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Through theoretical and methodological frameworks, researchers from writing studies, communication disorders, communication studies, applied... Læs mere
This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature... Læs mere
A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by relevance theorists... Læs mere
This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge that apparent optional movement poses for the Minimalist Programme.
In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary... Læs mere
This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. The book... Læs mere
This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among... Læs mere
This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns... Læs mere
This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.
Through a reevaluation of the work of some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, this book details how semiotics, social sense, and social communication can function together to analyze how culture works in the contemporary era.
This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languages, including... Læs mere
Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through... Læs mere