Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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 ...
Structure in Language: A Dynamic Perspective
1st Edition
By Thomas Berg
September 20, 2012
This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in psycholinguistic terms. The focus of the book is on structural representations, in particular their ...
Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
1st Edition
By Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez
November 09, 2010
This book 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 ...
Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community
1st Edition
By Veronika Koller
June 07, 2010
Lesbian Discourses is the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse. It looks 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 ...
The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk
1st Edition
By Alan Partington
October 13, 2009
The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. In particular, Alan Partington ...