This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints,...

This volume provides an up-to-date survey of the field of corpus linguistics, a field whose methodology has revolutionized much of the empirical work done in most fields of linguistic study over the past decade.

Corpus linguistics investigates human language by starting out from large collections of texts - spoken, written, or recorded. These language corpora, which are now regularly available in electronic form, are the basis for quantitative and qualitative research on almost any question of linguistic interest. Many techniques that are in use in corpus linguistics today are...

Rhetorik und Stilistik befassen sich mit erfolgreicher menschlicher Kommunikation und mit der Gestaltung von Sprache in Texten. Als wirkungsmachtigste der sprachbezogenen Disziplinen reicht die Rhetorik bis in die Antike zuruck und erlebt zurzeit eine auergewohnliche Renaissance. Die Stilistik untersucht die Gestalt von Texten im Hinblick auf ihr Sinnangebot und ihre Funktion im individuellen Leben und gesellschaftlichen Raum. Das Handbuch bietet historische und systematische Uberblicke uber theoretische Positionen, Formen der Anwendung und praktische Kontexte von der Antike bis in die...