The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's l...

'This volume brings scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st-century. One of fiv...

This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the...

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe the English la...

A fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works.

Analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interactio...

Textual Explorations General EditorsMick Short, Lancaster UniversityElena Semino, Lancaster Unive...

Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to reinvigorate this field, pointing the...

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of meth...

This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although s...

Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of meth...

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken ...