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This book offers an examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how an informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into temporal systems of languages.

This book proposes a linguistic-competence-based account of referential intuitions. Using a series of novel experiments and the subsequent empircal results, Li argues for a fresh construal of the notion of reference and a pluralist account of the referential mechanism of proper names.

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.

"This volume challenges and extends previous approaches from systemic functional linguistics to understand the language of science and knowledge building from a linguistic perspective.

All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn't mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body is the same everywhere.

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.

Begins with an introduction to the idea behind Indo-European, a brief survey of its subfamilies.

This book presents the thought of Charles S. Peirce and its relevancy to linguistics - in particular to semiotics, or the study of signs.

This monograph comprises the first complete treatment of the Irish language in social context throughout the whole of the island of Ireland, with a particular focus on contemporary society.

Argues that dialogic use of linguistic metaphor should be the primary site of investigation and theory building for metaphor studies, and that cognitive metaphor theory needs to be compatible with empirical findings from specific discourse contexts.

Analyses the communication strategies of six charismatic non-western leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mohammed Mahathir, and Lee Kuan Yew. This book describes how each of these leaders designed a unique style that integrated verbal and non-verbal modes of communication.

Examines structure sensitivity. This book focuses on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction. It argues that structure sensitivity is highly variable both within and across languages, and consequently an unlikely candidate for a defining property of human language.

Investigates the style, or 'voice', of English language translations of twentieth century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches and film. This work develops existing models of stylistic analysis, to examine a range of works and writers, selected for their literary, cultural and ideological importance.

Using a corpus-linguistics approach, this book examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughables' and what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. It focuses on the tactical use of humour to achieve specific rhetorical ends. It also considers the implications these observations may have about humour theory in general.

Approaches the topic of false friends from a theoretical perspective, arguing that false friends carry out a positive role as a cognitive device, mainly in literature and jokes, and suggesting some pragmatic strategies in order to restore the original sense of a text/utterance when a given translator falls victim to false friends.

Offers a look at what changing images of community American and British lesbian authors have communicated since 1970, how this change can be traced in texts such as pamphlets, magazines and blogs, and why this change has taken place. This work is intended for students in linguistics, anthropology, history and sociology, and women's/gender studies.

Graeme Ritchie advocates a cognitive science approach to humour research, aiming for higher levels of detail and formality than has been customary in humour research, and argues the case for analyzing jokes and humour.

This volume challenges and extends previous approaches from systemic functional linguistics to understand the language of science and knowledge building from a linguistic perspective.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Köaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.