This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony,
deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and …

In this pioneering book Kasia Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of
meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts …

The research presented here has the aim of uncovering the underlying mechanisms in the
process of lexicalization crosslinguistically. The term 'lexicalization'means the way …

This research combines elements in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics,
using empirical data to contribute to our understanding of the processing of polite discourse …

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human
beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different …

In this paper I shall argue that we have to focus on units of pragmatic analysis such as the
pragmeme. A pragmeme is a situated speech act in which the rules of language and of …

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception …

Children with closed head injury (CHI) have semantic-pragmatic language problems that
include difficulty in understanding and producing both literal and nonliteral statements. For …