Research over the past four decades has built a convincing case that co‐speech hand
gestures play a powerful role in human cognition. However, this recent focus on the …

Modern society depends on numerical information, which must be communicated accurately
and effectively. Numerical communication is accomplished in different modalities—speech …

Public speakers like politicians carefully craft their words to maximize the clarity, impact, and
persuasiveness of their messages. However, these messages can be shaped by more than …

For years, the construction of social subjectivity has been conditioned by the role of the so‐
called mass media, but the multiplicity of media platforms today contributes to the …

This dissertation examines the capacity of interactive gesture to contribute to discourse
structure independent of accompanying speech. The close relationship between gesture …

Despite the inherently multimodal nature of the courtroom, studies of multimodality in
forensic linguistics have been scarce. This study uses the stance triangle and ideological …

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a form of discourse analysis (see Chapter 10) that is
specifically concerned with the way power and inequality are constructed through …

In this book, Christopher Hart provides a comprehensive description of an applied form of
Cognitive Linguistics in Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). Cognitive …

The paper discusses the relationship between leadership and expressivity as exemplified by
the Polish President's address to the Ukrainian Parliament delivered on 22 May 2022. The …

The role of the military is often clear: identify, engage, and destroy the enemy. This is true of
all conflicts throughout human history, with armies varying in complexity and scale. This …