Oxford Handbook of Expressivity

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ISBN13: 9780198869450

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 25/12/2025

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This handbook offers a detailed and wide-ranging account of expressivity, the essential property that allows natural language to not just describe something in the world, but to directly express or display the speaker's attitudes or emotions. Following the editors' introduction, which outlines the expressive turn in linguistics, the volume is divided into five parts. Part I lays out the historical background and foundations of expressivity in philology, philosophy, semiotics, and rhetoric, before Part II shows how it plays a major role in all linguistic domains, fields of research, and frameworks, from syntax and semantics to corpus linguistics and neurolinguistics. Chapters in Part III explore specific linguistic phenomena such as slurs, interjections, honorifics, and metaphor, while those in Part IV show how the concept of expressivity is valuable in domains beyond traditional linguistic boundaries, including in pedagogy, law, and music. Finally, Part V presents a cross-linguistic perspective, revealing how expressivity manifests differently across a range of languages, from French and German to Japanese and Mandarin. Providing critical surveys of existing research as well as new insights and innovative perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity will be an indispensable resource for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.
1: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay: Expressivity: An introduction Part I. Background and foundations 2: Laurence R. Horn: Expressivity in early philosophy and philology 3: Thorsten Sander: Expressivity in modern philosophy of language 4: Robert E. Innis: Expressivity in semiotics 5: James Martin: Expressivity in rhetoric 6: Dorit Bar-On: Expressivity in and before language Part II. Linguistic domains 7: Michael Adams: Expressivity and the lexicon 8: Jeffrey P. Williams: Expressivity and morphology 9: Andrés Saab: Expressivity and syntax 10: Daniel Gutzmann: Expressivity and multidimensional semantics 11: Robert Henderson: Expressivity and dynamic semantics 12: Lukas Müller: Expressivity and semantic change 13: Maria Paola Tenchini and Aldo Frigerio: Expressivity and speech acts 14: Manuel Padilla Cruz: Expressivity and relevance theory 15: Rita Finkbeiner: Expressivity and construction grammar 16: Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski: Expressivity and discourse analysis 17: Mariia Pronina, Ingo Feldhausen, and Pilar Prieto: Expressivity and prosody 18: Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein and Lynne C. Nygaard: Expressivity and neurolinguistics 19: Filippo Domaneschi and Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos: Expressivity and psycholinguistics 20: Elizabeth Hanks, Niall Curry, Emily Sharp, Gavin Brookes, and Tony McEnery: Expressivity and corpus linguistics 21: Tatjana Scheffler: Expressivity and computational linguistics Part III. Linguistic phenomena 22: Fabian Bross: Expressivity and adjectives 23: Katharina Turgay: Expressivity and slurs 24: Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer: Expressivity and interjections 25: David Y. Oshima: Expressivity and honorifics 26: Patrícia Amaral: Expressivity and pronouns 27: Gerhard Schaden: Expressivity and vocatives 28: Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer: Expressivity and intensifiers 29: Andreas Trotzke: Expressivity and information structure 30: Christopher Davis: Expressivity and sentence types 31: Ad Foolen: Expressivity and metaphor Part IV. Further applications 32: Ariana N. Mohammadi: Expressivity and bilingualism 33: Andreas Trotzke: Expressivity and pedagogical linguistics 34: Stefan Hinterwimmer: Expressivity and perspectivity 35: Cornelia Ebert and Sebastian Walter: Expressivity and gestures 36: Patrick G. Grosz: Expressivity and emojis 37: Andreas Osterroth: Expressivity and the media 38: Patrik. N. Juslin: Expressivity and music 39: Katharina Felka and Andreas Stokke: Expressivity and lying 40: Elyse Methven: Expressivity and law 41: Andreas Triantafyllopoulos and Björn Schuller: Expressivity and speech synthesis Part V. Expressivity across languages 42: Daniel Gutzmann and Katharina Turgay: Expressivity in German 43: Pierre-Yves Modicom: Expressivity in French 44: Renato Miguel Basso and Luisandro Mendes de Souza: Expressivity in Brazilian Portuguese 45: Andrés Saab: Expressivity in Spanish 46: Marwan Jarrah and Sukayna Ali: Expressivity in Arabic 47: Nora Boneh: Expressivity in Modern Hebrew 48: Qiongpeng Luo: Expressivity in Chinese 49: Osamu Sawada: Expressivity in Japanese 50: Rachel Sutton-Spence and Donna Jo Napoli: Expressivity in sign languages
  • Philosophy of language
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Semantics & pragmatics
  • Professional & Vocational
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