This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language. Pragmatics is concerned with "meaning in context," or the relationship between what we say and what we mean. John Wilson explores the various ways in which US Presidents have used language within specific social c…
Contemporary critical discourse studies
CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoreti…
Corpus interrogation and grammatical patterns: papers from the 33rd International Conference on …
by Davidse, Kristin, International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora, Louvain, International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, International ICAME Conference
fromStudies in corpus linguistics
"What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and in literary texts, as well as in landscape art? Is this shared vocabulary marking real connections between the disparate phenomena? This volume argues that human cognition is not only rooted in the hu…
Alston defines an illocutionary act as an act of saying something with a certain "content." He develops his account of what it is to perform such acts in terms of taking responsibility, in uttering a sentence, for the existence of certain conditions. In requesting someone to ope…
