Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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 ...
Ecolinguistics and Emplacement: Language, Languaging and Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Cowley, Martin Döring, Sune Vork Steffensen
July 30, 2025
This edited volume contributes to recent theoretical work in ecolinguistics that treats language as, not about nature, but of nature. Through a dialogical interplay of theoretical and empirical work, the chapters apply ecological concepts of language, languaging, and emplacement to a multiplicity ...
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
The Referential Mechanism of Proper Names: Cross-cultural Investigations into Referential Intuitions
1st Edition
By Jincai Li
May 27, 2024
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....
Significance in Language: A Theory of Semantics
1st Edition
By Jim Feist
January 29, 2024
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what ...
Cross-cultural Genre Analysis: Investigating Chinese, Italian and English CSR reports
1st Edition
By Danni Yu
September 25, 2023
This unique monograph provides a theoretical and methodological account on how to do cross-cultural genre analysis with the aids of corpus tools. Cross-cultural genre analysis investigates how discourse communities from different cultural backgrounds use language to realize a particular genre. It ...