Browsing Language Studies by Subject "200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)"
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‘Dearest beloved one, I need your assistance’: The rhetoric of spam mail
(Oxford University Press, 2010-01)The article offers an overview of strategies deployed by spammers in the Dearly beloved e-mail genre, analyzes the rhetoric of spam mail and considers its implications for teaching and research particularly into English ... -
What metaphors tell us about the market: reconciling linguistics, cognition and pragmatics in order to understand the impact of metaphor use on society
(2018-06-27)In the last 25 years, traditional approaches to the treatment of metaphor have been increasingly questioned on both theoretical and experimental grounds and, as a result, Metaphorology has become a flourishing academic ...