Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I: East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Elin McCready, Hiroki Nomoto
December 18, 2024
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics. Within linguistics, there has been a great deal of interest in discourse particles, especially within ...
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II: Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroki Nomoto, Elin McCready
December 18, 2024
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics. Despite increasing interest in discourse particles, most research in the area (...
Introducing Evolutionary Pragmatics: How Language Emerges from Use
1st Edition
Edited
By Ines Adornetti, Francesco Ferretti
November 19, 2024
This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field. The volume adopts a broad view of pragmatics, providing a ...
Benjamin Franklin's English: Form to Function Analyses
1st Edition
By Yoko Iyeiri
November 06, 2024
This book delves into Benjamin Franklin’s English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. Utilizing corpus methodologies, it offers researchers in historical sociolinguistics unique insights. Benjamin Franklin...
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 ...
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 ...