Semantik

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first corpus-based account …

Kelley provides an examination of Hillary Rodham Clinton's rhetorical responses to mediated versions of crises in the Clinton Administration. She begins by examining the historical …

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression. The book …

The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain …

What do you do when you use a metaphor? Or a simile or analogy? Can you tell the difference between a synecdoche and a metonymy? What are the secret tricks used every day by …

This is a contrastive politico-linguistic study analyzing the semantic operations serving specific communication strategies in speeches by representatives of the extreme left. …

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L'Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of …

Prozesse, bei denen sprachliche Einheiten formal und in ihrer Bedeutung "abgeschw cht" werden (Kien-F hre > Kiefer), sind gut untersucht, "Verst rkungs"-Prozesse, bei denen …

Douglas Biber’s new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground-breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (1988). In it he gives a linguistic …

Reviews of the first edition:'...a work of high seriousness...manna from rhetorical heaven for students and researchers with a lot of hard graft ahead of them... '(English …