Elena Semino: 3 books

Book cover of Corpus Stylistics

Corpus Stylistics

Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

by Elena Semino, Mick Short
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguisticsĀ to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million...
Book cover of Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts
by Elena Semino
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates...
Book cover of Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life
by Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

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 the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used...
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