The present textbook is based on two preceding editions. In 1993, Jan Renkema published
his volume Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook, which was updated under the …

This book advocates for a new analytical framework that extends our understanding of
multimodal meaning-making in the novel. Integrating theoretical traditions from stylistics and …

Relevance theory is a framework for the study of cognition, proposed primarily in order to
provide a psychologically realistic account of communication. This paper (1) presents …

Style plays a major role in the translation of literary as well as non-literary texts, and
Translation and Style offers an updated survey of this highly interdisciplinary area of …

One of the fiercest debates in the field of language and literary studies used to surround the
proposal that the teaching of language and literature be integrated. On the language side …

This study was designed to discover the types of conversational implicature and the non-
observance maxim of cooperative principles expressed by the characters in the Kingdom of …

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of
the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety …

Pragmatics: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the study of verbal
and nonverbal communication in context. Including nine chapters on the history of …

This chapter investigates the aims and scope and methodological underpinnings of
ecostylistics, against the background of ecocriticism, ecolinguistics and stylistics. The …

Linguistically speaking, the concept of humor, which seems to be vast for people, has
specific dimensions by which it is generated including: puns, irony, sarcasm, wittiness, and …