Semantik

Allegories, rhetoric, imagery, commonplaces, cliches and archetypes are discussed in connection with the literary work of authors such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Emile …

Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change In a world marked by political polarization and racial, sexist, ableist, and class-based injustices, feminist rhetorical …

A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "e;kind"e; has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. …

This edited book addresses ways in which 'bodies' conceived broadly – get languaged, and ways in which ideas of 'normalcy' and 'normal' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The …

This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore's ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering …

This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of Narratology, a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and …

Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is …

A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis:* examines a wide variety of authentic texts …

Why is it that all interpretations are possible, and none is true? That some interpretations are just, but some are false? Lecercle draws on the resources of pragmatics, literary …

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 …