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Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, and phrasal verbs. This title draws together diverse international work on formulaic language such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles and phrasal verbs.

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Offers a specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways. This book provides an approach to discourse analysis for both linguists and non-linguistics. If demonstrates how to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies of a language analysis.

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Presents an approach to discourse analysis for both linguists and non-linguistics. This book offers an easily accessible specific methodology for describing the nuances of spoken and written texts, of any length, in meaning and manageable ways. It demonstrates how to compile, contextualize and communicate the intricacies of a language analysis.

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This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.

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This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.

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Takes a comparative, diachronic perspective on Chinese politeness and itsevolution up to the present day, linking diachronic and synchronic approaches.

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Compares traditional and contemporary Chinese polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them. This book intends to study the driving forces behind the large-scale diachronic formation of Chinese politeness norms. It is of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the field of linguistics.

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"While covering typical pragmatics topics, this book presents a new view on pragmatics: integrative pragmatics. It is comprehensive in its coverage, yet incorporates state-of-the-art research. Examples and case studies throughout connect theory with data, and illuminate how pragmatics phenomena and concepts are realised or tempered in English"--

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This book provides a rhetorical criticism of the presidential powers used by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the War on Terror. A close reading of the documents used to exercise presidential powers reveals the ways in which both presidents expanded the personal power of the office.

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This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.

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This book examines the relation of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on Raising to object position to the surface structure syntactic results of that rule. The investigation is limited primarily to English constructions of four types and to verbs that embed clauses describing propositions.

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This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together insights into the processing of persuasive messages, attitude theory as viewed from a neural network model, and models of resistance to influence.

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Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

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Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

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Explores the complex nature of idiomaticity, by bringing a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and judgement data. Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question: Which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction

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This collection examines the different forces and factors that affect professional writing and communication practices in various social, economic, political, and technological contexts in the nations of the former Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc.