Linguistics of crime, the
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108471008
Date de publication :
5 janv. 2023
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,8 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
660 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book explores the social and ideological importance of crime, and the great fascination it holds, from a linguistic angle. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres.