Bøger af Andrew (Lingnan University

Using over a hundred jokes as linguistic examples, this book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour. It is an entertaining and user-friendly textbook for advanced students of semantics, pragmatics and humour studies.

Explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, this textbook provides a model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them.