Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects
1st Edition
By Yolanda Fernández-Pena
August 01, 2022
*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)* *Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)* *Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and ...
Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Alireza Korangy, Farzad Sharifian
April 29, 2022
Korangy and Sharifian’s groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever spoken, can be examined. Linguistics with ...
The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues
1st Edition
By Ivor Timmis
April 29, 2022
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, ‘How were the poor, ...
Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language
1st Edition
By Michele Prandi
July 12, 2019
This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can ...
A Forensic Linguistic Approach to Legal Disclosures: ERISA Cash Balance Conversion Cases and the Contextual Dynamics of Deception
1st Edition
By James Stratman
August 23, 2018
This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly fraudulent disclosure documents. The usual goal of ...
Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction
1st Edition
By Tamar Sovran
February 05, 2018
This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the ...
Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
1st Edition
By Peter Schrijver
November 04, 2016
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the ...
Metonymy and Language: A New Theory of Linguistic Processing
1st Edition
By Charles Denroche
November 03, 2016
Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and overlaps. Through the use of original data sets and rigorous primary research, Denroche characterizes metonymy as key to ...
Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce’s Marginalia
1st Edition
By Ivan Mladenov
December 01, 2014
The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be ...
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes
1st Edition
By Graeme Ritchie
February 25, 2014
This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of scientific interest). Second, there is currently no theory of how humour works. Third, one useful step towards a theory of humour is to analyze ...
The Irish Language in Ireland: From Goídel to Globalisation
1st Edition
By Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
June 24, 2013
This book comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society. The possibilities and limitations of the craft of language planning for the revival of the Irish language are outlined and the ...
Metaphor and Reconciliation: The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in Post-Conflict Conversations
1st Edition
By Lynne Cameron
January 29, 2013
Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, ‘walking the footsteps of the bombers’ as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but to try to understand his motivations and ...