Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

America, rock musician T. Nugent tried to rally support for the Republican candidate at a
National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis by announcing a vigorous campaign against …

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is an inter-disciplinary approach to language in use, which
aims to advance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social …

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zolt n K vecses proposes a metaphorical grounding
that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual …

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …

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 …

The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining
the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is …

The subtitle of this book was formulated in Cáceres, in May 2008. We were at the seventh
international conference for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7) and saw that a …

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their
use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social …

This third edition of Qualitative Research in Business and Management has been updated
with some of the more recent developments in qualitative research, such as an increased …