Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Linguistics

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 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.

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a name to a person and hence allows it to refer?Li's book approaches this question of reference empirically through the medium of referential intuitions. Building on the literature on philosophical and linguistic intuitions, she proposes a linguistic-competence-based account of referential intuitions. Subsequently, using a series of novel experiments, she investigates the variation of referential intuitions across different cultures, as well as the developmental trajectory and the underlying causes of the observed cultural differences. What she finds is that the cultural patterns of referential intuitions are already in place around age seven, and the differences are largely attributable to the distinct perspective-taking strategies favoured by easterners and westerners, rather than the moral valence of actions involved in the experimental materials. These results are taken to better support referential pluralism (in particular, the ambiguous view) than referential monism.By undertaking this fascinating research, Li's book provides new insights into the cognitive mechanism underlying people's referential usage of names. It will be valuable to students and scholars of linguistics, philosophy of language and experimental philosophy, and in particular, to those who research into semantic intuitions and theories of reference.

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.

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.

This book showcases research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective, providing a foundation for practice and further research for scholars working in this area.

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.

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.

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.

This book examines the ways in which Polari - a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men - was used in order to construct 'gay identities' in the UK over the past fifty years.

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.

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.

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.

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.