The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitiv

This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based account

This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disc

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cogniti