SubjectsCommunication Studies
Book series
Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research
Edited by Nanon Labrie and Ninke Stukker
ISSN 1566-7774
Document Design Companion Series
Edited by Jan Renkema, Maria Laura Pardo and Ruth Wodak
ISSN 1568-1963
Topics in Address Research
Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat
ISSN 2405-9269
Journals
ISSN 2949-6861 | E‑ISSN 2949‑6845
Document Design
Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Organizational Communication
General Editor: Jan Renkema
ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Journal of Argumentation in Context
Edited by Nanon Labrie and Menno H. Reijven
ISSN 2211-4742 | E‑ISSN 2211‑4750
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Henning Klöter and Ke Zhang
ISSN 0957-6851 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9838
Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou
ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280
Journal of Language and Pop Culture
Edited by Valentin Werner, Paul Flanagan and Mie Hiramoto
ISSN 2950-578X | E‑ISSN 2950‑5798
ISSN 2214-9953 | E‑ISSN 2214‑9961
ISSN 2452-0063 | E‑ISSN 2452‑0071
The Journal of Internationalization and Localization
Edited by Minako O'Hagan and Julie McDonough Dolmaya
ISSN 2032-6904 | E‑ISSN 2032‑6912
Translation Spaces
A multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual journal of translation
Edited by Joke Daems, Dorothy Kenny and Joss Moorkens
ISSN 2211-3711 | E‑ISSN 2211‑372X
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Political science | Pragmatics
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, 313 pp. + index
Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation
Edited by Sabina Amanbayeva, Olga Blackledge and Elena Goodwin
The edited volume Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation provides an innovative perspective on animation from the region as a transcultural phenomenon that was influenced by a complex interplay of international and internal processes. Covering the 1930s to the 2010s, it… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 19] 2026. xiii, 292 pp. + index
Translating at Work: Paraprofessional translation in organizations
Edited by Kaisa Koskinen
In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations, knowledge, ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen, employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages, organizational and… read moreOther subjects Industrial & organizational studies | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to Semiotic Landscape research
Edited by Máiréad Moriarty and Maida Kosatica
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 11:2 (2025) v, 100 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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Cultural Turns in Information Design I
Edited by Juhri Selamet and Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward
Special issue of Information Design Journal 30:1 (2025) 96 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
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.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Political science | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Future Perspectives in Medical Argumentation
Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:3 (2025) v, 110 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
In Search of Round Trips: Travelling concepts in translation studies and beyond
Edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger
Special issue of Translation in Society 4:1 (2025) v, 126 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Interaction Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
10th Anniversary Issue: Engaging with LL futures
Edited by Robert Blackwood and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 10:4 (2024) v, 110 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Literary translatorship in digital contexts
Edited by Wenqian Zhang, Motoko Akashi and Peter Jonathan Freeth
Special issue of Translation in Society 3:1 (2024) v, 132 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Multimodal Argumentation: Special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024)
Edited by Hartmut Stöckl and Assimakis Tseronis
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:2 (2024) v, 151 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Political science | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
Perspectives on Pantomime
Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
Pantomime is a unique form of communication, which we improvise “on the fly” to transmit information when unable to use language, for example during intercultural contacts or when the use of language is blocked or constrained, as in the case of some medical conditions or the game of charades.… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. v, 244 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Political science | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction
Edited by Minna Ruokonen, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino
Special issue of Translation Spaces 13:1 (2024) v, 169 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy
(Inter)Cultural Dialogues
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
Argumentation and the interpretation of religious texts
Edited by Fabrizio Macagno and Lucia Salvato
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 12:1 (2023) v, 134 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse
Edited by Ke Zhang and Chao Lu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 (2023) vi, 152 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Indirect Translation and Sustainable Development
Edited by Jan Buts, Hanna Pięta, Laura Ivaska and James Hadley
Special issue of Translation Spaces 12:2 (2023) v, 181 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa
Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
The Political Economy of Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Johan Järlehed, Tommaso M. Milani and Tove Rosendal
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 9:3 (2023) v, 109 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement
Edited by Kikuko Omori and Hiroshi Ota
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 (2023) v, 110 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Role of ISO/TC 37 Standards for Translators, Interpreters, Terminologists and Beyond
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert
Special issue of Digital Translation 10:2 (2023) v, 120 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Terminology: Cognition, language and communication
Teresa Cabré
This volume brings together a selection of M. Teresa Cabré’s articles on terminology published after 1999 in journals of diverse nature and scope, many of which are difficult to access; articles in languages other than English are here provided in English translation. As a whole, these articles aim… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 36] 2023. ix, 371 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Terminology
Text and Wine: Approaches from terminology and translation
Edited by M. del Carmen Balbuena Torezano and Manuela Álvarez Jurado
Text and Wine: Approaches from terminology and translation collects part of the results of the research project WeinApp: Multilingual System of Information and Winegrowing-Resources (MINECO, Ref. FFI2016-79785-R), carried out by researchers from the universities of Cordoba and Cadiz (Spain), on… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 38] 2023. vi, 261 pp.
Other subjects Terminology | Translation Studies
Translation and the Formation of Collectivities: Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023)
Edited by Dilek Dizdar and Tomasz Rozmysłowicz
Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023) v, 122 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
(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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in European Politics
Edited by Corina Andone and Bart Garssen
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 11:1 (2022) v, 155 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
COVID-19 and Current Changes in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert
Special issue of The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 9:2 (2022) v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen
The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics,… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 9] 2022. vii, 359 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics
Formality and Informality in Online Performances
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022) v, 195 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts
Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles, Marian Dörk and Yanni Loukissas
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:2 (2022) v, 95 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19
Edited by Jackie Jia Lou, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 8:2/3 (2022) vi, 176 pp.
Methodological Issues in Experimental Research in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility
Edited by Gian Maria Greco, Anna Jankowska and Agnieszka Szarkowska
Special issue of Translation Spaces 11:1 (2022) v, 156 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Special inaugural issue: Translating the Extreme
Special issue of Translation in Society 1:1 (2022) v, 129 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
When Dialogue Fails
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 12:1 (2022) v, 168 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
Young researchers in action
Edited by Angeliki Tzanne
Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:1 (2022) vi, 239 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentative Style
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:1 (2021) v, 143 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for students who use English as an Additional Language (EAL). By emphasizing writing as a thinking process, the textbook develops the skills writers need to work effectively with AI tools. The Art of Writing teaches students how to synthesize… read more[Not in series, 231] 2021. x, 299 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Writing and literacy
The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
Diaspora and Asian Spaces in a Transnational World
Edited by Thom Huebner
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 7:2 (2021) v, 141 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourses of Fake News
Edited by Scott Wright
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 (2021) vi, 183 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe
Edited by Zi Wang and Florian Coulmas
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:2 (2021) v, 175 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Localization in Healthcare and Medical Settings in the Advent of COVID-19
Edited by Minako O'Hagan and Julie McDonough Dolmaya
Special issue of The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 8:2 (2021) v, 90 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
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
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
New perspectives on conflict
Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 9:2 (2021) v, 147 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet
Edited by Francisco Yus
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:1 (2021) v, 175 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees
Edited by Yin Lam Lee-Johnson and Hsiao-Chin Kuo
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power
Edited by Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés and Esther Monzó-Nebot
The relevance of translation has never been greater. The challenges of the 21st century are truly glocal and societies are required to manage diversities like never before. Cultural and linguistic diversities cut across ideological systems, those carefully crafted to uphold prevailing hierarchies… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 157] 2021. xiii, 391 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology
Edited by Paola Gentile, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt
Special issue of Translation Spaces 10:1 (2021) vi, 180 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
Understanding Chinese Social Media
Edited by Sumin Zhao and Chaoqun Xie
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021) v, 146 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions
Edited by Steve Oswald, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:1 (2020) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 (2020) vi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Dialogue and Ways of Relating
Edited by Huey-Rong Chen
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 10:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Interaction Studies | Pragmatics
Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable Machine Translation
Edited by Joss Moorkens, Dorothy Kenny and Félix do Carmo
Special issue of Translation Spaces 9:1 (2020) v, 176 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of… read moreOther subjects Applied linguistics | Narrative Studies
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings: Perspectives on research and training
Edited by Eva N.S. Ng and Ineke H.M. Crezee
The importance of quality interpreting in legal and healthcare settings can never be stressed enough, when any mistake – no matter how small – can compromise the delivery of justice or put someone’s health at risk. This book addresses issues arising from interpreting in legal and healthcare… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 151] 2020. vii, 351 pp.
Other subjects Forensic & legal linguistics | Interpreting | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language policy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Localization around the globe
Edited by Minako O'Hagan and Julie McDonough Dolmaya
Special issue of The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 7:1/2 (2020) v, 137 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Playing with Mental Models: Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office
Henri de Jongste
In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating… read more[Topics in Humor Research, 9] 2020. xv, 301 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Humor studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Pragmatics of Internet Memes
Edited by Chaoqun Xie
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence: Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts
Emanuele Brambilla
What are the implications of strategic manoeuvring for the activity of the simultaneous interpreter? This is the main question addressed in The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence. Based on the analysis of a multilingual comparable corpus named ARGO, the book investigates political argumentation… read more[Argumentation in Context, 18] 2020. xv, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Interpreting | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Corpus-Based Research in Legal and Institutional Translation
Edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos
Special issue of Translation Spaces 8:1 (2019) v, 191 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
Creativity in Language
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Dialogue in institutional settings
Edited by Franca Orletti and Letizia Caronia
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 9:1 (2019) v, 190 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
Environmental Argumentation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1 (2019) v, 171 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Information Visualization
Edited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence
Edited by Lucile Davier and Kyle Conway
How has convergence affected news and translation? Convergence is a chameleon, taking a new colour in each new context, from the integrated, bilingual newsroom of a legacy broadcaster to a newsroom in an outlet that has embraced multimodality from the very start. And yet, translation scholars… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 146] 2019. vi, 211 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends
Edited by Irene Ranzato and Serenella Zanotti
Despite a long tradition of scholarship and the vast amount of dubbed audiovisual products available on the global market, dubbing is still relatively underrepresented in audiovisual research. The aim of this volume is to give dubbing research its due by showing that, far from being a doomed or… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 148] 2019. vi, 287 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019) v, 147 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
X-Scapes: New horizons in Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Crispin Thurlow and Kellie Gonçalves
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 5:2 (2019) v, 106 pp.
(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions
Edited by Chaoqun Xie
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 1:2 (2018) v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation and Patient Centered Care
Edited by Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Roosmaryn Pilgram and Nanon Labrie
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 7:2 (2018) vi, 132 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Empirical Studies of Literariness
Edited by Massimo Salgaro and Paul Sopčák
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 8:1 (2018) v, 208 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Interaction Studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Gender, Sexuality & Linguistic Landscapes
Edited by Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 4:3 (2018) v, 119 pp.
Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation
Edited by Elena Di Giovanni and Yves Gambier
The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience, their comprehension, appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform, studies on the reception of translated… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 141] 2018. xii, 353 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts
Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Giovanni Scarafile
The relationship between science and democracy has become a much-debated issue. In recent years, we have even seen an exponential growth in literature on the subject. No doubt, the interest has partly been justified by the concern of public opinion over the technological repercussions of scientific… read more[Controversies, 13] 2018. viii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Philosophy
Strategic Communication: Beyond nation cultural adaption, images and identity
Edited by Hassan Abu Bakar and Bahtiar Bin Mohamad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 (2018) v, 194 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
Translation and Interpreting in Non-Governmental Organisations
Edited by Wine Tesseur
Special issue of Translation Spaces 7:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
Where is Adaptation? Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts explores the vast terrain of contemporary adaptation studies and offers a wide variety of answers to the title question in 24 chapters by 29 international practitioners and scholars of adaptation, both eminent and emerging. From insightful… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 9] 2018. xix, 431 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective
Edited by Peng Wu and Xu Cihua
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:3 (2017) vi, 126 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Context-dependency of Argumentative Patterns
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:1 (2017) v, 104 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Dialogue and Ethics
Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 7:1 (2017) v, 133 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
Emotions across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1 (2017) v, 119 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Game Localisation
Edited by Xiaochun Zhang and Samuel Strong
Special issue of The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 4:2 (2017) v, 132 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Health Information Design
Edited by Guillermina Noël
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:3 (2017) ii, 134 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles and Katherine Gillieson
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Humor studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
Methodology in Linguistic Landscape Research
Edited by Robert Blackwood
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 3:3 (2017) v, 113 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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Writing and literacy
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Public Debates on Immigration
Edited by Andreas Musolff
Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:2 (2017) vi, 177 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea
Edited by Eung-jun Min
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:2 (2017) v, 111 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design
Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:2 (2017) ii, 121 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation
Edited by Cecilia Alvstad, Annjo K. Greenall, Hanne Jansen and Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov
The notion of voice has been used in a number of ways within Translation Studies. Against the backdrop of these different uses, this book looks at the voices of translators, authors, publishers, editors and readers both in the translations themselves and in the texts that surround these… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 137] 2017. vi, 268 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes
Edited by Hanna Risku, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic
Special issue of Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017) v, 180 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in Journalism: Professional practices and the public sphere
Edited by Corina Andone and Andrea Rocci
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 5:1 (2016) v, 111 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity
Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016) vi, 182 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Cognitive space: Exploring the situational interface
Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow and Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
Special issue of Translation Spaces 5:1 (2016) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology
Edited by Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn and Joep Leerssen
Isn’t translation all about saying exactly the same thing in another language? Aren’t national images totally outdated in this era of globalization? Most people might agree but this book amply illustrates how persistent and multifaceted clichés on translation and nation can be. Time and again,… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 119] 2016. vii, 333 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics
Edited by Sarah J. Paulson and Anders Skare Malvik
How does contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part? And how do we study literature in order to shed light on these responses? Under the subsections Technology, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture sets out to answer… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 2] 2016. xiii, 265 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Localization and Interculturality
Edited by Maria-Cornelia Wermuth and Priscilla Heynderickx
Special issue of The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 3:2 (2016) v, 100 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Translation Studies
Master Narratives, Identities, and the Stories of Former Slaves
Jonathan Clifton and Dorien Van De Mieroop
This book is intended for researchers in the field of narrative from post-graduate level onwards. It analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publically available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More… read more[Studies in Narrative, 22] 2016. viii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Memory and memorialization
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Elana Shohamy
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 2:3 (2016) v, 104 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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016) v, 173 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Traffic & Transport: Part II
Edited by Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 22:2 (2016) ii, 122 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Empathy
Edited by Paul Sopčák, Massimo Salgaro and J. Berenike Herrmann
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 6:1 (2016) v, 174 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Writing in interaction
Edited by Lorenza Mondada
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 6:1 (2016) v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Anthropology | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psychology | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 5:1 (2015) v, 193 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015) v, 164 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Gaze in Human-Robot Communication
Edited by Frank Broz, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano
Gaze in Human-Robot Communication is a volume collecting recent research studying gaze behaviour in human-robot interaction (HRI). The selected articles draw inspiration from related research into gaze in human-human interaction in fields ranging from ethnography to neuroscience. The major themes… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 81] 2015. xv, 162 pp.
Other subjects Artificial Intelligence | Interaction Studies
Interpersonal Argumentation
Edited by Harry Weger, Jr
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:1 (2015) v, 133 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics
Edited by Bert Peeters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015) vii, 161 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Media and communication as antecedents to the transformation agenda in Malaysia: Challenges and realities
Edited by Ali Salman
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 (2015) vi, 157 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Tradition, Tension and Translation in Turkey
Edited by Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Saliha Paker and John Milton
The articles in this volume examine historical, cultural, literary and political facets of translation in Turkey, a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 118] 2015. xiii, 311 pp.
Other subjects Language policy | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
This volume aims at contributing to an interpretive approach to writing and its dynamics. It offers a general scope on the process-product interface by multiplying the points of view on both the process and the product and their links. The book presents new findings and perspectives in the study of… read moreOther subjects Applied linguistics | Writing and literacy
"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Pragmatics
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World
Edited by Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014) vi, 184 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in the Media
Edited by Darrin Hicks
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 3:1 (2014) v, 101 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated
Edited by Anna Maszerowska, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero
Audio description (AD) is a narrative technique which provides complementary information regarding the where, who, what and how of any audiovisual content. It translates the visuals into words. The principal function of this ad hoc narrative is to make audiovisual content available to all: be it a… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 112] 2014. viii, 216 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue
Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014) v, 162 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
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 moreOther subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Pragmatics
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.
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity
Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa
Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Industrial & organizational studies | Interaction Studies | Pragmatics
Language Aggression Against Women
Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch
Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2:2 (2014) v, 120 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking
Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile
Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Industrial & organizational studies | Interaction Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Aesthetic Engagement During Moments of Suffering
Edited by Don Kuiken and Mary Beth Oliver
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 3:2 (2013) v, 153 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication
Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp
Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.
Other subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognitive psychology | Philosophy | Psycholinguistics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Animation in Asia
Edited by John A. Lent
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:1 (2013) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Argumentation in political deliberation
Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 2:1 (2013) v, 177 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Philosophy
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 moreOther subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Literary Linguistics
Edited by Anja Müller-Wood
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 3:1 (2013) v, 163 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Trends in Media and Communication Research in Malaysia
Edited by Fauziah Ahmad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:2 (2013) vi, 134 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
(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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Argumentation and Health
Edited by Sara Rubinelli and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
Special issue of Journal of Argumentation in Context 1:1 (2012) vi, 142 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories
Mariko Karatsu
This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Dialogue and Representation
Edited by Alain Létourneau and François Cooren
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 2:1 (2012) vi, 189 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication
Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod
In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Semiotics
Exploring Argumentative Contexts
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the… read more[Argumentation in Context, 4] 2012. xx, 398 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality (2000–2011)
Heiko Motschenbacher
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is,… read more[Not in series, 177] 2012. vii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Language Management Approach: Probing the Concept of "Noting"
Edited by Helen Marriott and Jiří Nekvapil
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 22:2 (2012) vi, 163 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Cultural China in Discursive Transformation
Edited by Shi-xu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:2 (2011) 160 pp.
Other subjects Altaic languages | Sino-Tibetan languages
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 moreOther subjects Pragmatics
The Future of Scientific Studies in Literature
Special issue of Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 (2011) iv, 193 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication
Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen
News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Semiotics
Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia
Edited by Francesca Bargiela and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1 (2011) vi, 158 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge
Louise Phillips
It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields. Here, “dialogue” has become a buzzword that promises democratic, participatory processes of mutual learning and knowledge co-production. But what does “dialogue” actually entail… read more[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data
Christopher Jenks
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Pragmatics
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 moreOther subjects Cognitive psychology | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
Healthcare Information
Edited by Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 18:3 (2010) ii, 105 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Medical Communication in the Asia Context
Edited by M. Agnes Kang and Olga Zayts-Spence
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:2 (2010) vi, 166 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Agents of Translation
Edited by John Milton and Paul Bandia
Agents of Translation contains thirteen case studies by internationally recognized scholars in which translation has been used as a way of influencing the target culture and furthering literary, political and personal interests. The articles describe Francisco Miranda, the “precursor” of Venezuelan… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 81] 2009. vi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Biliterate Asian Students' Literacy Practices in North America
Edited by Youngjoo Yi and Alan Hirvela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:1 (2009) 180 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren
Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if… read more[Argumentation in Context, 1] 2009. x, 305 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Philosophy
Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning
Jürgen Streeck
The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us,… read more[Gesture Studies, 2] 2009. xii, 235 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
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 moreOther subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Media Discourse in Greater China
Edited by Sai-hua Kuo and Doreen D. Wu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 (2009) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Traffic & Transport: Part I
Special issue of Information Design Journal 17:2 (2009) ii, 79 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Voices of the Invisible Presence: Diplomatic interpreters in post-World War II Japan
Kumiko Torikai
Voices of the Invisible Presence: Diplomatic interpreters in post-World War II Japan examines the role and the making of interpreters, in the social, political and economic context of postwar Japan, using oral history as a method. The primary questions addressed are what kind of people became… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 83] 2009. x, 197 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction
Edited by Sophie Arkoudis and Chris Davison
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:1 (2008) 140 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Dimensions of gesture
Edited by Adam Kendon † and Tommaso Russo Cardona
Special issue of Gesture 8:1 (2008) 153 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Gestures in language development
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot
Special issue of Gesture 8:2 (2008) 145 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
Highlights of Vision Plus 12: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results
Edited by Lennart Strand and Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 16:3 (2008) 112 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Textual Translation and Live Translation: The total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema
Fernando Poyatos
After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of… read more[Not in series, 142] 2008. xix, 365 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication
Edited by Farzad Sharifian † and Gary B. Palmer
Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together studies that examine the implications for applied programs of research in these domains. Collectively,… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 7] 2007. xiv, 170 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition
Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction
Edited by Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007) 176 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse, Cognition and Communication
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders and Leo Lentz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 15:3 (2007) ii, 107 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy
Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 3] 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet health column
Miriam A. Locher
Advice Online presents a comprehensive study of advice-giving in one particular American Internet advice column, referred to as ‘Lucy Answers’. The discursive practice investigated is part of a professional and educational health program managed by an American university. The study provides… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 149] 2006. xvi, 277 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes
Edited by Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora
Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociology
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006) 164 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication
Edited by Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije
This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 144] 2006. vi, 339 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Signed languages
Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research
Edited by Saul Carliner, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele
Recent research in information and document design explores research by presenting reports of actual research studies in information and document design. It specifically reports on ten studies in the areas of marketing communication (part one), functional communication (part two) and online… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 7] 2006. xi, 252 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese
Edited by Minglang Zhou
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies
Edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard
While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis,… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 18] 2006. xii, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
Perspectives on Localization
Edited by Keiran J. Dunne
Over the past two decades, international trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA have lowered international trade barriers. At the same time, the information revolution has fueled profound shifts in the ways companies conduct business and communicate with their customers, and worldwide acceptance… read more[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XIII] 2006. vi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
The Spiral of ‘Anti-Other Rhetoric’: Discourses of identity and the international media echo
Élisabeth Le
How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 22] 2006. xii, 280 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Text features which enable cognitive strategies during text comprehension
Edited by Herre van Oostendorp
Special issue of Information Design Journal 14:1 (2006) 100 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Argumentation in Practice
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser
Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists… read more[Controversies, 2] 2005. viii, 368 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part I
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 (2005) 121 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Calling for Help: Language and social interaction in telephone helplines
Edited by Carolyn Baker, Michael Emmison and Alan Firth
Telephone helplines have become one of the most pervasive sites of expert-lay interaction in modern societies throughout the world. Yet surprisingly little is known of the in situ, language-based processes of help-seeking and help-giving behavior that occurs within them. This collection of original… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 143] 2005. xviii, 352 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Signed languages
Identifying information and tenor in texts
Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand
Special issue of Information Design Journal 13:1 (2005) 96 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology
Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk: Formalising structures in a controlled language
Claudia Sassen
This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 136] 2005. ix, 230 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations
Asher Shkedi
This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts
Edited by Xiaoming Li and Christine Pearson Casanave
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005) iv, 207 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Narrative Interaction
Edited by Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker
Telling stories in conversations is intricately interwoven with the interactive and local functions of story telling. Telling stories demands a certain kind of context and in itself establishes a particular interactive reality. Thus, narration is a specific kind of verbal interaction, governed by… read more[Studies in Narrative, 5] 2005. vi, 306 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses
Sverker Johansson
Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 5] 2005. xii, 345 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Philosophy
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
Teun A. van Dijk
This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 14] 2005. xii, 198 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
The Sociolinguistics of Narrative
Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates
This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
(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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Academic Interaction
Edited by Helen Marriott
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14:1 (2004) 199 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller
This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse
Edited by Paul Bayley
The activity of parliaments is largely linguistic activity: they produce talk and they produce texts. Broadly speaking, the objectives that this discourse aims to satisfy are similar all over the world: to legitimate or contest legislation, to represent diverse interests, to scrutinise the activity… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 10] 2004. vi, 384 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Dynamic Consultation: A discourse analytical study of doctor–patient communication
Marisa Cordella
This book introduces a unique model of medical discourse that identifies the forms of talk – voices – that doctors and patients use during the consultation, and studies the dynamic interaction as it unfolds particularly in follow-up visits. Natural recordings, semi-structured interviews,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 128] 2004. xvi, 254 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction
Bernadette Vine
The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Industrial & organizational studies | Pragmatics
Introduction to Discourse Studies
Jan Renkema
Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema’s successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European… read more[Not in series, 124] 2004. x, 363 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Moving Text: Localization, translation, and distribution
Anthony Pym
For the discourse of localization, translation is often "just a language problem". For translation theorists, localization introduces fancy words but nothing essentially new. Both views are probably right, but only to an extent. This book sets up a dialogue across those differences. Is there… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 49] 2004. xviii, 223 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
Perspectives on Multimodality
Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher
This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 6] 2004. x, 249 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
Revisiting the Interpreter’s Role: A study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Claudia V. Angelelli
Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.e. the courts, the hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, and schools. It presents interpreters’ perceptions and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 55] 2004. xvi, 125 pp.
Other subjects Interpreting | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Web Advertising: New forms of communication on the Internet
Anja Janoschka
This book examines new forms of communication that have emerged through the interactive capabilities of the Internet, in particular online advertising and web advertisements. It develops a new model of online communication, incorporating mass communication and interpersonal communication.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 131] 2004. xiv, 230 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals: A survey of style and grammatical metaphor
Inger Lassen
Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 4] 2003. xviii, 183 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Art of Commemoration: Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising
Edited by Titus Ensink and Christoph Sauer
The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 7] 2003. xii, 245 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Communication and Culture in Korea: At the crosswinds of tradition and change
Edited by Eung-jun Min and Eunkyong Yook
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 13:1 (2003) iv, 163 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages
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.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
Shonna L. Trinch
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 17] 2003. x, 315 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Narratives We Organize By
Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi
This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology.… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 11] 2003. x, 276 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Industrial & organizational studies | Pragmatics
Information Design: An introduction
Rune Pettersson
The goal of communication-oriented design of messages should always be clarity of communication. In information design the task of the sender is actually not completed until the receivers have received and understood the intended messages.Information Design – An introduction includes chapters… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 3] 2002. x, 296 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Law Enforcement, Communication, and Community
Edited by Howard Giles
Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas.… read more[Not in series, 112] 2002. x, 265 pp.
Other subjects Forensic & legal linguistics
Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in everyday talk
Neal R. Norrick
This book investigates the forms and functions of storytelling in everyday conversation. It develops a rhetoric of everyday storytelling through an integrated approach to both the internal structure and the contextual integration of narrative passages. It aims at a more complete picture of oral… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 203] 2000. xiv, 233 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics





























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































