Language & Linguistics

An eminently readable analysis on the rhetoric of the 'tolerant majority' - those who view themselves as being open to a diverse society; a rhetoric that is prevalent throughout the media and political world...

The answer to the question "How can we understand and use a definition?" provides new constraints on natural language and on the internal language in which meaning is mentally represented. Most syntax takes the sentence as the basic unit for well-formedness, but definitions force us to focus on word..

The ideal entry into the study of discourse for students new to the subject...

Dialects introduces the many dialects of English spoken in the United Kingdom and reveals the key issues that dialectology engages with...

Dialogue Interpreting..

Dictionary of Translation Studies..

Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event argues for and introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. Speech events such as conversations, jokes and interviews form the basis of much discourse analytic work but they tend to be studied with the view that key social patterns are established and f..

Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event argues for and introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. Speech events such as conversations, jokes and interviews form the basis of much discourse analytic work but they tend to be studied with the view that key social patterns are established and f..

Providing a comprehensive overview of Mediated Discourse Analysis this volume considers texts in their social and cultural contexts and examines the actions individuals take with texts and the consequences of those actions...

Providing a comprehensive overview of Mediated Discourse Analysis this volume considers texts in their social and cultural contexts and examines the actions individuals take with texts and the consequences of those actions...

This book offers a corpus-based contrastive study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions...

This highly illustrated text develops the first systematic analysis of the ways we interpret language as it is materially placed in the world. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in language and the way we communicate...