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…

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or ‘voice,’ of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and…

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…

With the crisis of leadership in the western democracies, there has been a growth of interest in how leaders outside of the west emerge and…

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…

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,…

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…