysis of naturally… read more
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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.
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Writing and the Mind

Edited by David R. Olson and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 21:3 (2013) v, 148 pp.
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(Re)presentations and Dialogue

Edited by François Cooren and Alain Létourneau

This edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues,… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 16] 2012. xv, 348 pp.
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Advice in Discourse

Edited by Holger Limberg and Miriam A. Locher

This multi-faceted collection of research papers on Advice in Discourse focuses on advisory practices in different contexts. Data is drawn from academic, educational and training settings, health-related practices, and computer-mediated communication. The languages involved are Cantonese, English,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 221] 2012. ix, 376 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Argumentation and Health

Edited by Sara Rubinelli and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:1 (2012) vi, 142 pp.
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Author Representations in Literary Reading

Eefje Claassen

Author Representations in Literary Reading investigates the role of the author in the mind of the reader. It is the first book-length empirical study on generated author inferences by readers of literature. It bridges the gap between theories which hold that the author is irrelevant and those that… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 11] 2012. ix, 272 pp.
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Cohesive Profiling: Meaning and interaction in personal weblogs

Christian R. Hoffmann

Cohesive Profiling provides one of the first linguistic descriptions of blog discourse, focusing on the cohesive relations which enable users to construe blogs as compatible meaningful wholes. With a corpus-based analysis of cohesive relations in personal blogs, the study surprisingly reveals that… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 219] 2012. xxi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure

Edited by Anton Benz, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein

The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. This volume unites psycholinguistic studies, investigations of logical and computational models of discourse,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 223] 2012. vii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to linguistic and cultural aspects of mass media communication

Edited by Stefan Hauser and Martin Luginbühl

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern in various academic fields, such as intercultural communication, contrastive textology, comparative cultural studies, historical and intercultural pragmatics.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 226] 2012. vi, 248 pp.
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Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories

Mariko Karatsu

This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.
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Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic strategies in narrative

Christina Ljungberg

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 11] 2012. vii, 190 pp.
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Culture – Language – Cognition

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 (2012) vi, 198 pp.
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Dialogue and Representation

Edited by Alain Létourneau and François Cooren

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 2:1 (2012) vi, 189 pp.
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Dialogue in Politics

Edited by Lawrence N. Berlin and Anita Fetzer

The volume considers politics as cooperative group action and takes the position that forms of government can be posited on a continuum with endpoints where governance is shared, and where hegemony dictates, ranging from politics as interaction to politics as imposition. Similarly, dialogue and… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 18] 2012. vii, 313 pp.
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Dialogue, Science and Academic Writing

Zohar Livnat

This book investigates the dialogic nature of research articles from the perspective of discourse analysis, based on theories of dialogicity. It proposes a theoretical and applied framework for the understanding and exploration of scientific dialogicity. Focusing on some dialogic components, among… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 13] 2012. vi, 216 pp.
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Discourse Markers in Early Modern English

Ursula Lutzky

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.
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Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China

Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 42] 2012. ix, 150 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction

Edited by Gitte Rasmussen, Catherine E. Brouwer and Dennis Day

Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 225] 2012. v, 238 pp.
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Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 3:2 (2012) v, 191 pp.
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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.
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Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian

Edited by Gisle Andersen

This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 49] 2012. vi, 356 pp.
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An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)

Heiko Motschenbacher

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is,… read more
[Not in series, 177] 2012. vii, 294 pp.
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La sociolingüística con perspectiva etnográfica en el mundo hispano: Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones

Edited by Eva Codó, Adriana Patiño-Santos and Virginia Unamuno

Special issue of Spanish in Context 9:2 (2012) vi, 201 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe

Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 218] 2012. vii, 254 pp.
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Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present

Edited by Roger D. Sell

The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.
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Media Intertextualities

Edited by Mie Hiramoto

This collection of critical essays, originally published in Pragmatics and Society 1:2 (2010), discusses how normative biases that shape our relation to the world are constructed through discursive practice in media discourse. The intertextual perspective it adopts is crucial for our understanding… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 37] 2012. v, 144 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Edited by Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 38] 2012. x, 379 pp.
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Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen

This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method, based on monolingual or translation corpora, does not only provide interesting insights about differences… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 44] 2012. v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren

Edited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman

The ideas that mark modern-day pragmatics are old, but did not start to get more systematically developed until the 1960s and 1970s. Still, the very recognition of pragmatics as a self-standing academic discipline is a product of the 1980s, not least made possible by the establishment of the… read more
[Not in series, 170] 2012. vi, 230 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Stanca Măda and Răzvan Săftoiu

Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 17] 2012. vi, 284 pp.
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Public Information Messages: A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication

Anne Barron

Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 222] 2012. xix, 340 pp.
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Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Isabelle Buchstaller and Ingrid van Alphen

Research on quotation has yielded a rich and diverse knowledge-base. Scientific interest has been sparked particularly by the recent emergence of new quotative forms in typologically related and unrelated languages (i.e. English be like, Hebrew kazé, Japanese mitai-na).The present collection gives… read more
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Spaces of Polyphony

Edited by Clara Ubaldina Lorda and Patrick Zabalbeascoa

Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 15] 2012. vii, 299 pp.
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Style-Shifting in Public: New perspectives on stylistic variation

Edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 9] 2012. vii, 231 pp.
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Textual Choices in Discourse: A view from cognitive linguistics

Edited by Barbara Dancygier, José Sanders and Lieven Vandelanotte

In recent years, research in cognitive linguistics has expanded its interests to cover a variety of texts – spoken, written, or multimodal. Analytical tools such as conceptual metaphor, frame semantics, mental spaces and grammatical constructions have been productively applied in various discourse… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 40] 2012. v, 198 pp.
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Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Translation and the Genealogy of Conflict

Edited by Luis Pérez-González

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 11:2 (2012) vi, 142 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Units of Language – Units of Writing

Edited by Terry Joyce and David Roberts

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 15:2 (2012) v, 140 pp.
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The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton

Special issue of Pragmatics 22:2 (2012) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Argumentation in Dispute Mediation: A reasonable way to handle conflict

Sara Greco

The context of mediation immediately highlights the importance of argumentation as a means to reasonably handle conflict. Argumentation in dispute mediation tackles this topic providing both theoretical insights and detailed empirical argumentative analysis. Its goal is twofold: to explore… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 3] 2011. xii, 291 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi

This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 209] 2011. vii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution

Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Victor D. Boantza

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and… read more
[Controversies, 11] 2011. vi, 287 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition

Edited by Christopher Hart

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an exciting research enterprise in which scholars are concerned with the discursive reproduction of power and inequality. However, researchers in CDS are increasingly recognising the need to investigate the cognitive dimensions of discourse and context if they… read more
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Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications

Farzad Sharifian †

This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive… read more
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The Discourse of Social Achievement

Edited by Georgeta Cislaru

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 2:2 (2011) v, 173 pp.
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Discursive Pragmatics

Edited by Jan Zienkowski, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 8] 2011. xv, 307 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas

Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
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Indentured Identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji

Farzana Gounder

The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 15] 2011. xvii, 345 pp.
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The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction

Hideki Saigo

The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 205] 2011. xiv, 281 pp.
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Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia

Felicitas Macgilchrist

Journalism is often thought of as the ‘fourth estate’ of democracy. This book suggests that journalism plays a more radical role in politics, and explores new ways of thinking about news media discourse. It develops an approach to investigating both hegemonic discourse and discursive fissures,… read more
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Learning and Teaching Narrative Inquiry: Travelling in the Borderlands

Edited by Sheila Trahar

In the final chapter of this volume, the authors refer to the “pedagogical vantage points offered by narrative inquiry”, an apt comment that encapsulates the volume’s purpose and its spirit. As an increasing number of people throughout the world – and from a broad range of disciplines – are turning… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 14] 2011. vi, 178 pp.
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Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures

Edited by Danijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as… read more
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Multilingual Discourse Production: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Edited by Svenja Kranich, Viktor Becher, Steffen Höder and Juliane House

This volume presents discourse production in multilingual contexts as a specific type of language contact situation. Translation may be seen as the prototypical type of multilingual discourse production, other types would include parallel text production in different languages (e.g. for websites)… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 12] 2011. viii, 312 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains

Edited by Marta Dynel

This edited volume brings together a range of contributions solely on the linguistics of humour. Rather than favour one approach, this collection of articles gives a state-of-the-art picture of current directions in pragmatic humour studies. The contributors assume multifarious theoretical… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 210] 2011. vi, 382 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The case of the Bush doctrine

Patricia L. Dunmire

This monograph examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse, focusing on political actors’ use of hegemonic images of future “reality” to achieve their political goals. It argues that a key ideological dimension of political rhetoric lies in… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge

Louise Phillips

It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields. Here, “dialogue” has become a buzzword that promises democratic, participatory processes of mutual learning and knowledge co-production. But what does “dialogue” actually entail… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 pp.
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Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) vi, 194 pp.
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Recreation and Style: Translating humorous literature in Italian and English

Brigid Maher

This volume explores the translation of literary and humorous style, including comedy, irony, satire, parody and the grotesque, from Italian to English and vice versa. The innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical approach places the focus on creativity and playful rewriting as central to the… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 90] 2011. ix, 193 pp.
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Referring Expressions in English and Japanese: Patterns of use in dialogue processing

Etsuko Yoshida

It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 208] 2011. xviii, 206 pp.
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Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society

Edited by Hiroko Takanashi and Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Special issue of Pragmatics 21:2 (2011) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish

Minerva Oropeza-Escobar

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 204] 2011. vii, 271 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Researching Specialized Languages

Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.
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Studies in Political Humour: In between political critique and public entertainment

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa

If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or… read more
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Subordination in Conversation: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki

The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. Some of the articles approach ‘subordination’ in terms of social action, taking into account what participants are doing with their talk,… read more
[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 24] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
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Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability

Edited by Mats Ekström and Marianna Patrona

This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news… read more
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Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series

Edited by Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi

This cutting-edge collection of articles provides the first organised reflection on the language of films and television series across British, American and Italian cultures. The volume suggests new directions for research and applications, and offers a variety of methodologies and perspectives on… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 211] 2011. xi, 315 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)

Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker

Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more
[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
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Thematising Multilingualism in the Media

Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 10:4 (2011) v, 153 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data

Christopher Jenks

Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more
[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.
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Typology of writing systems

Edited by S. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 14:1 (2011) v, 159 pp.
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Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness

Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011) vi, 313 pp.
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Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish

Edited by Giovanni Parodi †

This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings. The study is based on one of the largest available corpus on disciplinary written… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 40] 2010. xii, 255 pp.
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Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism

François Cooren

What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as “doing things with… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 6] 2010. xvi, 206 pp.
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Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures

Rudy Loock

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs). In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view,… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.
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Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices

Gergana Vitanova

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants.… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.
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Beyond Narrative Coherence

Edited by Matti Hyvärinen, Lars-Christer Hydén, Marja Saarenheimo and Maria Tamboukou

Beyond Narrative Coherence reconsiders the way we understand and work with narratives. Even though narrators tend to strive for coherence, they also add complexity, challenge canonical scripts, and survey lives by telling highly perplexing and contradictory stories. Many narratives remain… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 11] 2010. vi, 196 pp.
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Body, Language and Meaning in Conflict Situations: A semiotic analysis of gesture-word mismatches in Israeli-Jewish and Arab discourse

Orit Sônia Waisman

This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situations. The current study adopts the word systems… read more
Other subjects Gesture Studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
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Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose

Olga Spevak

Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 117] 2010. xv, 318 pp.
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Constraints in Discourse 2

Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Anton Benz and Candace L. Sidner

Text is highly structured, and structured at a variety of levels. But what are the units of text, which levels are at stake, and what establishes the structure that binds the units together? This volume, just as the predecessor a spin off of one of the workshops on constraints in discourse,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 194] 2010. v, 180 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Developmental aspects of written language

Edited by Sofía A. Vernon Carter and Mónica Alvarado

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 13:2 (2010) vi, 116 pp.
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Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts

Edited by Dale Koike and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano

Dialogue in Spanish provides a strong theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of dialogue. This edited collection of twelve original studies contributes to a broad comprehension of dialogue in two general contexts: personal interactions among friends and family; and public speech, such… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
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Dialogue – The Mixed Game

Edda Weigand

The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 10] 2010. xii, 304 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China

Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010) v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourses in Interaction

Edited by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi

The fourteen contributions in this collection come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis; the name given to what is studied ranges from spoken language and conversation to interaction, dialogue, discourse… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 203] 2010. vii, 315 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more
[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?

Edited by Jonathan Cole and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010) vi, 148 pp.
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European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

In the European tradition, parliaments are central political institutions that play a crucial role in the development of democratic societies. No other institution regularly offers a public arena for open deliberation and dissent, for discussing opposite points of view and for reaching compromise… read more
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Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis

Kerry Mullan

Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 200] 2010. xvii, 282 pp.
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Healthcare Information

Edited by Peter Simlinger

Special issue of Information Design Journal 18:3 (2010) ii, 105 pp.
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Heteroglossia and language ideologies in children’s peer play interactions

Edited by Amy Kyratzis, Ann-Carita Evaldsson and Jennifer Reynolds

Special issue of Pragmatics 20:4 (2010) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico

Edited by José del Valle and Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux

Special issue of Spanish in Context 7:1 (2010) v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk: Office hour consultations

Holger Limberg

This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 198] 2010. xiv, 397 pp.
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Keyness in Texts

Edited by Marina Bondi and Mike Scott

This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key – and thereby reflect or promote important themes – in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 41] 2010. vi, 251 pp.
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Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist perspectives

Heiko Motschenbacher

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view.… read more
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Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use

Sebastian Feller

Lexical Meaning in Dialogic Language Use addresses a number of central issues in the field of lexical semantics. Starting off from an action-theoretical view of communication meaning is defined as something that speakers do in dialogic language use. Meaning as ‘meaning-in-use’ opens up a new… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 9] 2010. vii, 184 pp.
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Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives

Sandrine Zufferey

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.
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A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to MIPVU

Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering… read more
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Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings

Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.
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Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media

Edited by Christian R. Hoffmann

The volume examines the role of narratives in old and new media. Its ten contributions firstly center on the various forms and functions narratives assume in computer-mediated environments, e.g. websites, weblogs, message boards, etc. In this light, past and present approaches to the description of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 199] 2010. vii, 276 pp.
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New Adventures in Language and Interaction

Edited by Jürgen Streeck

In this book sixteen international scholars of language and social interaction describe their distinct frameworks of analysis. Taking conversation analysis and interactional sociolinguistics as their points of departure and investigating ordinary conversation as well as institutions such as health… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 196] 2010. vi, 275 pp.
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Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses

Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 22] 2010. v, 124 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Perspectives in Politics and Discourse

Edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains –… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Post-Communist Condition: Public and private discourses of transformation

Edited by Aleksandra Galasińska and Dariusz Galasiński

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its ‘interpreters’; changes in… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Prosody in Interaction

Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting

Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics
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Representations and Othering in Discourse: The construction of Turkey in the EU context

Beyza Ç. Tekin

This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a… read more
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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.
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Soliloquy in Japanese and English

Yoko Hasegawa

Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative means, its function as a tool for thinking has long been neglected in empirical research, vis-à-vis philosophical discussions. Language manifests itself… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 202] 2010. ix, 230 pp.
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South Slavic Discourse Particles

Edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić and Mirjana Mišković-Luković

Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 197] 2010. ix, 166 pp.
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Storied Conflict Talk: Narrative construction in mediation

Katherine A. Stewart and Madeline M. Maxwell

Narrative analyses routinely investigate autobiographical and interview data. This book examines narratives-in-interaction co-constructed by participants in formal mediation sessions, by asking how many of the five cases in the videotaped data display the adversarial narrative pattern pervasive… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 12] 2010. vii, 137 pp.
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Storytelling across Japanese Conversational Genre

Edited by Polly E. Szatrowski

This book investigates how Japanese participants accommodate to and make use of genre-specific characteristics to make stories tellable, create interpersonal involvement, negotiate responsibility, and show their personal selves. The analyses of storytelling in casual conversation, animation… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 13] 2010. vi, 313 pp.
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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.
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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.
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Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse

Anita Naciscione

Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in the fascinating field of phraseology. The… read more
[Not in series, 159] 2010. xiii, 292 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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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
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Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish

David Brian Roby

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.
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Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Edited by Eija Suomela-Salmi and Fred Dervin

The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. The adjective Cross-cultural in the volume title is not just limited to national contexts but also includes a cross-disciplinary perspective. Twelve scientific fields are under… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 193] 2009. vi, 299 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Culture and Language Use

Edited by Gunter Senft, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] 2009. xiii, 280 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond

Edited by Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari

This book foregrounds practices and discourses of ‘translation’ in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 86] 2009. xi, 219 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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Deconstructing Constructions

Edited by Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista

This collection of papers brings together contributions from experts in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches, with the aim of exploring the concept of construction from different angles and trying to arrive at a better understanding of what a construction is, and what roles… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 107] 2009. xx, 306 pp.
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Dialogue in Intercultural Communities: From an educational point of view

Edited by Claudio Baraldi

This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships. This analysis is based on theories of communication and active participation in education systems, in particular in intercultural settings. The book investigates the cultural… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 4] 2009. viii, 277 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Pragmatics
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Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies

Edited by Jan Renkema

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold: to present material for advanced… read more
[Not in series, 148] 2009. vii, 393 pp.
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Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe

Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson

One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration. A particular challenge confronting national governments is how to accommodate speakers of an ever-increasing number of languages… read more
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Distributed Language

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009) v, 207 pp.
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Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker

In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.
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Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching

Edited by Lee B. Abraham and Lawrence Williams

New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 25] 2009. x, 346 pp.
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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.
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Historical Sociopragmatics

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009) 145 pp.
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Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell

Edited by Jason Finch, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen and Brita Wårvik

Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell’s literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell’s theory of literature draws strength from the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 190] 2009. xi, 160 pp.
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Humor in Interaction

Edited by Neal R. Norrick and Delia Chiaro

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to humor in interaction. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives, but all concerned with interactional aspects of humor. The contributors are scholars active both in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 182] 2009. xvii, 238 pp.
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Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen

Edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 189] 2009. xiii, 240 pp.
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Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama

Gabriella Mazzon

This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 185] 2009. ix, 228 pp.
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Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability

Edda Weigand

With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 5] 2009. viii, 410 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction

Eric Friginal

The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.
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Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts

Edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Vally Lytra

Special issue of Pragmatics 19:3 (2009) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics

Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg

Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 17] 2009. vi, 124 pp.
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Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew discourse markers

Yael Maschler

Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk. Based on close analysis of naturally-occurring Hebrew conversation, it is a synchronic study of the grammaticization of discourse markers, a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 181] 2009. xvi, 258 pp.
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Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese

Ana Lúcia Santos

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the… read more
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures

Eva Ogiermann

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 191] 2009. x, 296 pp.
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Oral History: The challenges of dialogue

Edited by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Krzysztof Zamorski

Oral History: The Challenges of Dialogue shows contemporary oral history at work in a variety of contexts, levels, and engagements. The issues developed in the book correspond to different stages of research: preparing and conducting the interview, evaluating and analyzing the collected material,… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 10] 2009. xviii, 224 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Interaction

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] 2009. xiii, 262 pp.
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The Role of Phonology in Reading

Edited by Martina Penke

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 11:2 (2009) 150 pp.
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The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case

Edited by Jóhanna Barðdal and Shobhana L. Chelliah

The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 108] 2009. xx, 432 pp.
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Spanish Maintenance and Loss in the U.S. Southwest

Edited by Daniel J. Villa and Susana Rivera-Mills

Special issue of Spanish in Context 6:1 (2009) 156 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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The Texture of Discourse: Towards an outline of connectivity theory

Jan Renkema

The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse? The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the… read more
[Not in series, 151] 2009. xi, 213 pp.
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Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure

Edited by Sang-Oak Lee

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 12:2 (2009) iv, 134 pp.
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Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective

Edited by Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen

Despite its potential influence on the standard language, there is still relatively little written about the language of the young. This book gives new insight into some important areas of their language, such as identity construction reflected, for instance, in prosodic patterns and language… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 184] 2009. vi, 206 pp.
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Youth language at the intersection: From migration to globalization

Edited by Mary Bucholtz and Elena Skapoulli

Special issue of Pragmatics 19:1 (2009) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Wiebke Ramm

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 98] 2008. vi, 359 pp.
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(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts

Edited by Diana Bravo

Special issue of Pragmatics 18:4 (2008) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs: Optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS

Edited by Piet Swanepoel and Hans Hoeken

The question of what constitutes effective health communication has been addressed mainly by scholars working in American and European cultural contexts. Many people who could benefit most from effective health communication, however, come from different cultures. A prime example is the threat… read more
[Not in series, 140] 2008. v, 178 pp.
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Analysing Identities in Discourse

Edited by Rosana Dolón and Júlia Todolí

The discursive construction of identity is often under the control of the dominant forces in society and frequently results in forms of manipulation and abuse. This awareness led to the celebration of the First International Conference on CDA (València 2004), where over three-hundred academics… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Branding Political Entities in a Globalised World

Edited by Bessie Mitsikopoulou

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 7:3 (2008) v, 156 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Constraints in Discourse

Edited by Anton Benz and Peter Kühnlein

It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 172] 2008. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric

Edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout and William Rozycki

This volume explores contrastive rhetoric for audiences in both ESL contexts and international EFL contexts, exposing the newest developments in theories of culture and discourse and pushing the boundaries beyond any previously staked ground. The book presents a comprehensive set of empirical… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 169] 2008. viii, 324 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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.
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Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Randi Reppen

This book brings together contributions from a diverse collection of scholars who explore different ways of combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, studying discourse at the prosodic, lexical, and textual levels. Both spoken and written discourse are investigated in a variety of… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 31] 2008. vi, 295 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Corpus and Context: Investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse

Svenja Adolphs

Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora. The book articulates the challenges and opportunities associated with a change of focus in corpus research, from… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 30] 2008. xi, 151 pp.
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Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach

Lynne Flowerdew

This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from genre analysis and systemic-functional grammar are also applied to the analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern, thus moving towards a more… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 29] 2008. xi, 179 pp.
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A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)

Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves and Martin Warren

The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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Dialogue and Rhetoric

Edited by Edda Weigand

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 2] 2008. xiv, 316 pp.
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Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics

Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell

This volume functions as a guide to the multidisciplinary nature of Forensic Linguistics understood in its broadest sense as the interface between language and the law. It seeks to address the links in this relatively young field between theory, method and data, without neglecting the need for new… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 5] 2008. vi, 316 pp.
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Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer

Edited by Sonia Zyngier, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies and looks at them from an intercultural perspective by bringing together renowned scholars from the fields of philosophy, sociology,… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 5] 2008. xii, 357 pp.
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Discourse, Vision, and Cognition

Jana Holšánová

While there is a growing body of psycholinguistic experimental research on mappings between language and vision on a word and sentence level, there are almost no studies on how speakers perceive, conceptualise and spontaneously describe a complex visual scene on higher levels of discourse. This… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 23] 2008. xiii, 202 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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Email Hoaxes: Form, function, genre ecology

Theresa Heyd

How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one of the central questions in studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC). This book addresses the issue of genrefication by giving an in-depth analysis of email hoaxes as a candidate for digital genre status. Email hoaxes are deceptive… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 174] 2008. vii, 239 pp.
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Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management

Edited by Henrik Høeg Müller and Alex Klinge

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication. The articles can be divided roughly into five… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] 2008. xviii, 369 pp.
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Highlights of Vision Plus 12: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results

Edited by Lennart Strand and Peter Simlinger

Special issue of Information Design Journal 16:3 (2008) 112 pp.
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Impoliteness in Interaction

Derek Bousfield

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness'… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 167] 2008. xiii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez

This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175] 2008. xxii, 364 pp.
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Learning Technologies and Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 16:2 (2008) 232 pp.
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Mediating Discourse Online

Edited by Sally Magnan Pierce

Information and communication technology is transforming our notion of literacy. In the study of second language learning, there is an acute need to understand how learners collaborate in mediating discourse online. This edited volume offers essays and research studies that lead us to question the… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 3] 2008. vii, 364 pp.
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Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction

Edited by Todd Oakley and Anders Hougaard

The cognitive theory of mental spaces and conceptual integration (MSCI) is a twenty-year-old, cross-disciplinary enterprise that presently unfolds in academic circles on many levels of reflection and research. One important area of inquiry where MSCI can be of immediate use is in the pragmatics of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 170] 2008. vi, 262 pp.
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Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives

Edited by Erich A. Berendt

In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT) research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies of others and even less systematic comparative work. This volume focuses on the discourse domain of LEARNING (formal, technical and informal aspects) and brings together a variety of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 22] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
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Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals

J. César Félix-Brasdefer

This book explores the issue of politeness phenomena and socially appropriate behavior in two societies, Mexico and the United States, in three different contexts: refusing invitations, requests, and suggestions. In addition to a state-of-the-art review of the speech act of refusals in numerous… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 171] 2008. xiv, 195 pp.
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Positioning in Media Dialogue: Negotiating roles in the news interview

Elda Weizman

This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 3] 2008. xiv, 208 pp.
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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
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Request Strategies: A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

Yong-Ju Rue and Grace Zhang

This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp.
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Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text

Edited by Barbara Johnstone and Christopher Eisenhart

The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies. Rhetoric in Detail shows how a variety of techniques from discourse analysis can be useful in studying such concerns as agency, legitimation, controversy, and style, and how… read more
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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
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The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis

Edited by John H. Powers and Xiaosui Xiao

When the SARS virus began its spread from southern China around the world in spring 2003, it caught regional and international health officials by surprise. The SARS epidemic itself lasted for only a few months, whereas its treatment, in communicative terms, keeps providing us with important… read more
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Speech Acts in the History of English

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
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Style Shifting in Japanese

Edited by Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono

This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies—including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics—to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 180] 2008. vii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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Taboo in Advertising

Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas

Taboos are much more than just a synonym of ‘forbidden’. Proof of the concept’s complexity can be found in the way ads often try to hide the taboo inherent to their products or, conversely, in the way certain taboo readings are foregrounded on purpose in other ads. This volume shows why and how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 179] 2008. xix, 214 pp.
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Textual Translation and Live Translation: The total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema

Fernando Poyatos

After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of… read more
[Not in series, 142] 2008. xix, 365 pp.
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What We Remember: The construction of memory in military discourse

Mariana Achugar

This interdisciplinary monograph explores the discursive manifestations of the conflict over how to remember and interpret the actions of the military during the last dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). Through the exploration of the discursive ways in which this powerful group represents past… read more
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The discourse of news management

Edited by Geert Jacobs and Henk Pander Maat

Special issue of Pragmatics 18:1 (2008) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Silence in Intercultural Communication

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Perceptions and performance

Ikuko Nakane

How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic, cognitive… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 166] 2007. xii, 240 pp.
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Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

Technology has long been a helpful aid in human cognitive activities. With its growing sophistication and usage, technology is now taking a more intrinsic and active role in human cognition. The shift from an external aid to being an internal component of cognitive processing reflects a revolution… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 12] 2007. xii, 186 pp.
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Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items: The lexicalisation of communication concepts in English, German and Dutch

Kristel Proost

This volume deals with the occurrence of lexical gaps in the domain of linguistic action verbs. Though these constitute a considerable proportion of the verb inventory of many languages, not all concepts of verbal communication may be expressed by lexical items in any particular one of them.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 168] 2007. xii, 304 pp.
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Connectives as Discourse Landmarks

Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart

This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.
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Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.
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Constraints on Spelling Changes

Edited by Guido Nottbusch and Eliane Segers

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 10:2 (2007) 162 pp.
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Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro

Edited by Anita Fetzer

This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 162] 2007. vi, 265 pp.
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Creativity and Convention: The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech

Rosa E. Vega Moreno

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 156] 2007. xii, 249 pp.
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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.
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Dialogue and Culture

Edited by Marion Grein and Edda Weigand

The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 1] 2007. xii, 262 pp.
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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.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Discourse of Child Counselling

Ian Hutchby

This book is an empirical study of naturally occurring interaction between child counselling professionals and young children experiencing parental separation or divorce. Based on tape recordings of the work of a London child counselling practice, it offers the reader a unique and sustained look… read more
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The Discourse of Europe: Talk and text in everyday life

Edited by Sharon Millar and John Wilson

In this volume we approach the question of what it is to be European by considering the way in which citizens talk about their everyday lives, as they are perceived against the background of Europe and European issues. Hence, the volume will offer insights into the rarely glimpsed micro political… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure

Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 28] 2007. xii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Discourse, Cognition and Communication

Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders and Leo Lentz

Special issue of Information Design Journal 15:3 (2007) ii, 107 pp.
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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
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Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing

Edited by Christopher S. Butler, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López

This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 85] 2007. xxx, 481 pp.
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Grammar in Use across Time and Space: Deconstructing the Japanese ‘dative subject’ construction

Misumi Sadler

This monograph contains the first systematic investigation of the Japanese ‘dative subject’ construction across time and space. It demonstrates that, in order to capture what speakers/writers know about how to put an utterance or a clause together, it is necessary to pay attention to what they do… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 20] 2007. xiv, 212 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction

Edited by Franz Pöchhacker and Miriam Shlesinger †

This volume – the first-ever collection of research on healthcare interpreting – centers on three interrelated themes: cross-cultural communication in healthcare settings, the interactional role of persons serving as interpreters and the discourse patterns of interpreter-mediated interaction. The… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 9] 2007. viii, 155 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Pragmatics
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Historical Changes in Japanese: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Edited by Noriko O. Onodera and Ryoko Suzuki

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:2 (2007) 176 pp.
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The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor

Wallace Chafe

The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 3] 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
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Insistent Images

Edited by Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer

Insistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 5] 2007. xiii, 361 pp.
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Language as Action

Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Letter Writing

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.
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Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse: Exploring the multiplicity of self, perspective, and voice

Senko K. Maynard

Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 159] 2007. xvi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?

Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007) 224 pp.
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Metapragmatics in Use

Edited by Wolfram Bublitz and Axel Hübler

This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 165] 2007. viii, 301 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 6] 2007. vi, 271 pp.
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The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation

Axel Hübler

This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 154] 2007. x, 281 pp.
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Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Gerda Eva Lauerbach

This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 160] 2007. viii, 379 pp.
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Power and Narrative

Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.
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Pragmatic Interfaces

Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:1 (2007) 236 pp.
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Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse

Edited by Michael Bamberg, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research.… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 9] 2007. x, 355 pp.
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Small Stories, Interaction and Identities

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 8] 2007. xi, 185 pp.
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The Soft Power of War

Edited by Lilie Chouliaraki

This book, which was originally published as a Special Issue of Journal of Language & Politics 4:1 (2005), takes the war in Iraq as an exemplary case through which to demonstrate the changing nature of contemporary power. The book convincingly argues that the effective study of international… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 3] 2007. x, 148 pp.
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Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction

Edited by Robert Englebretson

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explore the situated, pragmatic, and interactional character of stancetaking, and present new models and conceptions of stance to spark future… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] 2007. viii, 323 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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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.
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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.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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Turn continuation in cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Tsuyoshi Ono

Special issue of Pragmatics 17:4 (2007) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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A closer look at cultural difference: 'Interculturality' in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Christina Higgins

Special issue of Pragmatics 17:1 (2007) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Academic Voices: Across languages and disciplines

Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Dahl and Torodd Kinn

This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 148] 2006. x, 309 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Address from a World Perspective

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2006) 126 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column

Miriam A. Locher

Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as ‘Lucy Answers’. The discursive practice investigated is part of a professional and educational health program managed by an American university. The study provides… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 149] 2006. xvi, 277 pp.
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Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes

Edited by Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora

Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern… read more
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Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije

This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 144] 2006. vi, 339 pp.
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Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical cohesion in English discourse

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 146] 2006. ix, 192 pp.
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Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts: Case studies

Edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert †

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006) 162 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Distributed Cognition

Edited by Stevan Harnad and Itiel E. Dror

Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than any of us could have done individually. But something radically new is happening to distributed… read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.
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Emotive Communication in Japanese

Edited by Satoko Suzuki

It has become well recognized that affective dimensions of language constitute an integral part of the linguistic system. Japanese provides a prime example of the significance of emotivity as it has grammaticalized a wide variety of expressions to communicate affective information. The collected… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 151] 2006. x, 234 pp.
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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †

The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved… read more
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Features of Naturalness in Conversation

Martin Warren

The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 152] 2006. x, 272 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Goals for Academic Writing: ESL students and their instructors

Edited by Alister Cumming

This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 15] 2006. xii, 204 pp.
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Historical Courtroom Discourse

Edited by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:2 (2006) 160 pp.
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Language Variation and Change: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Edited by Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart

Special issue of Spanish in Context 3:1 (2006) 168 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Languages of the Internet

Edited by Claudio Menezes

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 5:2 (2006) 151 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies

Edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard

While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis,… read more
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Narrative – State of the Art

Edited by Michael Bamberg

This special issue Narrative – State of the Art is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 articles that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with… read more
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) 236 pp
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Request Sequences: The intersection of grammar, interaction and social context

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 19] 2006. x, 125 pp.
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Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness

Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.
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Second Language Interaction

Salla Kurhila

Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 145] 2006. vii, 257 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Uralic languages
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The Spiral of ‘Anti-Other Rhetoric’: Discourses of identity and the international media echo

Élisabeth Le

How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every… read more
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Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education

Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble

Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 22] 2006. x, 203 pp.
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University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

Douglas Biber

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 23] 2006. viii, 261 pp.
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Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare

Beatrix Busse

This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare’s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 150] 2006. xviii, 525 pp.
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Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts

Leslie K. Arnovick

Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 153] 2006. xii, 292 pp.
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Argumentation in Practice

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser

Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists… read more
[Controversies, 2] 2005. viii, 368 pp.
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Beyond Rhetorical Questions: Assertive questions in everyday interaction

Irene Koshik

This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 16] 2005. x, 183 pp.

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

The Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy (METBIB) is an online bibliography which brings together references to publications on metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language, starting from 1990. It covers monographs, journal articles, book series, dissertations, theses, proceedings, working… read more
[Online Resources Collection, MetBib] 2005. ca. 10.000 records
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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.
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Calling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines

Edited by Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth

Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 143] 2005. xviii, 352 pp.
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Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

For more information on the Special Series devoted to Technology & Cognition, please see: Special Issues read more
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:3 (2005) 220 pp.
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Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization

Andrea Golato

This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 15] 2005. xi, 248 pp.
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Controversies and Subjectivity

Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal †

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical… read more
[Controversies, 1] 2005. x, 411 pp.
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Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Simone Müller

While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 138] 2005. xviii, 290 pp.
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Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World

Adrian Blackledge

In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along… read more
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Dramatized Discourse: The Mandarin Chinese ba-construction

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse… read more
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The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 (2005) 179 pp.
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From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems

Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
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Grammar and Inference in Conversation: Identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese

Michael C. Ewing

This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 18] 2005. x, 276 pp.
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Language, Communication and the Economy

Edited by Guido Erreygers and Geert Jacobs

This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Formalising structures in a controlled language

Claudia Sassen

This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 136] 2005. ix, 230 pp.
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Literacy Processes and Literacy Development

Edited by Pieter Reitsma and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 8:2 (2005) 192 pp.
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Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind

Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz

This book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This… read more
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Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations

Asher Shkedi

This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more
[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.
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Narrative Interaction

Edited by Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker

Telling stories in conversations is intricately interwoven with the interactive and local functions of story telling. Telling stories demands a certain kind of context and in itself establishes a particular interactive reality. Thus, narration is a specific kind of verbal interaction, governed by… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 5] 2005. vi, 306 pp.
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Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa

Emi Morita

Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented account… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 137] 2005. xvi, 240 pp.
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A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more
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Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik

This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.
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Outside-In — Inside-Out

Edited by Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky

This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity ‘inside-out’, some suggesting that ‘less-is-more’; others focus on the cognitive factors ‘inside’ the… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 4] 2005. x, 427 pp.
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Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach

Edited by Helena Halmari and Tuija Virtanen

Persuasion, in its various linguistic forms, enters our lives daily. Politicians and the news media attempt to change or confirm our beliefs, while advertisers try to bend our tastes toward buying their products. Persuasion goes on in courtrooms, universities, and the business world. Persuasion… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles

Edited by Susanne Mühleisen and Bettina Migge

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
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Power Without Domination: Dialogism and the empowering property of communication

Edited by Eric Grillo

The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach of the discursive dimension of power. It challenges the usual conception of discourse and power that underlies most of the current theories in contemporary discourse analysis, and shows that it is unsatisfying in so far as it reduces power to… read more
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The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit: On Robert B. Brandom

Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1 (2005) 257 pp.
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Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640–1760): A sociopragmatic analysis

Dawn Archer

This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 135] 2005. xiv, 374 pp.
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Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America

Teun A. van Dijk

This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text… read more
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The Rhetoric of Philosophy

Shai Frogel

The book claims that philosophy can be defined by its distinct rhetoric. This rhetoric is shaped by two values: humanism and critique. Humanism is defined as preferring the individual human deliberation to any external authority or method. Self-conviction is the touchstone of truth in philosophy.… read more
[Controversies, 3] 2005. x, 156 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.
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Speech and Thought Presentation in French: Concepts and strategies

Sophie Marnette

This book analyses and describes Speech and Thought Presentation (S&TP) in French from a broad theoretical perspective, building bridges between linguistic, stylistic and narratological frameworks that have until now been developed separately. It combines the French théorie de l’énonciation and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 133] 2005. xiv, 379 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
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Strategies in Academic Discourse

Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting

This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Syntax
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The Syntax–Discourse Interface: Representing and interpreting dependency

Petra B. Schumacher

This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency. It provides an account of dependency relations by focusing on the representation and interpretation of referentially dependent elements, particularly regular reflexives, logophors, and pronouns. First, the… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 80] 2005. xii, 259 pp.
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Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community

Jack Sidnell

Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 pp.
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Written Communication across Cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres

Yunxia Zhu

Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 141] 2005. xviii, 216 pp.
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(Mis)Representing Islam: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers

John Richardson

(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of ‘social practices’, ‘discursive practices’ and the ‘texts’… read more
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Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish

Maite Taboada

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other’s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.
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The Composition of Meaning: From lexeme to discourse

Edited by Alice G.B. ter Meulen and Werner Abraham

In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 255] 2004. vi, 230 pp.
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Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense

Edited by Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews

Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 4] 2004. x, 381 pp.
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Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation

Edited by Gene H. Lerner

This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 125] 2004. x, 300 pp.
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse

Edited by Paul Bayley

The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity… read more
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De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting: Interpreters in the Ivory Tower?

Ebru Diriker

This groundbreaking study explores Simultaneous Conference Interpreting (SI) by focusing on interpreters as professionals working in socio-cultural contexts and on the interdependency between these contexts and actual SI behavior. While previous research on SI has been dominated by cognitive and… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 53] 2004. x, 223 pp.
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Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic

This volume brings together for the first time research by linguists working in cross-linguistic discourse analysis and by second language researchers working in the contrastive rhetoric tradition. The collection of articles by prominent authors and younger scholars encompasses a variety of… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 68] 2004. vi, 366 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
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Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Pragmatics
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The Discourse of Court Interpreting: Discourse practices of the law, the witness and the interpreter

Sandra Hale

This book explores the intricacies of court interpreting through a thorough analysis of the authentic discourse of the English-speaking participants, the Spanish-speaking witnesses and the interpreters. Written by a practitioner, educator and researcher, the book presents the reader with real… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 52] 2004. xviii, 267 pp.
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The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication

Marisa Cordella

This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.
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Emotion in Dialogic Interaction: Advances in the complex

Edited by Edda Weigand

This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Emotion in Dialogic Interaction’ at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ‘emotion in dialogic interaction’ is mostly addressed by reducing the… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 248] 2004. xii, 284 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Focus Structure in Generative Grammar: An integrated syntactic, semantic and intonational approach

Carsten Breul

The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 68] 2004. x, 430 pp.
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Gender, Language and Culture: A study of Japanese television interview discourse

Lidia Tanaka

This book analyzes the relationship between gender, age and role in Japanese television interviews. It covers a wide range of topics on Japanese communication; cultural and gender variables are interwoven in the interpretation of the findings. The study shows how participants interact through… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 69] 2004. xvii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction

Bernadette Vine

The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 pp.
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Introduction to Discourse Studies

Jan Renkema

Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European… read more
[Not in series, 124] 2004. x, 363 pp.
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Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis

Noriko O. Onodera

This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 132] 2004. xiv, 253 pp.
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Letter Writing

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.
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The Moving Text: Localization, translation, and distribution

Anthony Pym

For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 49] 2004. xviii, 223 pp.
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Multilingual Communication

Edited by Juliane House and Jochen Rehbein

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 3] 2004. viii, 359 pp.
Other subjects Multilingualism | Pragmatics
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Narrative Counselling: Social and linguistic processes of change

Peter Muntigl

What actually happens in counselling interactions? How does counselling bring about change? How do clients end up producing new and alternative stories of their lives and relationships? By addressing these questions and others, Peter Muntigl explores the narrative counselling process in the context… read more
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Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders

Edited by Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu

Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding Borders surveys a broad range of expository, polemical, and analytical literary forms that came into prominence during the last two decades of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth. They stand in contrast to better-known romantic fiction… read more
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Perspectives on Multimodality

Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher

This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 6] 2004. x, 249 pp.
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Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative: The case of English and Catalan

Montserrat González

This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 122] 2004. xvi, 409 pp.
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Process and Acquisition of Written Language

Edited by Robert Schreuder and Ludo Verhoeven

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:1 (2004) iv, 132 pp.
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Recontextualizing Context: Grammaticality meets appropriateness

Anita Fetzer

In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 121] 2004. x, 272 pp.
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Relationality: Discursive constructions of Asian Pacific American identities

Edited by Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes

Special issue of Pragmatics 14:2/3 (2004) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation

Edited by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Cecilia E. Ford

This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 62] 2004. viii, 406 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Pragmatics
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Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus

Laura Callahan

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.
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Stance in Talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles

Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu

Guided by the methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this book explores how participants in Mandarin conversation display stance in the unfolding development of action and interaction, and, in particular, how this is accomplished through the use of two Mandarin final particles. Through a close… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 117] 2004. xvi, 260 pp.
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Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals: A survey of style and grammatical metaphor

Inger Lassen

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 4] 2003. xviii, 183 pp.
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The Art of Commemoration: Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising

Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer

The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of… read more
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Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person

Edited by Friedrich Lenz

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 112] 2003. xiv, 279 pp.
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Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse

Michele Durocher Dunne

When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people… read more
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Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.
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Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 110] 2003. viii, 338 pp.
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Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern

Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari

Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.
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Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the language of displacement

Edited by Lynn Thiesmeyer

Silencing is not only a physically coercive act. It is also an act of language involving forms of selection, representation and compliance. Discourse and Silencing weaves together theories and examples of discourse from different disciplines in order to put forward a theory of silencing in… read more
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Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization

Rick A.M. Iedema

This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 5] 2003. xiv, 234 pp.
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Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanuel A. Schegloff presents an in-depth view on Schegloff’s complex and stimulating work in Conversation Analysis (CA) and offers clear insights into how it has and may be developed further as a research tool in social psychology, social science,… read more
[Not in series, 118] 2003. xiv, 192 pp.
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Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese

Shigeko Nariyama

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features. For this reason, recovering ellipted reference has been a perplexing problem in the analysis of these languages.This book… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 66] 2003. xvi, 400 pp.
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Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think

Elise Kärkkäinen

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 115] 2003. xii, 213 pp.
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Ethnography, discourse, and hegemony

Edited by Jan Blommaert †, James Collins, Monica Heller, Ben Rampton, Stef Slembrouck and Jef Verschueren

Special issue of Pragmatics 13:1 (2003) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Framing and Perspectivising in Discourse

Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer

In discourse, verbal messages are framed: speakers offer cues on the basis of which hearers are able to anchor the verbal message to the context. Furthermore, speakers cannot contribute to the discourse without at the same time showing their view on the subject matter of the discourse: the content… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 111] 2003. viii, 227 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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From Sign to Signing

Wolfgang G. Müller and Olga Fischer

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 3] 2003. xiv, 441 pp.
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Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse

Anna De Fina

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction. The data for the book are Mexican immigrants' personal experience narratives and… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 3] 2003. xiv, 252 pp.
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Implicatures in Discourse: The case of Spanish NP anaphora

Sarah E. Blackwell

Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora. Blackwell argues that the use of anaphoric expressions may be considered conversational implicatures that give rise to inferences of coreference and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 105] 2003. xvi, 303 pp.
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Intercultural Conversation

Winnie Cheng

This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 118] 2003. xii, 279 pp.
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Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, informational and functional structures

Kazuko Matsumoto

This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic, informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 65] 2003. xviii, 212 pp.
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Joint Utterance Construction in Japanese Conversation

Makoto Hayashi

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis as a central framework, this book describes in detail the structures and procedures used by Japanese speakers to… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 12] 2003. xii, 249 pp.
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Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz

Edited by Susan L. Eerdmans, Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault

This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot… read more
[Not in series, 117] 2003. xii, 171 pp.
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Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America

Patricia Mayes

Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations – Japanese and American… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 109] 2003. xiv, 228 pp.
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Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence

Shonna L. Trinch

In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more
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Narratives We Organize By

Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi

This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology.… read more
[Advances in Organization Studies, 11] 2003. x, 276 pp.
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On the Discourse of Satire: Towards a stylistic model of satirical humour

Paul Simpson

This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour. Combining a range of theoretical frameworks in stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, Simpson examines both the methods of textual composition and the strategies of interpretation for satire. Verbal irony is… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 2] 2003. xiv, 242 pp.
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Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium

Edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 114] 2003. xii, 400 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Preferred Argument Structure: Grammar as architecture for function

Edited by John W. Du Bois, Lorraine E. Kumpf and William J. Ashby

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure. In his original publication on Preferred Argument Structure, Du Bois (1987) demonstrated the power of this perspective by using it to explain the origins of ergativity and… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 14] 2003. ix, 458 pp.
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Re/reading the past: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value

Edited by J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak

Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives… read more
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Rethinking Communicative Interaction: New interdisciplinary horizons

Edited by Colin B. Grant

This volume breaks open traditional disciplinary confines and approaches the full complexity of communicative interaction from an impressive range of exciting state-of-the-art perspectives in social psychology, conversation analysis, hermeneutics, constructivist psychology, communication theory,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 116] 2003. viii, 330 pp.
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Ritual Language Behaviour

Edited by Marcel Bax

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:2 (2003) iv, 185 pp.
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Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.
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Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and face-to-face interaction

Diana Boxer

Diana Boxer’s Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an additional chapter on cross-cultural… read more
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Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity

Ingrid Piller

This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 25] 2002. xii, 315 pp.
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Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project

Edited by Roger D. Sell

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.
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The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies

Edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith

This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective,… read more
[Advances in Organization Studies, 10] 2002. xxviii, 251 pp.
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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are… read more
[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
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Creole Discourse: Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles

Susanne Mühleisen

Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige… read more
[Creole Language Library, 24] 2002. xiv, 331 pp.
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English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus

Karin Aijmer

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 10] 2002. xvi, 298 pp.
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Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis

Edited by Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse

Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.
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Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Kate Beeching

This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.
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The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 48] 2002. xviii, 551 pp.
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Information Design: An introduction

Rune Pettersson

The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended messages.Information Design – An introduction includes chapters… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 3] 2002. x, 296 pp.
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Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse

Senko K. Maynard

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
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Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 1: Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation

Fernando Poyatos

In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space and time, identifying the semiotic and interactive problems… read more
[Not in series, NCAD 1] 2002. xxvi, 371 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction

Fernando Poyatos

Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech. Volume 2 builds on Poyatos’ book Paralanguage (1993) – reviewed by Mary Key as “the most amplified description of paralanguage available today”. It covers our basic voice components; the many normal or abnormal voice types; the… read more
[Not in series, NCAD 2] 2002. xviii, 458 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 3: Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation

Fernando Poyatos

This volume, based on the first two, identifies the verbal and nonverbal personal and environmental components of narrative and dramaturgic texts and the cinema — recreated in the first through the ‘reading act’ according to gaze mechanism and punctuation — and traces the coding-decoding processes… read more
[Not in series, NCAD 3] 2002. xx, 287 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics

Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: 3 Volumes (set)

Fernando Poyatos

The interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies is covered in these three volumes in a great variety of aspects, including sensory exchanges, intercultural communication and problems, and the deeper levels of personal as well as person-environment interactions. Taking roots in… read more
[Not in series, NCAD S] 2002. 1180 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse

Edited by Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer

‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 9] 2002. vi, 400 pp.
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Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation

Joanne Scheibman

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.
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Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse

Edited by Paul Chilton and Christina Schäffner

Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains

Edited by Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador

The present volume unites 15 papers on reported discourse from a wide genetic and geographical variety of languages. Besides the treatment of traditional problems of reported discourse like the classification of its intermediate categories, the book reflects in particular how its grammatical,… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 52] 2002. xii, 425 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Typology
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Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Christiane Meierkord

This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 103] 2002. vi, 300 pp.
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Separate and Unequal: Judicial rhetoric and women's rights

Huang Hoon Chng

This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of four U.S. Supreme… read more
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Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures

Edited by K.K. Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 101] 2002. x, 290 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies

Edited by Max M. Louwerse and Willie van Peer

Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in… read more
Other subjects Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
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Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures

Edited by Anna Duszak †

It is natural for people to make the distinction between in-group (Us) and out-group members (Others). What is it that brings people together, or keeps them apart? Ethnicity, nationality, professional expertise or life style? And, above all, what is the role of language in communicating solidarity… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 98] 2002. viii, 517 pp.
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Communicative Organization in Natural Language: The semantic-communicative structure of sentences

Igor Mel’čuk

The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 57] 2001. xii, 393 pp.
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Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.
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Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling

Ilana Mushin

This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
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Linguistic Approaches to Poetry

Edited by Christine Michaux and Marc Dominicy

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
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[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 15] 2001. viii, 228 pp.
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Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized

Roger D. Sell

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D.… read more
[Not in series, 108] 2001. x, 431 pp.
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The Motivated Sign

Edited by Olga Fischer and Max Nänny

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999), offers a selection of papers given at the second international symposium on iconicity (Amsterdam 1999). In the light of semiotic, linguistic and literary theory the studies gathered here investigate how iconicity works on all levels of language,… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 2] 2001. xiv, 387 pp.
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Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Strömqvist

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 23] 2001. viii, 430 pp.
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Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture

Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh

How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
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Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction

Edited by Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal †

The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 214] 2001. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey

Edited by Mike Scott and Geoff Thompson †

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are… read more
[Not in series, 107] 2001. viii, 323 pp.
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Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer

Edited by István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] 2001. xxii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Reading and Writing Public Documents

Edited by Daniël Janssen and Rob Neutelings

Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.Document… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 1] 2001. vi, 304 pp.
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Reanimated Voices: Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective

Daniel E. Collins

Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 380 pp.
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Speaking in Other Voices: An ethnography of Walloon puppet theaters

Joan Gross

Linking actual instances of language use with structures of social power in francophone Belgium, Gross outlines the history and contemporary configuration of rod puppetry in Liège. The analysis of this working class performance art moves between what occurs on and off stage. As puppeteers speak in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 91] 2001. xxviii, 339 pp.
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The Structure of Arguments

Izchak M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Tamar Parush

An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 7] 2001. xx, 263 pp.
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Studies in Interactional Linguistics

Edited by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10] 2001. viii, 438 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax
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Syntax in the Making: The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish conversation

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 9] 2001. xiv, 175 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Syntax | Uralic languages
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Web Site Design is Communication Design

Thea M. van der Geest

Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and… read more
[Document Design Companion Series, 2] 2001. viii, 165 pp.
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When Listeners Talk: Response tokens and listener stance

Rod Gardner

Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 92] 2001. xxi, 289 pp.
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Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance

Edited by Valentina Pagliai and Marcia Farr

Special issue of Pragmatics 10:1 (2000) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk

Neal R. Norrick

This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.
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Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora

Edited by Simon Philip Botley and Tony McEnery

Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 3] 2000. vi, 257 pp.
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Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 198] 2000. xxii, 240 pp.
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Getting Acquainted in Conversation: A study of initial interactions

Jan Svennevig

What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 64] 2000. x, 383 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse

Esam N. Khalil

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.
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Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 19] 2000. xxiv, 448 pp.
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Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies

Rosina Márquez Reiter

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.
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Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism

Roger D. Sell

This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume III

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 3] 2000. viii, 282 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude

Edited by Gisle Andersen and Thorstein Fretheim

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 79] 2000. viii, 269 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Typology
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Students Writing in the University: Cultural and epistemological issues

Edited by Carys Jones, Joan Turner and Brian Street

This volume aims to raise awareness of the underlying complexities concerning student writing in the universities. The authors address a series of theoretical as well as practical questions regarding the literacies required of students in Higher Education, from the perspective of both students… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 8] 2000. xxiv, 232 pp.
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Terminology and Language Planning: An alternative framework of practice and discourse

Bassey E. Antia

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. With respect to terminology, this book suggests… read more
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Textual Parameters in Older Languages

Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler

Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.
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Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.
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Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it. Selected papers from the International Workshop on Coherence, Augsburg, 24-27 April 1997

Edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a ‘rather mystical notion’. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation, this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. The general bibliography which concludes… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 63] 1999. xiv, 300 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more
[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.
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Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997

Edited by Karen Van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik and Leo Noordman

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 176] 1999. vi, 187 pp.
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Form Miming Meaning

Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer

The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
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Historical Dialogue Analysis

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft

Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.
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Ideologies of politeness

Edited by Manfred Kienpointner

Special issue of Pragmatics 9:1 (1999) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Information Structure in Parallel Texts

Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Stig Johansson and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

Papers originally presented at the symposium ‘Languages in Contrast: Information structure in parallel texts,’ which focused on text-linguistic aspects of parallel texts and of original texts compared to translations. read more
Special issue of Languages in Contrast 2:1 (1999) 
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Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997

Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen

This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 175] 1999. viii, 226 pp.
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Metonymy in Language and Thought

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden

Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 4] 1999. vii, 423 pp.
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Negotiated Interaction in Target Language Classroom Discourse

Jamila Boulima

This book addresses some of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely1. What is negotiated interaction?2. What are the main discourse functions of negotiated interaction?3. How frequent is negotiated interaction in TL… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 51] 1999. xiv, 338 pp.
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Negotiating Agreement and Disagreement in Japanese: Connective expressions and turn construction

Junko Mori

On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of ‘Conversation Analysis’, this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing body of research on ‘interaction and grammar’ by examining how… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 8] 1999. xii, 240 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume II

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 2] 1999. viii, 163 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Preformulating the News: An analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases

Geert Jacobs

Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre’s peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 60] 1999. xviii, 428 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Text and Context in Functional Linguistics

Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy

The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 169] 1999. xviii, 340 pp.
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Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation: A Study in Grammar and Interaction

Hiroko Tanaka

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 56] 1999. xiv, 242 pp.
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Approaching Dialogue: Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives

Per Linell

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics,… read more
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Clinical interviews as verbal interactions

Edited by Michèle Grossen and Anne Salazar-Orvig

Special issue of Pragmatics 8:2 (1998) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Contrastive Functional Analysis

Andrew Chesterman

Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 47] 1998. viii, 230 pp.
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The Cultural Context in Business Communication

Edited by Susanne Niemeier, Charles P. Campbell and René Dirven †

The Cultural Context in Business Communication focuses on differences and similarities in business negotiations and written communication in intercultural settings. To set the scene, Edward T. Hall looks back at “culture” as an evolutionary concept and Charles Campbell explains the value of… read more
[Not in series, 87] 1998. vi, 269 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse

Lenore A. Grenoble

The role deixis plays in structuring language and its relation to the context of utterance provides the focus for an examination of information packaging in Russian discourse. The analysis is based on a model which interprets discourse as constituted by four interrelated frameworks — the linguistic… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 50] 1998. xviii, 338 pp.
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Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv

Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 57] 1998. x, 363 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourse of Silence

Dennis Kurzon

The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.
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The Function of Discourse Particles: A study with special reference to spoken standard French

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 53] 1998. xii, 418 pp.
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Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.
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Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English

Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter

This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158] 1998. viii, 347 pp.
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XI: Atlanta, Georgia, 1997

Edited by Elabbas Benmamoun, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri

The papers in this volume address core areas in contemporary Arabic linguistics: syntax, phonology, and variation studies. The papers in the syntax sections address different topics from the perspective of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) and subsequent work. The topics in this section are… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 167] 1998. viii, 231 pp.
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Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991

Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey

The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 36] 1998. xi, 272 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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Writing and Identity: The discoursal construction of identity in academic writing

Roz Ivanič

Writing is not just about conveying ‘content’ but also about the representation of self. (One of the reasons people find writing difficult is that they do not feel comfortable with the ‘me’ they are portraying in their writing. Academic writing in particular often poses a conflict of identity for… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 5] 1998. xiii, 373 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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Communicating Gender in Context

Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak

The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Conflict and violence in pragmatic research

Edited by Charles L. Briggs

Special issue of Pragmatics 7:4 (1997) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives

Edited by T. Givón

The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 34] 1997. viii, 302 pp.
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Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish

Ritva Laury

This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
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Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh

Cognitive models, perspectives, and the construction of situated meaning have always been core concepts in Cognitive Linguistics. The papers in this volume present applications of those concepts to the study of discourse phenomena like the use and interpretation of metaphors, modal expressions,… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 151] 1997. xiv, 272 pp.
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Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings

Brian Paltridge

This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 45] 1997. x, 192 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Inversion in Modern English: Form and function

Heidrun Dorgeloh

The book offers a comprehensive study of the different forms of subject-verb and subject-auxiliary-inversion in Modern English declarative sentences. It treats inversion as a speaker-based decision for reordering within a fairly rigid word order system and identifies the meaning of the construction… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 6] 1997. x, 236 pp.
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Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness

Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 12] 1997. xii, 364 pp.
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The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more
[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.
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Managing Language: The discourse of corporate meetings

Francesca Bargiela and Sandra J. Harris

The book attempts to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings? Following fieldwork in three corporations in Britain and Italy, the picture that emerges is one that challenges the widespread understanding of meetings as boring, routine events in the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 44] 1997. ix, 295 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.
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Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia

Edited by Mark Harvey and Nicholas Reid

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems. Previous analyses of nominal classification systems have focussed on two areas: the semantics of the classification system and the role of the system in discourse. In many nominal… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 37] 1997. x, 296 pp.
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Political Linguistics

Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.After a… read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 11] 1997. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Text Typology and Translation

Edited by Anna Trosborg

This book breaks new ground in translation theory and practice. The central question is: In what ways are translations affected by text types? The two main areas of investigation are: A. What are the advantages of focusing on text types when trying to understand the process of translation? How do… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 26] 1997. xvi, 345 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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Academic Writing: Intercultural and textual issues

Edited by Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen

Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 41] 1996. xiv, 258 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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Coherence and Anaphora

Edited by Walter De Mulder and Liliane Tasmowski

As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.The… read more
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 10] 1996. viii, 217 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 39] 1996. viii, 326 pp.
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Discourse and Meaning: Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová

Edited by Barbara H. Partee and Petr Sgall

A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language… read more
[Not in series, 78] 1996. xiv, 430 pp.
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Functional Descriptions: Theory in practice

Edited by Ruqaiya Hasan †, Carmel Cloran and David Butt

This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity — or case grammar, to use the popular term — has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 121] 1996. xxxvi, 381 pp.
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Interaction-based studies of language

Edited by Cecilia E. Ford and Johannes Wagner

Special issue of Pragmatics 6:3 (1996) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 2

Edited by Eva Hajičová, Oldřich Leška †, Petr Sgall and Zdena Skoumalová

Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present… read more
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Reported Speech: Forms and functions of the verb

Edited by Theo Janssen and Wim van der Wurff

In sentences containing reported speech, thought, or perception, it is possible to distinguish different voices or views, associated with different discourse roles. They originate in two different clauses: one clause signals a reporting situation, and the other a reported situation.This volume… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 43] 1996. x, 312 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A study of discourse in a close-knit social network

Julie Diamond

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 40] 1996. viii, 184 pp.
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Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, discourse, and grammar

Hongyin Tao

This book provides a new way of studying grammar. The basic thrust of the book is to investigate grammar based on a prosodic unit, the intonation unit (IU), in spontaneous speech. The author challenges the dominant practice in the study of syntax, which has been to focus on the unit of the… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 5] 1996. xvi, 226 pp.
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Coherence in Spontaneous Text

Edited by Morton Ann Gernsbacher and T. Givón

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the same episodic… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 31] 1995. x, 267 pp.
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Constructing languages and publics

Edited by Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard

Special issue of Pragmatics 5:2 (1995) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Discourse, Grammar and Typology: Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar

Edited by Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson

This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 27] 1995. xx, 352 pp.
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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert †

The Handbook of Pragmatics, published under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), provides easy access, for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with converging interests in the use and functioning of language, to the field of linguistic pragmatics, broadly… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics, M] 1995. xiv, 658 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Irony in Context

Katharina Barbe

In her book, Barbe discusses verbal irony as an interpretative notion. Verbal irony is described in its various realizations and thus placed within linguistics and pragmatics. From the point of view of an analyzing observer, Barbe provides an eclectic approach to irony in context, a study of how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 34] 1995. x, 208 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Suzanne Fleischman

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 32] 1995. viii, 575 pp.
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Word Order in Discourse

Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar.… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.
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Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom

Stanton E.F. Wortham

This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event — classroom “participant examples.” A participant example describes, as an example of something, an event that includes at least one person also participating in the conversation. Participants with a role in the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 30] 1994. xiv, 178 pp.
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Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse theory and the Convention refugee hearing

Robert F. Barsky

This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 29] 1994. x, 272 pp.
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Critical perspectives on intercultural communication

Edited by Michael Meeuwis

Special issue of Pragmatics 4:3 (1994) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Language, Discourse and Translation in the West and Middle East

Edited by Robert de Beaugrande, Abdullah Shunnaq and Mohamed Helmy Heliel

The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 7] 1994. xii, 256 pp.
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Praguiana 1945–1990

Edited by Philip A. Luelsdorff, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall

The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940s and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech;… read more
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Process, Image, and Meaning: A realistic model of the meaning of sentences and narrative texts

Wolfgang Wildgen

The general topic of this book is the development of a “realistic” model of meaning; it has to account for the ecological basis of meaning in perception, action, and interaction, and is realistic in the sense of “scientific realism”, i.e. it is based on the most successful paradigm of modern… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 31] 1994. xii, 281 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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The Syntax of Sentence and Text: A Festschrift for František Daneš

Edited by Svĕtla Čmejrková and František Štícha

This is a collection of papers inspired by the work of František Daneš and is published in honour of his 75th birthday. Daneš' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics is reflected in… read more
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Trial Language: Differential discourse processing and discursive formation

Gail Stygall

This study of Anglo-American legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of American legal language in its prototypical setting, the trial by jury. With ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial, the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 26] 1994. xii, 226 pp.
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Voice and Inversion

Edited by T. Givón

This collection aims first to establish a structure-independent, language-independent definition of pragmatic voice, and more specifically then a universal functional definition of “inverse”. The grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions — direct-active, inverse, passive,… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 28] 1994. viii, 402 pp.
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Voice: Form and Function

Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 27] 1994. xiii, 377 pp.
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Discourse Modality: Subjectivity, Emotion and Voice in the Japanese Language

Senko K. Maynard

The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 24] 1993. x, 315 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics

Discourse Studies: An introductory textbook

Jan Renkema

This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific 'toolkit' for courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of the professional literature.The book consists of four parts. read more
[Not in series, 69] 1993. x, 224 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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English Speech Rhythm: Form and function in everyday verbal interaction

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

This monograph reconsiders the question of speech isochrony, the regular recurrence of (stressed) syllables in time, from an empirical point of view. It proposes a methodology for discovering isochrony auditorily in speech and for verifying it instrumentally in the acoustic laboratory. In a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 25] 1993. x, 346 pp.
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Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford

The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more
[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
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The Middle Voice

Suzanne Kemmer

This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language.… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 23] 1993. xii, 300 pp.

Papers on Rhetoric: Volume I

Edited by Lucia Calboli Montefusco

[Not in series, POR 1] 1993. viii, 94 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds

Fernando Poyatos

This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities,… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semiotics
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Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language. Papers in honor of Gerald Sanders

Edited by Mushira Eid and Gregory Iverson

The volume is divided into four sections: typology, syntax, discourse and phonology. Two of the typology papers study the structure and organization of category systems (Joseph Greenberg, Linda Schwartz); the third discusses language typology and universals from the perspective of language… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 98] 1993. xix, 382 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Typology
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Studies in Functional Stylistics

Edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil

The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a… read more
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Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical considerations and a case study of Japanese spoken discourse

Shoichi Iwasaki

This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 2] 1993. xii, 152 pp.
Other subjects Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
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Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair

Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Text and Technology focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. The volume starts off with a description of the various British traditions in text analysis by Michael Stubbs. The first section “Spoken and… read more
[Not in series, 64] 1993. xii, 361 pp.
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Varieties of Questions in English Conversation

Elizabeth G. Weber

This book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal questions are identified functionally.… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 3] 1993. x, 252 pp.
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The Wedding Report: A prototypical approach to the study of traditional text types

Hans-Jürg Suter

Traditional text types (or genres) are complex linguistic, sociocultural and cognitive phenomena that can only be analysed in flexible interdisciplinary frameworks fusing structural and process-oriented approaches and combining quantitative description with qualitative interpretation and evaluation. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 27] 1993. xii, 314 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical… read more
[Not in series, 60] 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.
Other subjects Neurolinguistics | Pragmatics
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Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language: On cognition, functionalism, and grammar

Jan Nuyts

This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 20] 1992. xii, 399 pp.
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The Contextualization of Language

Edited by Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio

This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 22] 1992. xvi, 402 pp.
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Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text

Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson

Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 16] 1992. xiii, 409 pp.
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English Text: System and structure

J.R. Martin

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation of discourse analysis… read more
[Not in series, 59] 1992. xiv, 620 pp.
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From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction: On Left-Dislocation in English

Ronald Geluykens

This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative… read more
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 1] 1992. xii, 182 pp.
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Language ideologies

Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard

Special issue of Pragmatics 2:3 (1992) ca. 125 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Linguistics of Literacy

Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan

This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.
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Pragmatics of Word Order Flexibility

Edited by Doris L. Payne

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages.… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 22] 1992. viii, 320 pp.
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Conflict and Cooperation in Job Interviews: A study of talks, tasks and ideas

Martha L. Komter

An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews. The verbal interaction of the participants in the interviews is seen as embedded within wide ideological and institutional environments. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 15] 1991. viii, 252 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Conversation for Action: The computer terminal as medium of communication

Denise E. Murray

Today, computer-mediated communication spans a range of activities from interactive messages to word processing. Researchers interested in this new technology have concentrated on its effects in the workplace for knowledge production and dissemination or on its word processing function. The study… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 10] 1991. xii, 180 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discourse Particles: Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German

Edited by Werner Abraham

This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 12] 1991. viii, 338 pp.
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Language Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research

Edited by Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky

When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 17] 1991. vi, 342 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 2

Edited by Jef Verschueren

This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.
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The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3

Edited by Jan Blommaert † and Jef Verschueren

This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:3] 1991. viii, 249 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language

Barbara Johnstone

In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.
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Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading

Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 19] 1991. xxi, 287 pp.
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Young Children's Dyadic Pretend Play: A communication analysis of plot structure and plot generative strategies

Ursula V. Schwartz

Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world. The present study is a first detailed investigation of thematic-ideational structure in young children's dyadic pretend play with special… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 14] 1991. vi, 151 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference

Hy V. Luong

This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.
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Layers and Levels of Representation in Language Theory: A functional view

Edited by Jan Nuyts, A. Machtelt Bolkestein and Co Vet

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there. The volume focuses on the nature of the structures… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 13] 1990. xii, 348 pp.
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Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces

Jacqueline Lindenfeld

This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 7] 1990. viii, 173 pp.
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Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation

K.K. Luke

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 9] 1990. xvi, 329 pp.
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Verbal Aspect in Discourse

Edited by Nils B. Thelin

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 5] 1990. xvi, 490 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Doctor–Patient Interaction

Edited by Walburga von Raffler-Engel

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient. The questions under consideration in the present book are the following: How is the doctor-patient interaction structured in a particular culture? What takes place during the process? What causes… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 4] 1989. xxxviii, 294 pp.
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Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in political discourse

Edited by Ruth Wodak

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader… read more
[Critical Theory, 7] 1989. xx, 288 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984

Edited by Maria-Elisabeth Conte, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer

The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 16] 1989. xxiv, 584 pp.
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Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 18] 1988. xiii, 442 pp.
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The Jury Summation as Speech Genre: An ethnographic study of what it means to those who use it

Bettyruth Walter

The American courtroom trial is a speech situation. Everything occurs through the spoken word. The 'summation', as speech event embedded within the trial, which is the chronological and psychological culmination of it, is one of the few opportunities for the lawyer to communicate directly with… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 1] 1988. xvii, 264 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Nature of the Right: Feminist analysis of order patterns

Edited by Gill Seidel

This volume challenges and extends the definition of right and right-wing discourse as traditionally conceived in male scholarship. The eleven papers share a common perspective: a critique of the ideology of 'natural difference' as the basis for oppression of the dominated group. In a radical… read more
[Critical Theory, 6] 1988. ix, 183 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Prague School and Its Legacy

Edited by Yishai Tobin

Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more
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Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations: Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation

Wolfram Bublitz

This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative,… read more
[Not in series, 32] 1988. xii, 308 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Approaches to Discourse, Poetics and Psychiatry: Papers from the 1985 Utrecht Summer School of Critical Theory

Edited by Iris M. Zavala, Teun A. van Dijk and Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

A collection of innovative essays representing the most recent developments in poetry as discourse, the discourse of power, and discourse of psychiatry and psychosis. The essays in this volume deal with questions of interpretation of poetry, psychoanalysis, and political theory. All are presented… read more
[Critical Theory, 4] 1987. vi, 240 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Russell S. Tomlin

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.
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Discourse and Word Order

Olga T. Yokoyama

Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.
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Informal Fallacies

Douglas N. Walton

The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 4] 1987. x, 338 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
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It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts

Dennis Kurzon

This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:6] 1986. vii, 81 pp.
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Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach

Yukio Tsuda

This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:7] 1986. xi, 97 pp.
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Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall

Edited by Jacob L. Mey

The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more
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Strategies and Structures: The processing of relative clauses

Gary D. Prideaux and Will Baker

In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies. Once a preliminary conception of the nature of cognitive strategies and a… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 46] 1986. ix, 197 pp.
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Television Advertising and Televangelism: Discourse Analysis of Persuasive Language

Rosemarie Schmidt and Joseph F. Kess

The research reported in this volume attempts to refine our understanding of persuasive messages of television advertising by studying the role of language in persuasion in two ways. First, it comprises an attempt to refine our understanding of how language might function in persuasion by examining… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:5] 1986. vi, 88 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its ‘classic’ narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue. It is a first move toward interdisciplinary research in Dialogue Studies. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 1] 1985. xiv, 473 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Language and Action: A reassessment of Speech Act Theory

Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho

This work consists of an examination and revision of some of the main theses of Speech Act Theory in relation to the problem of ideology and action-guiding language. Starting from the idea that linguistic philosophy must take into account how the social structure of the linguistic community may… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:6] 1985. x, 165 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Pragmatics and Fiction

Jon-K. Adams

Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse. These differences derive mainly from the creation of a fictional figure who narrates the text and who, in turn, addresses his narrative to a fictional audience. Since these figures become… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:2] 1985. vi, 79 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Social Setting, Stigma, and Communicative Competence: Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults

Sharon Sabsay and Martha Platt

Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life. This has led not only to a lack of appreciation for the complexity of their lives and concerns, but also to an underestimation and incomplete understanding… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:6] 1985. vi, 137 pp.
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Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description: An analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households

Nira Reiss

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:7] 1985. x, 153 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Translating Poetic Discourse: Questions of feminist strategies in Adrienne Rich

Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women’s studies on theoretical and practical levels. It proposes key-elements to be integrated into the problem of interpretation of contemporary poetry by women, and discusses the links between… read more
[Critical Theory, 2] 1985. vii, 167 pp
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Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980s: Selected papers

Edited by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and Iris M. Zavala

The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women’s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in… read more
[Critical Theory, 1] 1985. x, 138 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semiotics
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Prejudice in Discourse: An analysis of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation

Teun A. van Dijk

In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members. After an introductory survey of traditional and more recent approaches in social psychology to the study of prejudice, a new 'sociocognitive' theory is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:3] 1984. x, 170 pp.
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Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

Roger Van de Velde

This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:2] 1984. vii, 100 pp.
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‘Well’ in Dialogue Games: A discourse analysis of the interjection ‘well’ in idealized conversation

Lauri Carlson

This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:5] 1984. ix, 104 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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The Perception of Nonverbal Behavior in the Career Interview

Walburga von Raffler-Engel

Walburga von Raffler-Engel takes a novel approach to compiling information about doctor-patient communication. She has surveyed popular literature around the world to gain a grass-roots' perception of this relationship in various cultures. Most of the contributions are by practicing physicians,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:4] 1983. viii, 148 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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Switch Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981

Edited by John Haiman † and Pamela Munro

Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 2] 1983. xv, 337 pp.
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Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study

T. Givón

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 3] 1983. v, 492 pp.
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Argumentation: Approaches to theory formation. Containing the contributions to the Groningen Conference on the Theory of Argumentation, October 1978

Edited by E.M. Barth and J.L. Martens

The contributions in the first part ‘Re-modelling logic’ of this volume take account of formal logic in the theory of ‘rational’ argumentation. Part two contains papers that distinguish the various dialogue games for logics in terms of ‘rights’ and ‘obligations’ of the players. The authors… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 8] 1982. xviii, 333 pp.
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Situation et signification

Ivan Fónagy

Ceux qui parlent une langue seconde, savent par leur propre expérience que, malgré une bonne connaissance du vocabulaire et des règles de la grammaire, ils n’arrivent pas à réagir verbalement à des situations concrètes de la même manière que ceux qui la parlent en langue maternelle. Cet ouvrage, à… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:1] 1982. v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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You Know: A discourse-functional approach

Jan-Ola Östman

The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:7] 1981. ix, 91 pp.
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'The boat's gonna leave': A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children

Anca M. Nemoianu

This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:1] 1980. vi, 116 pp.
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A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'

Michael Fortescue

This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:2] 1980. ix, 137 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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A Pragmatic Logic for Commands

Melvin Joseph Adler

The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:3] 1980. viii, 131 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics
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Talk and Taxonomy: A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors

Peter Eglin

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:8] 1980. x, 125 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semantics

Charles Morris and the Criticism of Discourse

Richard A. Fiordo

[Studies in Semiotics, 4] 1977. viii, 197 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semiotics
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