Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 388 p. An essential reference to contemporary discourse studies, this handbook offers a rigorous and systematic overview of the field, covering the key methods, research topics and new directions. Fully updated and revised throughout to take account of developments over the last decade, in particular the innovations in digital communication and new...
Gallaudet University Press, 2011. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1563685116, ISBN13: 978-1563685118. In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going on within their social and cultural contexts in face-to-face interactions. In the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 255 p. Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional 'temperature' of a variety of contemporary discourses. Adopting a number of methodological angles, both qualitative and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 365 p. 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 discursive power behind them. The...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 290 p. — (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 473). It could be alleged that present-day French linguistics is characterized by a specific connection between the epistemology of text and that of discourse. The contributions gathered in this volume aim to reconsider this link – or dichotomy? – in light of the latest research developments. They...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 348 p. Latin literature is crowded with portraits of Romans in transit, but despite this ubiquity scholars have been reluctant to read vehicles as significant conveyors of textual and cultural meaning. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. By moving past approaches that...
Routledge, 2020. — 138 p. This book presents a unique understanding of the interdependence between language and psychology and how one’s speech is shaped by and in turn shapes one’s thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Drawing on the tenets of discourse analysis and psychology, it presents a comprehensive guide to a new and burgeoning area in linguistics and critical theory. The...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 332 p. — (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 269). 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...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 308 p. 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 ideological struggle over power in...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 295 p. 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) from different perspectives,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 261 p. — (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 277). 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...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. — 312 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 213). 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,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 295 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 341). The volume aims to bring together original, unpublished papers on discourse structure and meaning from different frameworks or theoretical perspectives to address research questions revolving around issues instigated by Turkish. Another goal is to offer methodologically different...
Монография. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2022. — 368 с. — (Научная библиотека. Выпуск CCCXXXVII). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2033-9. Начало XX века в искусстве и гуманитарных науках было отмечено особым интересом к языку, запустившим процесс глубокого осмысления взаимосвязи между языком и художественным творчеством. Эта рефлексия вылилась в так называемый лингвоэстетический...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 280 p. — (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 78). 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...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 335 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 571). This volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 290 p. — (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 306). 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...
Ashgate, 2011. — 267 p. — (Law, Language and Communication). This volume presents a combination of practical, empirical research data and theoretical reflection to provide a comparative view of language and discourse in the courtroom. The work explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics can help us understand the nature of "Power and Control" - both oral and...
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