This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

A renewed interest in grammar from pedagogical and research perspectives has created the
need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners …

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 …

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions,
conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents a normative pragmatics analysis of students' use of science content in
eight socioscientific group discussions about human gene therapy. The specific focus of the …

This user-friendly introduction to a new 'performative'methodology in linguistic pragmatics
breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine …