Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Decoding Korean Political Talk: From Data to Debate
1st Edition
By Sujin Kang
January 30, 2026
This book offers an illuminating exploration into the complex world of political communication in South Korea from 2016 to 2021. Through an in-depth analysis of 34 political conversations totalling over 275 hours, this book presents a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study combining quantitative ...
Independent Wh-Exclamative Constructions in the History of English
1st Edition
By Daniela Schröder
November 27, 2025
This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their development from 1500 through to the twenty-first century. The volume shines a light on independent wh-exclamatives in the history of English. In particular, Schröder calls attention to ...
Anglicisms around the Globe: Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English
1st Edition
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By Henrik Gottlieb, Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin, Alicja Witalisz, Keisuke Imamura, Jaime W. Hunt
November 14, 2025
This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages. This volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change operates across several different languages simultaneously. ...
Data Analytics for Discourse Analysis with Python: The Case of Therapy Talk
1st Edition
By Dennis Tay
August 29, 2025
This concise volume, using examples of psychotherapy talk, showcases the potential applications of data analytics for advancing discourse research and other related disciplines. The book provides a brief primer on data analytics, defined as the science of analyzing raw data to reveal new insights ...
Coordination and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
1st Edition
By Stefanie Bode
July 30, 2025
This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar. The volume’s foundations are rooted in the SMT, which builds on the idea that laws of nature, such as ...
Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics: Developments by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1st Edition
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By Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma
May 05, 2025
This collection reflects on developments in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, highlighting his diverse contributions to the field from theoretical and applied perspectives. The book surveys Matthiessen’s academic career and ...
The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality: Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages
1st Edition
By Marie-Eve Ritz
April 13, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs), illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages. The volume takes as its point of departure the notion ...
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages
1st Edition
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By Elin McCready, Hiroki Nomoto
December 19, 2024
Within linguistics, there has been a great deal of interest in discourse particles for some time now, especially within semantics and pragmatics. The term ‘discourse particles’ has been used to cover a broad range of phenomena, including such things as ‘sentence final particles,’ ‘discourse adverbs...
Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I: East Asia
1st Edition
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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 (...
Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account
1st Edition
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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 ...