Politics, like religion and education, is one of those spheres of institutional life in which language is largely, although not exclusively, constitutive of its actions. This title illustrates the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing the war in Iraq.

This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key areas of current semantics and pragmatics: implicature, negation and presupposition.

Positioned within the field of linguistics and multisemiotic discourse analysis, the theme of this book is the multifaceted interaction between text and image in different discourse genres, and it offers critical views on how we talk and show our experience of the world around us.

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Examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. This work explores the origins, progress, content and style of political correctness, discussing and analyzing around one hundred terms and lexical formations, from Chaucer and Shakespeare, Marlowe and Swift, to nursery rhymes, rap and Spike Lee films.

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This book illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches. It is suitable for researches and postgraduates in applied linguistics.

This study of discourse modes offers a new fruitful level of analysis.

Dealing with media discourse, this book shares the quality of being concerned with news discourse and striving to find new ways of analysing news discourse.

A study that focuses on the dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas or by coinages from scratch. It analyzes such topics as: imitation, rumor, political correctness, jargon, euphemism, plagiarism, stereotyping (racial or otherwise), repetition, and caricature.

Presents a full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. This work discusses the relevance of the theory of priming in this area, and whether semantic prosody has cogency as a theoretical concept.

A provoking new approach to how we understand metaphors thoroughly comparing and contrasting the claims made by relevance theorists and cognitive linguists. The resulting hybrid theory shows the complementarity of many positions as well as the need and possibility of achieving a broader and more realistic theory of our understanding.

A comprehensive reference that gives the reader an insight into various concepts, theories, issues and scholars that have shaped the field of pragmatics.

A lexicon of semiotic concepts, the book defines over 500 critical terms and describes how they have been used, building a semiotics dictionary. It explores linguistically-orientated terminology in cinema studies; the semiotics of film narrative; and the psycho-semiology of the cinema.

Provides an introduction to the key concepts of semiotics. This edition presents examples including computer and mobile phone technology, television commercials and the web. It also covers questions such as: What is a sign? Which codes do we take for granted? How can semiotics be used in textual analysis? And, what is a text?

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject.

This accessible textbook in the Intertext series is unique in offering student's practical experience of textual analysis focused on the language of politics. It can be used individually or with the series core textbook.

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An amalgam of research from sociolinguistics, ethnography, anthropology and sociology, giving a cohesive analysis of professional discourse. This text covers the theoretical issues of the construction of language and written and spoken discourse, and offers historical and linguistic perspectives.