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In recent years the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor. But if metaphorical representations of time are established in the cognitive system how are they manipulated when humans are engaged in creative expression? This is the question that the present volume addresses on the assumption that by interrogating creativity new insights into our understanding of time may be gained. Our view of creativity which informs the ten chapters that compose this volume endorses not only the extraordinary instances found in poetry and the arts (cinema music graphic novels etc.) but also its more ‘mundane’ everyday manifestations that appear in ordinary language use political discourse or TV news. Spanning across modalities (verbal pictorial auditory and gestural) the exemplary expressions herein are intended to reflect the richness and diversity vis-à-vis the creativity of time representations while also pointing to the common underpinnings that motivate and constrain creativity.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.

Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy coaching doctor-patient interaction and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential communicative practices of relationship management. A summarizing contribution identifies common dimensions of relationship management across the different helping contexts and thereby provides a framework for understanding and researching how interactive practices and helping relationships are interconnected. The volume brings together researchers and practitioners and merges academic approaches to studying relationships with practical knowledge about verbal helping in these settings. The book is intended for scholars in the field of organized helping as well as for students and researchers of communication and discourse / conversation analysis in professional and organized contexts. It is also addressed to practitioners interested in learning more about the micro- and meso-management of their working relationships.

The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) is a collection of articles describing traditions methods and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods articles from the 24 annual installments of the Handbook that have been published so far. It also includes revised versions of some of the entries in the first edition. In addition a cumulative index provides cross-references to related topical entries in the annual installments of the Handbook and the Handbook of Pragmatics Online (at https://benjamins.com/online/hop/) which continues to be updated and expanded. This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: “the science of language use in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional (i.e. cognitive social and cultural) perspective on language and communication.”

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation. This means that the choices involved in utilising a particular argumentative style do not only concern the presentational dimension but also the topical selection and the audience adaptation of the strategic manoeuvring taking place in the discourse. In identifying the functional variety of the argumentative styles utilised in the political the diplomatic the legal the facilitatory the academic and the medical domain the point of departure is that these argumentative styles manifest themselves in the discourse in the argumentative moves that are made the dialectical routes that are chosen and the strategic considerations that are brought to bear.

Discourse particles have often been treated as a phenomenon restricted to Germanic languages (Abraham 2020) and they still raise questions about their nature as an independent category. This book reveals that this phenomenon exists in other languages as well and provides evidence for their nature as a separate category. The volume brings together a collection of nine papers that focus on three research topics: a) the diachronic development of discourse particles; b) their syntactic analysis; and c) the study of their semantic-pragmatics. Furthermore it also discusses other issues less often dealt with in the literature but of great interest for linguistic theory such as the acquisition of discourse particles by children or the analysis of elements not usually considered discourse particles but whose historical path or microvariation indicates otherwise. Additionally the book offers a cross-linguistic perspective as it discusses various languages including Basque Catalan German Italian Laz Mandarin Chinese Old English Portuguese and Spanish.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.

Also available as Online Resource: https://benjamins.com/online/hop

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning in particular indirect speech acts to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure communicative function and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring Markers in English such as after all also all the same by the way further and moreover (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding. Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like further instead moreover are distinguished from multifunctional ones like after all and by the way. Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional changes the book is in three parts: foundational concepts case studies and currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification into a constructional account of change whether position in a clause is a construction and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance has increasingly led us to give more weight to explanations involving inferential reasoning discourse organization and speakers’ rhetorical strategies thus moving away from ‘sentence-based’ perspectives. At the same time this shift towards pragmatic complexity has introduced new challenges to well-established information-structural categories such as Focus and Topic to the point that some scholars nowadays even doubt about their descriptive and theoretical usefulness. <br/> This book brings together researchers working in different frameworks and delving into cross-linguistic as well as language-internal variation and language contact. Despite their differences all contributions are committed to the same underlying goal: appreciating the relation between linguistic structures and their context based on a firm empirical grounding and on theoretical models that are able to account for the challenges and richness of language use.<br/>