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Quantification
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 36.00The most useful and rigorous overview of quantification to date. more...
Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research... more...
Language, Thought and Reference
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework. more...
Argumentation in Dispute Mediation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00The 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 mediation as a real-life context of argumentation and to... more...
The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne , yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts for their pragmatic properties and sequential... more...
Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between... more...
Introducing Pragmatics in Use
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 33.95Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics, which both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. Pragmatics is the study of language in context, yet most textbooks rely on invented language examples. This innovative textbook systematically draws on language corpora to illustrate... more...
Colouring Meaning
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation,... more...
Cultural Conceptualisations and Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology, anthropological linguistics, distributed cognition,... more...
Journalism and the Political
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00Journalism 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, inconsistencies and tensions. By analysing international... more...









