Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of
current sociolinguistic methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can …

This paper suggests an explanatory functional characterization of newspaper headlines.
Couched within Sperber and Wilson's (1986) relevance theory, the paper makes the claim …

In this article, I explore the main theoretical issues facing researchers in conversational
humor today. In particular, I address (1) the structure of humorous discourse;(2) the forms of …

A clear and lively introduction to current trends in the theory, method and tools of discourse
studies, this book is a valuable guide for students and teachers of linguistics as well as for …

Levinson (1985, 1987a & b, 1991) and Ariel (1985a & b, 1987, 1988a & b, 1990a, 1991)
have each proposed to anchor discourse and sentential anaphora within a more general …

Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such
as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem …

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a
“person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression. This book offers a significant …