Language helps people communicate and think. Precise and accurate language would
seem best suited to achieve these goals. But a close look at the way people actually talk …

Can lawyers be sharks, can jobs literally be jails, and can dogs fly across lawns? Such
metaphors create novel categories that enable us to characterize the topic of interest. These …

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-
based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguistic structure is not stable …

America, rock musician T. Nugent tried to rally support for the Republican candidate at a
National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis by announcing a vigorous campaign against …

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical
guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a …

Framing is an important concept in communication, yet many framing studies set out to
develop frames relevant to only one issue. We expand framing theory by introducing …

Intercultural PragmatIcs Page 1 2024 · Volume 21 · Issue 1 Intercultural PragmatIcs edItor-In-chIef
Professor Dr. Istvan Kecskes State University of New York at Albany reVIew edItor Dr. Jesus …

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that
distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical …

This paper argues for the need to recognize a new order of syntactic phenomena, and for a
theory of syntax capable of addressing it. Dialogic syntax encompasses the linguistic …

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …