Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Prandi, Micaela Rossi
August 26, 2024
This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field’s focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors. The volume brings together a diverse range of researchers in...
Two Dimensions of Meaning: Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture, and Ecology
1st Edition
By Andrew Goatly
August 26, 2024
The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, literate, print, and internet cultures, in language acquisition, pragmatics, dialogism, classification, the semantics of grammar, literature, and, most ...
Independent Wh-Exclamative Constructions in the History of English
1st Edition
By Daniela Schröder
July 31, 2024
This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their development from 1500 through to the twenty-first century. The volume shines a light on independent wh-exclamatives in the history of English. In particular, Schröder calls attention to ...
The Referential Mechanism of Proper Names: Cross-cultural Investigations into Referential Intuitions
1st Edition
By Jincai Li
May 27, 2024
Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a name to a person and hence allows it to refer? Li’s book approaches this question of reference empirically through the medium of referential intuitions....
Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics
1st Edition
By Jim Feist
January 29, 2024
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what ...
Cross-cultural Genre Analysis: Investigating Chinese, Italian and English CSR reports
1st Edition
By Danni Yu
September 25, 2023
This unique monograph provides a theoretical and methodological account on how to do cross-cultural genre analysis with the aids of corpus tools. Cross-cultural genre analysis investigates how discourse communities from different cultural backgrounds use language to realize a particular genre. It ...
Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World
1st Edition
By Wojciech Wachowski, Karen Sullivan
September 25, 2023
This book reflects on the ways in which metonymy and metaphor are used conceptually and linguistically to mitigate the more difficult dimensions of death and dying, setting out a unique line of research within Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The volume argues that metonymic and metaphoric descriptions...
Symmetrizing Syntax: Merge, Minimality, and Equilibria
1st Edition
By Hiroki Narita, Naoki Fukui
September 25, 2023
Symmetrizing Syntax seeks to establish a minimal and natural characterization of the structure of human language (syntax), simplifying many facets of it that have been redundantly or asymmetrically formulated. Virtually all past theories of natural language syntax, from the traditional X-bar ...
Linguistic Worldview(s): Approaches and Applications
1st Edition
By Adam Głaz
May 31, 2023
This book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical structures and patterns of usage, encode interpretations of reality that symbolize, shape, and construct speakers’ cultural experience. The volume traces ...
The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Pacific Reggae
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Turner
May 31, 2023
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and protest. Framed predominantly by the theory and ...
Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference
1st Edition
By Eva Maagerø, Ruth Mulvad, Elise Seip Tønnessen
May 31, 2023
This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL), highlighting how these women have taken the discipline into new and innovative directions, and the enduring impact of their work. The volume features ...
Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior
1st Edition
By Farzad Karimzad, Lydia Catedral
January 09, 2023
In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants’ polycentric identities, imaginations, ideologies, and orientations to home and host countries through the notion of chronotope. The book focuses on the authors’ ...