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Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context

Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura

Informality is essential in human interaction as it fulfills the basic communicative need to connect with others. When and how do speakers of Japanese construct informality within so-called “formal” contexts and why do they do so? By going beyond the previous studies on speech style in Japanese,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] 2027. vi, 273 pp. + index

The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar

Edited by Monielly Serafim, Matthias Mittendorfer and Kees Hengeveld

The Interpersonal Level in Functional Discourse Grammar presents recent advancements in Functional Discourse Grammar since the framework’s introduction by Hengeveld and Mackenzie (2008). This volume refines the theory’s pragmatic level of analysis through theoretical innovation and application to… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 241] 2027. vi, 433 pp. + index

New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities

Edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła and Goran Milić

New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities, edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła, and Goran Milić, revisits a research programme first mapped out at ESSE Debrecen in 1997 and its landmark proceedings… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 82] 2027. vi, 297 pp. + index

The Affective Dynamics of Online Discourse

Edited by Anna Piata

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 9:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.

Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xxii, 382 pp.

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

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.

Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization

Edited by Guglielmo Inglese, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria

The study of the causal-noncausal alternation offers a unique window onto how languages represent causal relations and event structure. Among the strategies used to encode this alternation, anticausative markers, which overtly signal noncausal situations, have received considerably less attention… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 138] 2026. vi, 514 pp. + index

Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond

Edited by Mariaelena Bartesaghi and Shelby Forbes

Dialogues of the Clinic: Encounters across medicine and beyond is a unique anthology that centers dialogue as practice and challenge of medical encounters, taking up Mishler's famous provocation of a dichotomy between the voice of the lifeworld and the voice of medicine, or an awareness of the… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 36] 2026. ix, 259 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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, 321 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 29th Annual Installment

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

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, 29] 2026. xiii, 196 pp.

Heritage Language, Racialization, and (Post)colonialism, Part I

Edited by Jennifer B. Delfino, Sonia Das and Chantal Tetreault

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 8:1 (2026) v, 135 pp.

How to Ask (Im)politely: Letters from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the ninth to the nineteenth century

Edited by Gijsbert Rutten and Petra M. Sijpesteijn

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 27:1 (2026) v, 138 pp.

Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives

Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 228 pp.

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.

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, 302 pp.

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.

Pragmatics in African Contexts

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 17:2 (2026) v, 141 pp.

The Pragmatics of Trusting (Artificial) Others

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Bracha Nir

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 17:5 (2026) ca. 160 pp.

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, 175 pp. | open access

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.

Representing Societies in Language Teaching Textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials

Edited by David Machin, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 25:4 (2026) v, 167 pp.

Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach

Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.

This is the Thing: A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’

Michael Fortescue

This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 79] 2026. ix, 220 pp.

The Tools Factor: Tracing the future of digital newswriting

Daniel Perrin

The Tools Factor is about to dominate what people write and read, know and believe to know. In this book, we explain how digital tools and agentive AI shape – and are shaped by – text production, ethics, and creativity in the newsroom. Based on thirty years of longitudinal ethnographies in research… read more

[Aspects in Applied Linguistics, 1] 2026. x, 80 pp. | open access

“You can say you to me”: Address in German

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid

The forms of address in German and their usage have been debated for centuries, and the discussion is ongoing both in academia and in the wider public. This collection is a showcase of the current and emerging research for an international audience. The scope of topics in this volume covers German… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 7] 2026. vi, 279 pp. | open access

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.

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.

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

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.

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.

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.

Dialogicity in Framing Environmental Discourse

Edited by Marina Bondi and Judith Turnbull

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 15:1 (2025) v, 201 pp.

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.

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

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 106] 2025. xiii, 284 pp.

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.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Writing for Scholarly Publication

Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi

Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 6:2 (2025) vi, 194 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment

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

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.

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.

Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 104] 2025. xiii, 202 pp.

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

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] 2025. vii, 250 pp.

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

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 44] 2025. xi, 174 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 107] 2025. xiii, 198 pp.

Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality

Edited by Jean Albrespit, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson

Researchers in the fields of logic, philosophy and linguistics have for many years been pondering over the elusive nature of modality and grappled with ways of capturing it. This book provides a broad overview of issues relevant to the study of modality and reflects the diversity of theoretical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 237] 2025. vi, 370 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

(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.

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.

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.

Applied Narratology

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

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 34:2 (2024) v, 199 pp.

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.

Cognitive Semantics: A cultural-historical perspective

Vladimir Glebkin

The book presents two fundamental theories that characterize the cultural-historical perspective in cognitive semantics: the Four-Level Theory of Cognitive Development (FLTCD) and the Sociocultural Theory of Lexical Complexes (STLC) as well as their application to the analysis of specific material.… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 15] 2024. v, 242 pp.

A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative

Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao

Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment

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

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] 2024. xiii, 273 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices

Edited by Anna Tereszkiewicz and Magdalena Szczyrbak

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 14:2 (2024) vi, 200 pp.

Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South

Edited by Mark Nartey

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 (2024) vi, 153 pp.

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.

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.

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.

The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change

Xinyue Yao

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.

Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art

Edited by Sadia Belkhir

The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] 2024. xvi, 351 pp.

Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders: Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power

Edited by Christian Lamour and Oscar Mazzoleni

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:3 (2024) vi, 166 pp.

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.

Space, Time, World

Michael Fortescue

Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a wide selection of the world’s languages, nor do they combine SPACE and TIME in the overarching concept of WORLD, which has its own corresponding frames of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 77] 2024. viii, 223 pp

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.

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.

Trends in Second Language Pragmatics Research Part 2

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 6:2 (2024) v, 113 pp.

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.

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.

(Inter)Cultural Dialogues

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 99] 2023. xiv, 181 pp.

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

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 103] 2023. v, 212 pp.

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.

Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023)

Edited by Emma Betz, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023) vi, 176 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment

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

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 26] 2023. xiii, 187 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Manufacturing Knowledge

Edited by Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 5:2 (2023) v, 112 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] 2023. vi, 301 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 26] 2023. xv, 355 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 100] 2023. v, 210 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 101] 2023. vi, 333 pp.

The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Edited by Eva Ogiermann

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 14:2 (2023) v, 185 pp.

(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.

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.

Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.

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.

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks

Maria Brenda and Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 74] 2022. xiii, 242 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] 2022. x, 509 pp.

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.

Dialogicity in Political Discourse

Edited by Elda Weizman and Zohar Livnat

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 13:5 (2022) v, 154 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account

María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.

Formality and Informality in Online Performances

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022) v, 195 pp.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment

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

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] 2022. xiii, 256 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] 2022. xiii, 284 pp.

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.)

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 97] 2022. vi, 234 pp.

Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems

Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English

José A. Sánchez Fajardo

The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 222] 2022. xvi, 229 pp.

Poetic Metaphors: Creativity and interpretation

Carina Rasse

Poetry pushes metaphor to the limit. Consider how many different, dynamic, and interconnected dimensions (e.g., text, rhyme, rhythm, sound, and many more) a poem has, and how they all play a role in the ways (metaphorical) meaning is constructed. There is probably no other genre that relies so much… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 15] 2022. xvii, 190 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 96] 2022. vi, 222 pp.

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.

Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse

Edited by Urszula Okulska, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:2 (2022) v, 163 pp.

Trends in Second Language Pragmatics Research Part I

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 4:2 (2022) v, 80 pp.

The Typology of Physical Qualities

Edited by Ekaterina Rakhilina, Tatiana Reznikova and Daria Ryzhova

What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object, and it is typically answered with adjectives: old, smooth, pointed, narrow, etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world, regardless of when or where we live –… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 133] 2022. vi, 339 pp.

Visual Metaphors

Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid

Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 124] 2022. vi, 284 pp.

When Dialogue Fails

Edited by Anja Müller-Wood

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022) v, 168 pp.

Young researchers in action

Edited by Angeliki Tzanne

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:1 (2022) vi, 239 pp.

The dynamics of academic knowledge production: Text histories and text trajectories

Edited by Theresa Lillis and Mary Jane Curry

Special issue of Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 3:1 (2022) v, 163 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Building Categories in Interaction: Linguistic resources at work

Edited by Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini and Eugenio Goria

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 220] 2021. vi, 467 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 91] 2021. xvi, 251 pp.

Dialogic Matters: Interrelating Dialogue, the Material, and Social Change

Edited by Theresa Castor

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 11:1 (2021) v, 170 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 92] 2021. viii, 323 pp.

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.

Discourses of Fake News

Edited by Scott Wright

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 (2021) vi, 183 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 95] 2021. xvi, 212 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 90] 2021. xi, 190 pp.

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.

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.

New Developments in Relevance Theory

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.

New perspectives on conflict

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:2 (2021) v, 147 pp.

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

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] 2021. vii, 440 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 94] 2021. vi, 186 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 93] 2021. xvii, 207 pp.

Polymedia in Interaction

Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos

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

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.

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.

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.

Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet

Edited by Francisco Yus

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:1 (2021) v, 175 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Understanding Chinese Social Media

Edited by Sumin Zhao and Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021) v, 146 pp.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

Edited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi

Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 69] 2020. vii, 324 pp.

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

Dialogue and Ways of Relating

Edited by Huey-Rong Chen

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 10:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.

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.

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.

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

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 26] 2020. vi, 196 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.

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.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] 2020. xiii, 272 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 89] 2020. xv, 195 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] 2020. viii, 309 pp.

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

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 13] 2020. viii, 319 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] 2020. vi, 285 pp.

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

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.

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.

The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

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

The Pragmatics of Ritual

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:1 (2020) v, 168 pp. | open access

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 88] 2020. xi, 236 pp.

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.

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.

Categorization in multilingual storytelling

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Steven Talmy

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:3 (2019) vi, 163 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Dialogue in institutional settings

Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019) v, 190 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 86] 2019. xviii, 298 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Exploring (im)politeness in ancient languages

Edited by Kim Ridealgh

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:2 (2019) v, 144 pp.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 22] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.

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

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 10] 2019. xii, 396 pp.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Metaphor and National Identity: Alternative conceptualization of the Treaty of Trianon

Orsolya Putz

Due to the Treaty of Trianon – which was signed at the end of World War 1 in 1920 – Hungary lost two thirds of its former territory, as well as the inhabitants of these areas. The book aims to reveal why the treaty still plays a role in Hungarian national identity construction, by studying the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 11] 2019. xvii, 276 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 82] 2019. vii, 356 pp.

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

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.

Perception Metaphors

Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid

Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] 2019. vii, 382 pp.

Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:1 (2019) v, 151 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 84] 2019. vii, 268 pp.

The Politics of Sound: Intersections of Music, Discourse and Political Communication

Edited by Lyndon C.S. Way

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 18:4 (2019) vi, 175 pp.

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.

Pragmatics and its Interfaces as related to the Expression of Intention

Edited by István Kecskés

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 26:1 (2019) vi, 165 pp.

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.

Prepositions, Case and Verbal Prefixes: The case of Slavic

Petr Biskup

This monograph is concerned with prepositional elements in Slavic languages, prepositions, verbal prefixes and functional elements of prepositional nature. It argues that verbal prefixes are incorporated prepositions projecting their argument structure in the complement of the verbal root and that… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 255] 2019. vii, 231 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.

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.

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.

The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression

Edited by Michel Aurnague and Dejan Stosic

Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the expression of space in French goes back to the mid-1970s and focused first on verbs denoting changes in space, whose syntactic properties… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 66] 2019. ix, 396 pp.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 85] 2019. vi, 212 pp.

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.

“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

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.

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.

Closeness and conflict: The discourse of domestic discord across English and Spanish-speaking communities

Edited by Diana Boxer and María Elena Placencia

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:2 (2018) v, 174 pp.

Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.

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.

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.

Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues

Edited by Olga Blanco Carrión, Antonio Barcelona and Rossella Pannain

The volume addresses a number of closely connected methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues in the study of metonymy, and includes a series of case studies broadening our knowledge of the functioning of metonymy. As regards the methodological and descriptive issues, the book exhibits a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 60] 2018. ix, 325 pp.

Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages

Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Lars Borin, Kyoko Ohara and Tiago Timponi Torrent

In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions – a “dictionary of constructions”. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 22] 2018. viii, 313 pp. | open access

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Discourse Markers and (Dis)fluency: Forms and functions across languages and registers

Ludivine Crible

Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. so, well, you know, I mean) and other so-called “disfluent” phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension. The purpose… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 286] 2018. xvi, 252 pp.

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.

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.

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

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 80] 2018. vii, 418 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] 2018. xi, 285 pp.

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.

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.

Integrating dialogue

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.

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.

Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives

Helen Bromhead

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 9] 2018. xii, 227 pp.

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.

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.

Lexical meaning as a testable hypothesis: The case of English look, see, seem and appear

Nadav Sabar

This book offers an original treatment of the lexical form look. The work is innovative in that it establishes that the Columbia School conception of an invariant meaning – hitherto found primarily in grammar – is equally operative in core vocabulary items like look and see. The upshot is that… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 75] 2018. xv, 144 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Re/constructing Politics Through Social & Online Media: Discourses, ideologies, and mediated political practices

Edited by Michał Krzyżanowski and Joshua A. Tucker

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 17:2 (2018) vi, 202 pp.

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.

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.

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 197] 2018. viii, 366 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 77] 2018. xiii, 401 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 72] 2017. xxiv, 204 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar

Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma

As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach. This applies to the many different components of language as well, including semantics.If we want to fully… read more

[Not in series, 210] 2017. viii, 329 pp.

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.

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

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 8] 2017. xvii, 171 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 71] 2017. xiii, 293 pp.

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.

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.

Dialogue and Ethics

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.

Dimensions of Iconicity

Edited by Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 15] 2017. xiv, 351 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 73] 2017. xxii, 285 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 75] 2017. xxi, 177 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Expressing and Describing Surprise

Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.

Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages

Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno

The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017. vi, 334 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 70] 2017. viii, 471 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 69] 2017. xi, 457 pp.

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

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 30] 2017. vi, 435 pp.

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.

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.

Irony in Language Use and Communication

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications

Edited by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological perspective. The chapters present cutting-edge research covering central topics such as the status of semantic components in motion event… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 59] 2017. xiv, 460 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.

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.

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.

Public Debates on Immigration

Edited by Andreas Musolff

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:2 (2017) vi, 177 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 74] 2017. vi, 320 pp.

Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’

Edited by Ruth Wodak and Michał Krzyżanowski

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 16:4 (2017) vi, 169 pp.

Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism

Giacomo Turbanti

The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 280] 2017. xi, 245 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou

This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 56] 2017. x, 327 pp.

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

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 74] 2017. xiii, 257 pp.

Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State

Edited by Casper de Groot

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 119] 2017. xix, 555 pp.

The micro-politics of sequential organization: Contributions from conversation analysis and ethnomethodology

Edited by Lorenza Mondada and Sara Keel

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 16:1 (2017) v, 147 pp.

(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.

Advances in Research on Semantic Roles

Edited by Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga

Especially in functional-typological linguistics, semantic roles have been studied thoroughly, because they constitute a good starting point for any study on argument marking due to their semantically defined nature. However, the very concept of semantic roles is far from being without problems,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 88] 2016. v, 219 pp.

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.

Controversies, Communication and the Body

Edited by Joseph Lehmann

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

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.

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.

Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression

Edited by Boyd Davis

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage

Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer

Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins

Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.

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

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

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 20] 2016. viii, 220 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.

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

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 14] 2016. vi, 301 pp.

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.

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.

Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’

Edited by Lesley Stirling, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 26:2 (2016) v, 308 pp.

New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.

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.

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.

Pejoration

Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese

Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology,… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] 2016. vii, 357 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 67] 2016. xiii, 325 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 66] 2016. vii, 402 pp.

Writing in interaction

Edited by Lorenza Mondada

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 6:1 (2016) v, 204 pp.

The pragmatics of professional discourse

Edited by Winnie Cheng

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:1 (2016) vi, 168 pp.

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

“Happiness” and “Pain” across Languages and Cultures

Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye

In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 84] 2016. vi, 145 pp.

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.

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.

Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.

Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue

Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 5:1 (2015) v, 193 pp.

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

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 4] 2015. xvi, 223 pp.

Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres

Edited by Monika Kopytowska

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:1 (2015) vi, 229 pp.

Creating Social Orientation Through Language: A socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning

Andreas Langlotz

This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 17] 2015. xix, 366 pp.

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.

Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude: An intersubjectively-oriented empirical study

Magdalena Rybarczyk

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 51] 2015. xxii, 226 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 62] 2015. viii, 304 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 63] 2015. vi, 360 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 64] 2015. vii, 184 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 60] 2015. xix, 265 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 19] 2015. viii, 240 pp.

Iconicity: East meets West

Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita

Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness

Edited by Marina Terkourafi

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness brings together the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and second language experts in order to provide readers with a snapshot of the possibilities for studying im/politeness in the 21st century. The volume is organized along… read more

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 14] 2015. xi, 279 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 59] 2015. xviii, 155 pp.

Language & Citizenship

Edited by Tommaso M. Milani

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015) v, 160 pp.

The Linguistics of Temperature

Edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 107] 2015. xii, 934 pp.

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.

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Edited by J. Berenike Herrmann and Tony Berber Sardinha

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4] 2015. xii, 319 pp.

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

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 4] 2015. xii, 226 pp.

Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by María Jesús Pinar Sanz

The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 78] 2015. x, 212 pp.

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.

Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands

Edited by Farzana Gounder

Comprising of more than twenty five percent of the world’s known languages, the Pacific is considered to be the most linguistically diverse region in the world. What unifies the region is the culture of storytelling, which provides a fundamental means for perpetuating cultural knowledge across… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 21] 2015. xvi, 260 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns

Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.

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.

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

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.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 3

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language can be described as a mechanism for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms, or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a transition… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 168] 2015. xx, 546 pp.

The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes

Robert B. Dewell

The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in this area of German grammar. Using an extensive collection of naturally occurring data, the author proposes an image-schematic interpretation for each of the productive prefixes be-, ver-, er-, ent-, zer-, um-,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 49] 2015. xiii, 284 pp.

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

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 16] 2015. xiv, 220 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 65] 2015. vii, 251 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 61] 2015. xi, 217 pp.

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.

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

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.

Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue

Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.

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.

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.

Cognitive Modeling: A linguistic perspective

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa

This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 45] 2014. ix, 250 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy

Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.

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.

Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.

Diagrammatic Reasoning

Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology

Edited by Sebastian Feller and Ilker Yengin

Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology contains a collection of new articles on the relationship of learning, dialog and technology. The articles combine different views of dialogic learning stemming from a multiplicity of discipline backgrounds… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 24] 2014. xviii, 250 pp.

Evaluation in Context

Edited by Geoff Thompson † and Laura Alba-Juez

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little – if any – discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 242] 2014. xi, 418 pp.

The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations

Michele Gazzola

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 3] 2014. xxi, 380 pp.

Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs

Edited by Klaus Robering

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 152] 2014. viii, 373 pp.

Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2,… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp.

The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status

Edited by Hanna Pishwa and Rainer Schulze

In keeping with the profile of Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, this volume presents and discusses issues that are central to aspects of social inequality, power, dominance and status as expressed in discourse in its broadest sense. The volume aggregates research efforts of the past years, and it… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 248] 2014. vi, 267 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 55] 2014. xi, 333 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 58] 2014. xv, 253 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 53] 2014. ix, 338 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2014 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 18] 2014. viii, 270 pp.

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.

Language Aggression Against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

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

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.

Let's talk politics: New essays on deliberative rhetoric

Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 6] 2014. viii, 208 pp.

Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context

Edited by Fabienne H. Baider and Georgeta Cislaru

This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core role emotions play in languages' structure, use and learning. Seldom… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241] 2014. vi, 358 pp.

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.

New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents

Edited by Daniela Rossi and Nicolas Ruytenbeek

For some years now, meanings that are communicated implicitly have been the target of intense theoretical debate and considerable empirical examination. However, it is mainly during the last decade that scholars started covering a range of topics from a variety of perspectives, weaving together… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 28] 2014. v, 118 pp.

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.

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.

Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht

Edited by Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244] 2014. xv, 244 pp.

Perspectives on Semantic Roles

Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Heiko Narrog

Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological expression, and with their interaction with argument structure and syntax. The focus in this volume is on typological and historical issues.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 106] 2014. vi, 336 pp.

Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More than Meats the Eye”

Sylvia Jaki

The major purpose of newspaper headlines is to trigger the reader’s interest. A popular way to achieve this goal is the use of phraseological modifications. Based on previous findings from various linguistic disciplines, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 46] 2014. xvi, 243 pp.

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.

Popular News Discourse: American and British newspapers 1833-1988

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:2 (2014) v, 172 pp.

Pragmatic Competence and Relevance

Elly Ifantidou

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.

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.

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News: From canonical headlines to online news texts

Jan Chovanec

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 253] 2014. xvi, 294 pp.

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.

Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon

Patrick J. Duffley

This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 251] 2014. x, 246 pp.

Requesting in Social Interaction

Edited by Paul Drew and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction – particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 26] 2014. x, 371 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 56] 2014. vii, 224 pp.

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

(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

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 50] 2013. xi, 426 pp.

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.

Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics

Special issue of Pragmatics 23:3 (2013) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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.

The Art of Sympathy in Fiction: Forms of ethical and emotional persuasion

Howard Sklar

By taking an interdisciplinary approach — with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature — The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields. Its focus is the sympathetic effects of stories, and the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 15] 2013. xiv, 192 pp.

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.

Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis

Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling

A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.

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

Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory

Edited by Marta Dynel

This volume presents recent developments in the linguistics of humour. It depicts new theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope. The 15 contributions critically survey and develop the existing interpretative… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 1] 2013. xiv, 425 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 52] 2013. vii, 498 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 51] 2013. xvi, 178 pp.

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.

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

[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 2] 2013. xxi, 440 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 17] 2013. xiii, 268 pp.

Iconic Investigations

Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The contributions to Iconic Investigations deal with linguistic or literary aspects of language. While some studies analyze the cognitive structures of language, others pay close attention to the sounds of spoken language and the visual characteristics of written language. In addition this volume… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 12] 2013. x, 357 pp.

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.

Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, disagreements and agreements

Brook Bolander

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 237] 2013. xvi, 275 pp.

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

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.

Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by André Włodarczyk and Hélène Włodarczyk

The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 143] 2013. xvii, 306 pp.

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.

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

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 1] 2013. vii, 211 pp.

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.

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.

Prosody and Iconicity

Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Daniel Hirst

The contributions to this volume focus on the interrelation between prosody and iconicity and shed new light on the topic by enlarging the number of parameters traditionally considered, and by confronting various theoretical backgrounds. The parameters taken into account include socio-linguistic… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 13] 2013. xv, 252 pp.

Proximization: The pragmatics of symbolic distance crossing

Piotr Cap

This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of broadly consequential political/public policies, such… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 232] 2013. ix, 220 pp.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 2

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative approach to linguistic semantics, starting from the idea that language is a mechanism for the expression of linguistic meanings as particular surface forms (texts). Semantics is that system of rules that ensures a transition from a Semantic Representation of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 135] 2013. xvi, 400 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 48] 2013. ix, 202 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 49] 2013. vii, 191 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 25] 2013. vi, 378 pp.

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.

Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611

Graham T. Williams

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.

(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.

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.

Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English

Elisabeth Reber

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 215] 2012. ix, 281 pp.

The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life

Edited by Ruth Ayaß and Cornelia Gerhardt

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself, but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 224] 2012. vii, 308 pp.

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.

Causality and Connectives: From Grice to relevance

Valandis Bardzokas

The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 216] 2012. xii, 206 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Endangered Metaphors

Edited by Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen

When the last speaker of a language dies, s/he takes to oblivion the memories, associations and the rich imagery this language community has once lived by. The cultural heritage encoded in conventional linguistic metaphors, handed down through generations, will be lost forever. This volume consists… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 2] 2012. vi, 376 pp.

The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing

Johan Brandtler

Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.

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.

Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Bhuvana Narasimhan

Events of putting things in places, and removing them from places, are fundamental activities of human experience. But do speakers of different languages construe such events in the same way when describing them? This volume investigates placement and removal event descriptions from 18 areally,… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 100] 2012. xv, 371 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2012 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 16] 2012. 248 pp.

Interlanguage Request Modification

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Helen Woodfield

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical studies carried out by an international array of scholars which provides insights for researchers, graduate students and language teachers on patterns of interlanguage… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] 2012. ix, 318 pp.

Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics

Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.

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.

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.

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.

On the Compositional Nature of States

E. Matthew Husband

This monograph pursues a structural analogy between the availability of an existential interpretation in states and the telicity of events. Focusing on evidence from both verbal and adjectival predicates, it argues that quantization forms the basis of a unified theory of aktionsart and provides a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 188] 2012. xv, 170 pp.

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.

Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues

Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale Koike

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: (1) examine… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 31] 2012. x, 338 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 15] 2012. xxx, 296 pp.

Semantics: From meaning to text. Volume 1

Igor Mel’čuk

This book presents an innovative and novel approach to linguistic semantics, beginning with the idea that language can be described as a system for the expression of linguistic Meanings as particular surface forms or Texts. Semantics is specifically that system of rules that ensures a correct… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 129] 2012. xxi, 436 pp.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 47] 2012. xiii, 314 pp.

Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures

Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár

Exploring a largely uncharted territory of cultural history and linguistic ethnography, Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness offers in-depth analyses and perceptive interpretations of the conveyance of social-relational meaning in times (long) past and across historical cultures.A collection of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 41] 2012. vi, 283 pp.

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

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.

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.

Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.

Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language

Gill Philip

Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.

Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue

Roger D. Sell

Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp.

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.

Contrastive Pragmatics

Edited by Karin Aijmer

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 30] 2011. v, 182 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 43] 2011. vii, 231 pp.

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

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 1] 2011. xvii, 238 pp.

Cyberpragmatics: Internet-mediated communication in context

Francisco Yus

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the Net: the web page, chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking sites, 3D virtual worlds, blogs, videoconference,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 213] 2011. xiv, 353 pp. | open access

Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view

Edited by Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

While cognitive linguists are essentially in agreement on both the conceptual nature and the fundamental importance of metonymy, there remain disagreements on a number of specific but, nevertheless, crucial issues. Research questions include: Is metonymy a relationship between “entities” or… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 28] 2011. viii, 284 pp.

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.

Distributed Language

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially ‘symbolic’, not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.

Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Geneviève Calbris

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows… read more

[Gesture Studies, 5] 2011. xx, 378 pp.

Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures

Edited by Zouhair Maalej and Ning Yu

Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions,… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp.

Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics

Edited by Jörg Meibauer and Markus Steinbach

In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is implicated’. From a linguist’s point of view, however, there has always been a… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175] 2011. x, 240 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 15] 2011. vi, 303 pp.

Historical Sociopragmatics

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 31] 2011. vii, 135 pp.

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.

Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture

Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers… read more

[Gesture Studies, 4] 2011. viii, 372 pp. | open access

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 40] 2011. xiv, 248 pp.

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren

Edited by Eveline T. Feteris, Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics is written to honor Frans van Eemeren and his work in the field of argumentation theory on the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains 17 contributions from teams of authors consisting of a combination of a pragma-dialectician and one or two… read more

[Not in series, 163] 2011. vi, 283 pp.

Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning

Lucien Brown

This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 206] 2011. xiv, 311 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] 2011. vi, 307 pp.

Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Vincent X. Wang

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp.

Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics

Edited by Marina Sbisà, 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 cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.

Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts

Baudouin Dupret

The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a “member phenomenon”. To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 214] 2011. xiv, 173 pp.

Pragmatics in Practice

Edited by 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, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 9] 2011. xi, 326 pp.

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.

The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students

Elizabeth Flores-Salgado

The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 41] 2011. xi, 218 pp.

Reciprocals and Semantic Typology

Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid

Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.

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.

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

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.

Semblance and Signification

Edited by Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The articles assembled in Semblance and Signification explore linguistic and literary structures from a range of theoretical perspectives with a view to understanding the extent, prevalence, productivity, and limitations of iconically grounded forms of semiosis. With the complementary examination… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] 2011. xii, 427 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 46] 2011. x, 290 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 42] 2011. ix, 248 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 62] 2010. xi, 191 pp.

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.

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.

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

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.

Editorials and the Power of Media: Interweaving of socio-cultural identities

Élisabeth Le

Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 35] 2010. xiv, 239 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 38] 2010. vi, 378 pp.

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2010 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 14] 2010. 520 pp.

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

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.

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.

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

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 29] 2010. xi, 209 pp.

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.

Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives

Edited by Petra Storjohann

This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised… read more

[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 28] 2010. viii, 188 pp.

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

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 14] 2010. xi, 238 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 36] 2010. ix, 416 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 37] 2010. xi, 264 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 39] 2010. xi, 268 pp.

Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.

Society and Language Use

Edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of the 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, cultural,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 6] 2010. x, 275 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 34] 2009. xiv, 222 pp.

Cognition and Pragmatics

Edited by Dominiek Sandra, 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, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 3] 2009. xvii, 399 pp.

Contexts and Constructions

Edited by Alexander Bergs and Gabriele Diewald

This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic “context(s)” in relation to the notion of “constructions” and in construction grammar. It thus takes up and brings together two equally complex concepts of linguistics, which both… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 9] 2009. v, 247 pp.

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.

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

Edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov

In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 33] 2009. xiii, 170 pp.

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.

From Body to Meaning in Culture: Papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese

Ning Yu

From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the… read more

[Not in series, 149] 2009. xvi, 310 pp.

From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution of signs and communication

Piotr Sadowski

Against the background of jargon-ridden and often obscure semiotic literature Sadowski’s book offers a reader-friendly yet rigorous account of human communication and its evolution from animal and primate behaviour. What is specifically human about the way we exchange information with other people,… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 8] 2009. xxi, 300 pp.

Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre

Edited by Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein

This volume brings together for the first time pragmatic, rhetorical, and literary perspectives on genre, mapping theoretical frontiers and initiating a long overdue conversation amongst these methodologies. The diverse approaches represented in this volume meet on common ground staked by Internet… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 188] 2009. ix, 294 pp.

Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics

Edited by Frank Brisard, 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, cultural, social, variational, interactional,… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 5] 2009. xiii, 308 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 13] 2009. vi, 421 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Key Notions for Pragmatics

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 1] 2009. xiii, 253 pp.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Named Entities: Recognition, classification and use

Edited by Satoshi Sekine and Elisabete Ranchhod

Named Entities provides critical information for many NLP applications. Named Entity recognition and classification (NERC) in text is recognized as one of the important sub-tasks of Information Extraction (IE). The seven papers in this volume cover various interesting and informative aspects of… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 19] 2009. v, 168 pp.

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.

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.

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.

The Pragmatics of Interaction

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] 2009. xiii, 262 pp.

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.

Television Dialogue: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation

Paulo Quaglio

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 36] 2009. xiii, 165 pp

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.

Toddler and Parent Interaction: The organisation of gaze, pointing and vocalisation

Anna Filipi

This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13 months and ending when they were 18 months old. It tracks development as an issue for and of interaction. In so doing, it uncovers the details of the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 192] 2009. xiii, 268 pp.

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.

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

(Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts

Edited by Diana Bravo

Special issue of Pragmatics 18:4 (2008) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 28] 2008. xi, 204 pp.

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach

Edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron and Marilda C. Cavalcanti

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 173] 2008. vii, 315 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cross-Linguistic Semantics

Edited by Cliff Goddard

Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008. xvi, 356 pp.

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.

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.

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages

Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker

Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 104] 2008. x, 239 pp.

Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A tribute to Daniel Gile

Edited by Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman and Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast

This volume covers a wide range of topics in Interpreting and Translation Research. Some deal with scientometrics and the history of Interpreting Studies, arguments about conceptual analysis, meta-language and interpreters’ risk-taking strategies. Other papers are on research skills like career… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 80] 2008. ix, 302 pp.

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.

From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations

Edited by Martine Vanhove

This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 106] 2008. xiii, 404 pp.

Grammar and Interaction: Pivots in German conversation

Emma Betz

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of the structure and communicative use of syntactic pivot constructions in German. Using the methodology of Conversation Analysis, this work shows that pivots emerge in interaction in response to local communicative needs.Exclusively found in… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 21] 2008. xiii, 208 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2008 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 12] 2008. vii, 200 pp.

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.

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.

Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language

Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.

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.

Metaphor and Gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas… read more

[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.

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.

Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions

Edited by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.

Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more

[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.

The Perfect Time Span: On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English

Björn Rothstein

This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 125] 2008. xi, 171 pp.

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.

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.

The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit

Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

Robert Brandom’s Making it Explicit (1994) marks a Copernican turn in the philosophy of mind and language, as this collection of critical essays together with Brandom’s enlightening answers convincingly shows. Though faithful to Wittgenstein’s pragmatic turn in spirit, Brandom gives a… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 15] 2008. viii, 237 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 27] 2008. xiii, 238 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 31] 2008. viii, 330 pp.

The Semantics of Generics in Dutch and Related Languages

Albert Oosterhof

This monograph is a comprehensive study of the various ways in which genericity can be expressed in Dutch, dialects of Dutch, and languages related to Dutch. On the basis of empirical (corpus- and questionnaire-based) data, a wide range of topics are discussed which have been addressed in the… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 122] 2008. xviii, 286 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 32] 2008. ix, 149 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect

Edited by Susan Rothstein

The papers in this volume investigate the semantics of aspect from both a theoretical and a crosslinguistic point of view, in a wide range of languages from a number of different language families. The papers are all informed by the belief that a thorough exposure to the expression of aspect… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] 2008. viii, 453 pp.

Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages

Edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron

This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 178] 2008. vii, 371 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 29] 2008. x, 246 pp.

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

Silence in Intercultural Communication
:
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 21] 2007. xii, 145 pp.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 26] 2007. viii, 200 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 24] 2007. ix, 248 pp.

Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage: A methodological analysis of theory and research

Gerard J. Steen

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 10] 2007. xvi, 430 pp.

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.

The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel

Edited by Nancy Hedberg and Ron Zacharski

This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 155] 2007. viii, 345 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 11] 2007. vi, 315 pp. (incl. binder)

The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A corpus-assisted analysis

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 157] 2007. xvi, 236 pp.

The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective

Edited by Mengistu Amberber

This book offers, for the first time, a detailed comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. While there is a robust body of psycholinguistic research that bears on how memory and language are related, there is no comparative study of how speakers themselves… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 21] 2007. xii, 284 pp.

The Language of Pain: Expression or description?

Chryssoula Lascaratou

How is the universal, yet private and subjective, experience of pain talked about by different people in everyday encounters? What does the analysis of pain-related lexico-phraseological choices, grammatical structures, and linguistic metaphors reveal as to how pain is perceived and experienced?… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 9] 2007. xii, 238 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent

Sol Azuelos-Atias

A Pragmatic Analysis of Legal Proofs of Criminal Intent is a detailed investigation of proofs of criminal intent in Israeli courtrooms. The book analyses linguistic, pragmatic, interpretative and argumentative strategies used by Israeli lawyers and judges in order to examine the defendant’s… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 25] 2007. x, 180 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Talking about Motion: A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns

Luna Filipović

This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 91] 2007. x, 182 pp.

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.

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

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

(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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 9] 2004. xxiii, 260 pp.

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

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context

Anne Barron

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 108] 2003. xviii, 403 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 6] 2003. xii, 178 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 5] 2003. x, 315 pp.

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.

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.

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

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.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 8] 2003. viii, 402 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 7] 2003. vi, 299 pp.

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.

Interpretation and Understanding

Marcelo Dascal †

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never… read more

[Not in series, 120] 2003. xxii, 714 pp.

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.

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.

Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1

Edited by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner

These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] 2003. xii, 388 pp.

Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing

Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 113] 2003. xi, 280 pp.

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.

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

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 8] 2003. vi, 277 pp.

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

Ideologies of politeness

Edited by Manfred Kienpointner

Special issue of Pragmatics 9:1 (1999) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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

Conflict and violence in pragmatic research

Edited by Charles L. Briggs

Special issue of Pragmatics 7:4 (1997) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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

Constructing languages and publics

Edited by Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard

Special issue of Pragmatics 5:2 (1995) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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.

Critical perspectives on intercultural communication

Edited by Michael Meeuwis

Special issue of Pragmatics 4:3 (1994) ca. 125 pp. | open access

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

The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi

This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers, originally presented at the International Pragmatics Conference held in Viareggio, Italy, 1–5 September 1985. read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 5] 1987. xiii, 836 pp.