" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project
meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that …

Ritual is popularly associated with ceremonies, though in real life it plays a significantly
more important role, reinforcing what people perceive as the appropriate moral order of …

The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

This book has grown out of my PhD thesis and so the acknowledgements that I made in the
introduction to that are equally pertinent here. First and foremost I owe a great deal to Mick …

This book started its life as a thesis. However, it would never have been started at all without
the support of my friends, colleagues and family. My thesis examiners, Andreas Jucker, Katie …

Studies in historical pragmatics have increased noticeably during the last twenty years, and
the use of discourse markers in past periods of the English language has emerged as an …

In this position paper, we provide an overview of what we regard as the most important
features of the relationship between the moral order and morality in the context of language …

This study charts the early history of canonical tag questions in English (eg, It is cold, isn't it?)
focusing on the sixteenth century and using drama texts as a source. By means of semi …

Work in the area of pragmatics and corpus annotation is much less advanced than other
annotation work (grammatical annotation schemes, for example). In this chapter, we will …