This is a book about grammar, broadly conceived, and ideology. I do not mean here
attitudes towards grammar, such as the prescriptivism of people concerned with a perceived …

Authenticity has been a focus of much leadership research in recent years. Despite this
interest, there has been a dearth of studies that explore the role of gender in the social …

It is often claimed that a picture tells us more than a thousand words, but studying pictorial
metaphors reveals how much background knowledge is needed to understand and evaluate …

One stream of the series provides texts on the key methodologies used in qualitative
research. The other stream contains books on qualitative research for different disciplines or …

It is not that people disbelieve the news that they consume, but that its long-term impact
upon their political confidence is corrosive. They come to believe that if the world is as they …

Over the past decades, metaphor has come to be seen as a trope that governs thought, not
just language. A consequence of accepting this view is that its manifestations should be …

The concept of multimodal metaphor has generated a growing body of literature over the
past decades. However, a systemic review of the domain seems to be lacking in relevant …

Many previous studies have documented the procyclicality of fertility to business cycles or
labour market indicators in Western countries. However, part of the recent fertility decline …

This chapter presents an approach that aims at analyzing embodied gestalts of rich narrative
meanings in movies and television series in terms of audiovisual metaphors. By …

Интенсивное развитие коммуникационных технологий и их активное внедрение в
процессы политической борьбы создало новые возможности в организации массовых …