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This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice realised in discourse that is based on a dichotomy between “the people” who are unified by their will and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties what role national identities and values play in those motivations and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and spaces; Part III discusses audiovisual translation; and Part IV explores translation in a wider context that includes transforming senses and action into language. The issues that transpire as worth exploring in these areas are mediality and multi-modality interpersonal pragmatics close and approximate renditions interpretese and translationese participation structures and the negotiation of discourses and power.

The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk safety and security but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered – such as COVID-19 nuclear energy machine translation terrorism – are socially pertinent and timely.

If thinking can be fast or slow metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean however that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously been acknowledged. We can even offer resistance to metaphor.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) claims that there is an essential processing difference between non-deliberate and deliberate metaphor use which can explain all this. This book is the first full account of the DMT model for metaphor comprehension. It presents explicit conceptualization and formal operationalization and is based on a well-known cognitive-psychological model for all utterance comprehension in discourse. The original three-dimensional model of DMT is here refined into a four-dimensional model which reveals new research questions and discoveries about the use of metaphor.<br/>The book brings together numerous cognitive-scientific insights into metaphor. It has a high degree of interdisciplinary accessibility to all students of metaphor whether master students PhDs post docs or established academics.

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic evidential hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German it shows for the first time that all four adverbial classes can have both truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional (parenthetical) readings. A novel account is presented according to which (non-)truth-conditional readings may arise at either the syntactic or the pragmatic level. Couched in relevance theory the book also re-examines the explicature and illocutionary status of the adverbial qualification and the qualified proposition and refines the notions of pointhood and at-issueness to provide an original information-structural analysis applicable to not just sentence adverbials but a range of other propositional qualifiers. Finally the investigation identifies five factors affecting (non-)truth-conditional interpretation: linear position prosody the semantics of the adverbial its information-structural properties and the wider context. The book will be of interest to those interested in relevance theory the semantics/pragmatics interface the syntax/pragmatics interface and information structure as well as for syntacticians semanticists and pragmatists interested in sentence adverbials other propositional qualifiers and parentheticality syntactic and interpretational.

Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures namely expository questions and rhetorical questions in the classical Chinese tradition. Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent answers in the addressee’s mind thereby involving a fictive type of interaction. The book analyzes fictive questions as intersubjective mixed viewpoint constructions involving a viewpoint blend of the perspectives of the writer the assumed prospective readers and possibly also that of the discourse characters. The analysis further shows that in addition to attention other late developing human capacities such as mental simulation and perspective taking also have a pivotal role to play in rhetoric on the basis of which a simulation-based rhetorical model of persuasion is proposed to account for meaning construction in rhetorical practices. The book will influence our understanding of rhetorical practices outside the Western tradition but within the framework of cognitive semantics.

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics. Also included are chapters that present pedagogical approaches that bring teachers and learners together in action in the classroom setting. Written by an international team of experts the volume examines the most relevant topics on instructional pragmatics in a variety of language contexts including Brazil China Germany Japan Spain the United States and Vietnam. This global perspective represents a key contribution in the current increasingly multilingual and multicultural society. Taken together the findings presented have diverse research and pedagogical implications and provide new directions to explore L2 pragmatic competence. This innovative book will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students as well as for language teachers and course developers.

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e. linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization flow and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap by integrating different linguistic subfields such as discourse analysis pragmatics and typology. The contributions both theoretically and empirically oriented focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They highlight different aspects of televisual characterisation and showcase the use of different data methods and approaches in its analysis. Uniquely the book takes a mixed-method approach and will thus not only appeal to corpus linguists but also researchers in sociolinguistics stylistics and pragmatics. All corpus linguistic techniques are clearly introduced and explained and the book is thus accessible to both experienced researchers as well as novice researchers and students. It will be essential reading in linguistics literature stylistics and media/television studies.

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation tone of voice their facial expressions their gestures the positioning of their bodies towards each other and so on. This volume brings together eleven empirical studies that investigate these various modalities of im/politeness across signed spoken and written languages plus a detailed introductory chapter that establishes a framework for the multimodal investigation of im/politeness. The papers cover a range of languages and cultures including Swiss German Sign Language Catalan Sign Language English (as a native language and as a lingua franca) Korean Catalan Persian Japanese and Spanish. Using a range of data sources and state-of-the art methodologies the papers reveal that these multimodal features are essential aspects of im/politeness across different languages cultures and modes of interaction. Put together the findings from these studies lay the groundwork for a new understanding of im/politeness which is fundamentally multimodal.