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Book SynopsisThis book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result is a systematic and comprehensive theory of the interpretation, analysis and evaluation of arguments. This theory sheds light on the many faces of argumentative communication: verbal and non-verbal, monological and dialogical, literal and non-literal, ordinary and specialized.The book takes into consideration the major current comprehensive accounts of good argumentation (Perelman’s New Rhetoric, Pragma-dialectics, the ARG model, the Epistemic Approach) and shows that these accounts have fundamental weaknesses rooted in their instrumentalist conception of argumentation as an activity oriented to a goal external to itself. Furthermore, the author addresses some challenging meta-theoretical questions such as the justification problem for Argumentation Theory models and the relationship between reasoning and arguing.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“Bermejo-Luque’s book Giving Reasons has the ambition of developing a new theoretical approach to argumentation that integrates logical, dialectical and rhetorical aspects. The author uses speech act theory to realize her ideal of ‘a linguistic-pragmatic approach’ to argumentation. … provide a coherent, systematic and comprehensive model for argument analysis and evaluation which overcomes the shortcomings of the current models and approaches to argumentation. … Giving Reasons will be of interest to argumentation theorists, as it raises some important issues.” (C. Andone, Argumentation, Vol. 26, 2012)Table of ContentsPreface.- I Argumentation and Its Study.- II Why Do We Need a New Theory of Argumentation?.- III Acts of Arguing.- IV The Logical Dimension of Argumentation.- V The Dialectical Dimension of Argumentation.- VI The Rhetorical Dimension of Argumentation.- VII Argumentation Appraisal.- References.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The empirical landscape of Mandarin equation constructions.- etc.

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Book SynopsisThe verb suffix zhe  in northwestern chinese dialects.- Imperfective viewpoints and situation types.- The verb object construction.- The strong tendency of zhe to Occur at the post object position.- Parallelism between zhe in nwds and Present Imperfective Markers in non han languages.

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Book Synopsis Introduction.- Agent omission with -za.- Agent omission with -zhe.- Agent omission with -le.- Agent omission with -guo.- Concluding remarks.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Studies on Inter-clausal Anaphora and Conditionals.- Generalization From More Perspectives.- Conditional Complex Sentences.- Hypothetical Complex Sentences.- Five Anaphoric Types in Chinese Conditionals.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Word Meaning Formation and Structural Analysis.- Chapter 3. Word meaning genes and word meaning calculation describe the metalinguistic system.- Chapter 4. Analysis and Extraction of Word Meaning Genes.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. ELT curriculum from a Cultural Linguistics perspective.- Chapter 2. Creating space for meta-cultural competence in ELT learning materials: The case of tertiary education in Serbia.- Chapter 3. Cultural Linguistics and ELT materials: Exploring religious conceptualizations in Iranian locally-developed textbooks. Chapter 4. The conceptualizations of home in (Eastern) German ELT textbooks.- Chapter 5. Cultural conceptualization of gender in Iranian high school English textbooks.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- A Diachronic Overview of Traditional Metaphor Research.- Conceptual Metaphor Theory.- Conceptual Blending Theory.- Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Metaphorology: Embodied Philosophy.- the Cultural Connotation Dimension of Cognitive Metaphorology.- Body Metaphor A Case Study of Heart.- Body Metaphor A Case Study of head.- Emotion Metaphor.- Affect Metaphor A Case Study of Love.- Synaesthesia Metaphor.- Time Metaphor.- Color Metaphor.- Animal Metaphors.- Idiomatic Metaphors.- Grammatical Metaphor.- Metonymy.- Metaphor and Foreign Language Teaching.- Metaphor and Translation.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisRethinking Power Dynamics in Multilingual TESOL: De-constructing and Re-constructing Power ‘in’, ‘of’ and ‘for’ Language Classrooms.- Part I: The Power ‘in’ Language Classrooms.- Ideological Clashes in Becoming: TESOL Student Teachers’ Attempts to Deconstruct Power in the Real and Imagined Classroom.- Whose Classroom? Teaching Reading to Multilingual Adolescents.- A Cross-Case Analysis: Latinx and Chinese Emergent Bilinguals Develop Cultural and Linguistic Identities.- (Re)constructing Power in the Language Classroom via Portfolio Assessment: Facilitating Multilingual Students’ Linguistic and Cultural Competence.- “A Multilingual Person can Cross Languages to Communicate Easily”: An Adult ‘English Learner’ makes Meaning of/from Critical Classroom Materials.- Part II: The Power ‘of’ Language Classrooms.- Language Proficiency and Linguistic Citizenship: Rethinking Multilingual TESOL through an Emotional Geography of Languages.- (Re)Creating Multilingual TESOL Classroom: Insights from Pakistani Undergraduate Education Reform Policy.- A Critical Review of Multilingual Policies and Researchers’ Voices About the Power of English in Language Classrooms in India.- Making Strides to Center Multilingual Learners: Fostering Equitable Pedagogies as Monolingual White Teachers.- Part III: The Power ‘for’ Language Classrooms.- Resisting Monolingualism through Critical Autoethnographic Narratives: Insights from Two Teacher Education Contexts.- Translanguaging in the Japanese Tertiary CLIL Classroom: Exploring Teacher Perceptions and Practices.- Decolonizing TESOL Classrooms: A Critical World Englishes-Informed Pedagogy.- Promoting Multilingualism through Jamaican Creole in the Japanese EFL Classroom: Jamaican Educators' Attitudes and Experiences.- Harnessing the Power of Language: Enhancing TESOL Classrooms through Linguistic Landscape.- Articulating Capillary Power through Humoristic Translanguaging: A Case Study on Sociolinguistics as a Multilingual TESOL Course.- Granting Agency: Re-constructing Power ‘for’ and ‘with’ Australian Aboriginal EAL/D Learners.- Tracing the Power in Multilingual Teacher and Learner Identity Construction.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Methodology.- Literature Review.- The Grammaticalization Chain Causative Comitative Conjunction.- Grammaticalization Chain Two Adverb Comitative Conjunction.- Conclusion.- Appendix.

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Book SynopsisThe Major Debate on Chinese sentential subject and object in the 1950s.- The possessor-subject and possessum-object (PSPO) sentence and the splitting analysis of the possessive phrase.- An analytic approach based on movement.- Unaccusative Theory and related theories.- A synthetic approach based on construction and speaker empathy.- A constructional view of the Wangmian sentence and its discourse functions.- Conceptual blending and speaker empathy.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What is Arabic?.- Chapter 3. Background of the problem.

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